Favorite Judaic (and Pomegranate) Needlework Sites

• 1-800-Dreidel is both the name and the phone number of this Los Angeles-based company dedicated to making those hard-to-find Judaic craft supplies and fabrics available.
  
• African Folklore Embroidery an online catalog which includes a Judaic Collection of surface embroidery tallit bags, matzo covers, and challah covers as well as African yarmulke designs.
  
• American Needlepoint Art & Design, Inc. an online catalog which includes a Judaic Collection on painted canvases, and additional pieces are in the Kid's Corner and other sections.
  
• Art Needlepoint a full-service online shop for needlepoint canvases and kits. Their catalog includes Flora Rosefsky's designs as part of their growing Judaic collection.
  
• Avodat Yad specializing in charts and kits of Judaic designs. The founders are long-time guild members.
  
• Batts in the Attic carries several Jewish quilt and wall hanging patterns.
  
• Blackwork Embroidery Archives has some wonderful charted pomegranates both on their Pomegranates page and on their Flowers & Fruit page.
  
• The Caron Collection features designer profiles and gorgeous free charts. Did you know that Watercolours and Wildflowers come in Pomegranate?
  
• The Crafty Needle now under new ownership, this catalog is focused exclusively on Judaic designs. It has the biggest selection of needlepoint Tallis bags and other projects for lifecycle events and holidays. Sale items and specials change every month
  
• Dutch Treat Designs features the cross-stitch and perforated paper designs of Claudia Dutcher. Her cross stitched tabletoppers include a Shabbat design, an apple design (perfect for Rosh Hashanah) and two grape designs (perfect for Passover).
  
• eQuilter.com offers several Judaic fabrics. To access them, enter judaic (without quotes) in the search box on the top left-hand side of the page, then click "go".
  
• Fabric Paradise featuring a large selection of Judaic fabrics in their Judaic & Chanukah category
  
• Fancy Delancy specializes in hard-to-find Judaic fabrics (36 different designs at last count!) and patterns for Jewish-themed quilts. Their website is now live and is hosted by MileChai.com. As before, this company is a labor of love -- all profits are donated to charity.
  
• Finding Katy: A Memoir a book and a website by guild member Kay Faye Fialkoff. The collection of 28 short stories relate the theme of needle and thread carried by her grandfather and father from Russia to the United States as a result of escaping the 1905 pogroms, and what influences brought her to use needle and thread to create her needlework series, Prayers for the Earth. Prayers for the Earth, when complete, will be a series of 12 large-scale crewel embroideries celebrating wetlands, meadowlands, and woodlands. A recent EGA Needle Arts article is included on the site - in the "Publications" - section which shows more of Kay's needlework series.
  
• Florage® story quilts and Judaic artwork by guild member Flora Rosefsky
  
• Ginger's Needlework and Quilting featuring several Jewish Holiday quilt patterns.
  
• Growing Up Jewish is Ruth Shapiro's jewelry site and includes mezuzot, pins, tallit clips, and other hand-crafted items. Ruth is a guild member and has designed the Pomegranate logo jewelry once featured on the back cover of The Paper Pomegranate. Ruth will donate a percentage of sales to the guild as long as orders were identified as being from the Pomegranate Guild at the time they are placed.
  
• Hebrew Art features the designs of artist Adam Rhine. Many are available as prints or in a wonderful Judaic calendar, and a handful are available as needlepoint canvases. Watch for cross stitch charts coming soon.
  
• Jewish People has a nice selection of Judaic quilting prints for sale online. Does not accept credit cards, but will accept PayPal.
  
• Judaic Crafts is a Milledgeville, Georgia shop specializing in judaic cross stitch and hand painted needlepoint canvases.
  
• JudaiQuilt.com a site once known as JewishQuilter.com, loaded with great pictures and loads of inspiration and quilting ideas.
  
• Judaic Crafts à Chez Alaine features charted Hebrew aleph bets and an assortment of links and ideas.
  
• Kooler Design Studio includes several lovely Judaic designs in their catalog.
  
• The Magic Needle features hand painted needlepoint designs available as canvases or kits.
  
• Melton Arts an education-oriented site devoted to "learning Judaism through the arts" Includes links to current exhibits.
  
• Morashah Needle Arts A needlework design company focusing on Judaic themes, folk art and mystical numbers.
  
• Oy Vey! Quilt Designs features hard-to-find Judaic quilt patterns.
  
• The Six Million Stitches Project was started by Pomegranate Guild member RitaNeedle (Rita Lenkin Hawkins z"l), to commemorate and honor Holocaust victims, survivors, and those people who risked their lives to save other lives during that time. She did not live to see it come to fruition, but the projects is now dedicated in her memory. Several Pomegranate members have contributed to this project.
  
• The Skinner Sisters designers and teachers specializing in charts and books on historic embroidery including band samplers, blackwork, and Assisi work. Several pomegranate designs are available, including a band sampler commissioned for the Pomegranate Guild.
  
• Women in Judaism: Contemporary Writings a wonderful research site with articles on a variety of topics. Of special interest to guild members would be the article on the history of women wearing and making tallitot.
  

Updated December 19, 2007

Chai canvas image provided with the kind permission of Adam Rhine.