Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts
Learn how to make your own Jewish fabric crafts with spiritual intention―venture into a world of creativity, imagination & inspiration.
Journey along with talented Jewish fabric craft artists from throughout the United States and Israel as they retrace their steps in the creative process used to make thirty evocative projects. Then tap into your inner creativity by following step-by-step instructions to fashion family heirlooms with your own personal flair. Inspirational and motivational, these projects and stories will resonate with your artistic soul and awaken a desire to hand-craft Jewish fabric keepsakes to pass down from generation to generation. Projects and techniques include:
Quilting • Appliqué • Embroidery • Needlepoint • Cross-stitch • Knitting • Crochet • Felting • Needle felting • Tallitot • Tallit bags • Torah mantles • Challah covers • Seder plate • Afikomen envelopes • Torah table (shulchan) covers • Tree of Life & shalom wall hangings • Purim puppets • And more!
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Book details
- Author
- Diana Drew
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Crafts & Hobbies › Needlework
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- Jewish crafts · fabric arts · quilting · embroidery · Judaism · spiritual creativity · family heirlooms · needlework
- ISBN-13
- 9781580234429 (Paperback)9781683361534 (Hardcover)
About the author
DIANA DREW is a former daily newspaper reporter, longtime book editor, and publicist with Stella Hart Public Relations in Randolph, New Jersey. She is the co-author of Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts, written with her husband, Robert Grayson.
Drew edited for Potter Craft, a division of Random House, and was a prize-winning newspaper reporter earlier in her career.
When she’s not writing, Drew serves as co-president of the National Council of Jewish Women, West Morris (NJ) Section. Her work on a quilted chuppah with fellow NCJW members inspired Jewish Threads.
Diana lives in northern New Jersey.