Quilled Mezuzah case
Today we celebrate the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, so I wanted to show a new Judaic item I've created. It's something completely different this time — a quilled Mezuzah case.
A mezuzah (Hebrew: מְזוּזָה) is a piece of parchment inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah. Such a piece is put in a decorative case and mounted on a doorjamb/doorpost. Designing and producing Mezuzah cases has become an art form. An endless variety of materials are used for Mezuzot, although I think mine is the first one made of rolled paper.
The bottom part (the base) of my case is made of paper strips 1/8"-wide (3mm), while for the case itself I used 1/16"-wide strips (1.5mm). The case bears the letter "Shin" on its front, which is made of quilling paper strips with a gilded edge. The case is hard enough to be used for its purpose, indoors however. Its size is about 6 inches (15.3 cm).
חג שבועות שמח!
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QUILLING BY MARIUS
www.quilling-mv.blogspot.com
Paula
Congratulations!
Beautiful work. In every little piece of quilling observe the delicacy of his hand the paper to produce the various forms of art and create the Mezuzah.
Good holiday!
Greetings Baukje
QUILLING BY MARIUS
very nice work, congrats
karin
-amrita
Suzana
P.S. Перевела пост через гугл - " гофрированный медуз" - Quilled Mezuzah, обьясни коротко на русском, что это такая за "штучка"??, пожалуйста!!!!!! СПАСИБО)))))) КРАСИВО!!!!!!!!
Девочки, спасибо большое за ваши теплые комментарии!
Лариса, написала вам мейл, да, "гофрированный медуз" - смешно получилось :)
Parabéns!
@Sarika Chowdhery Sharma,
it took about a week.