Linen sash embroidered in silk thread with allegorical motifs of the Torah and the chuppah (wedding canopy). The Hebrew inscription refers to the name of the donor, Abraham ben El-Hayyim Shelit (b. 1737). Sephardic Museum. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.

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