Handmade Guatemalan Blue Tallit

This beautiful tallit is expertly handwoven on the backstrap loom by talented Mayan weavers. This tallit or prayer shawl is a great gift for your child's or grandchild's bar or bat mitzvah, or for anyone who has just embraced the tradition of wearing a tallit when they pray. Every tallit comes with hand-tied fringes or tzit-tzit. 

Crafted by Mayan Hands a fair-trade nonprofit organization dedicated to providing economic and educational opportunities to Mayan women and girls so that they can build sustainable futures for themselves, their families and communities, as they continue to live within the culture they cherish.  Today, Mayan Hands partners with more than 200 women artisans in 17 communities in the Guatemalan Highlands. Through your fair trade purchase of their fine handmade products, you too are connected to our remarkable artisan partners and support their quest to keep their rich cultural traditions alive.

Measures 22" wide by 70" long not including the tzit-tzit.