A very messy, mostly unsorted collection of menorah images to stimulate thinking about shape and decoration of knitted menorot.
Historic Jewish needlework
Hamsa (almost modern) (1, 2, 3)
bobbles strategically placed?(inspirated from jewelry)
ark, ship (1, 2, 3) arks (1, 2, 3), Noah’s ark
Yemenite stone 19th c
romp through the online collection (available ebay) of Pasarel Israel Art and Treasures
flat row of holders with small or large decorated backplate, on separate stems (difficult to knit), individual feet or shaped base, a box base (as on antique travel menorah, or this), triangular backplate, here also, or a circular ronde, octagonal wall plate
Mosaic tablets, menorot, flower design, lions (on parade, winged), deer, peacocks, doves, sheltering eagle, also here, more birds, hamsa hands, Italianate cherubs, paradaisical combinations, ner tamid flame, this
with feet, or without
soldiers holding the torch shaped candle sockets in their right hands and in their left hands are shields.
olive branch frame or halo, TikkunArts › Edit — WordPress
and other art deco examples (1, 2, 3, 4)
lions, peacocks, deer
lions primitive and elaborate
foliage on menorah from the 18th c
Dutch heart versions
charioteer sculpture – soldier holding helper 1950 … nationalistic, militarist imagery
house? N african palace
winged lions grapes
Lions protecting Torah tablets
grape vines
ten commandments – backplate = tablets
relief of Jerusalem (geography)
pierced, lattice-work (opportunity for openwork) again
pictorial (1, 2)
No Africand fish & anchor – nautical
doves
more lions (with lattice work design)
paradaisical combination of all, Russian silver
primitive Moroccan brass versions
hamsa again
pre-independence examples, with children and flowers, or animals
pre-deco (??) roses holders , or pitcher holders
so so simple North African examples (1, 2, 3)
scalloped base (1, 2), square base, ribbed base
menorah decoration? tree of life
cherubs, lions, peacocks,
ornamentation drawn from Italian tradtion, converted to brass
magen david on art deco back, or invoked in the shape of the base
