Four-cornered blue garment with tzitzith (detached) and visible hand-stiching. Each corner pocketed to encase fringes. 29 x 10 inches. Worn.

One of the distinctive features of Jewish male dress, tzitzit - or fringes - is based on the Biblical commandment to make twisted cords on the four corners of one’s garment (see Numbers 15:38 and Deut. 22:12). <<Scarce to find items of religious dress for a Jewish child of the 19th-century.>>