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Yet what informed the Bezalel project
certainly was an identification with the
idealism of the European Arts and
Crafts movement. It is this unique com-
bination of the ancient and the modern,
of East and West, that I find so inspiring
and relevant."
The project's carpet designs were
selected by Morrison and Felton and
advised by Rabbi Yosef Lange of Oak
Park, then sent to Woven Legends.
A carpet begins with a graph, which
maps out each detail of the design,
tinier than inch by inch. Because almost
no original graphs survive, Morrison,
Felton and Rabbi Lange advised
Woven Legends, who made the graphs.
The carpets were woven by hand, made
of tens of thousands of knots in Turkey,
still a "carpet empire," says Morrison.
He traveled to Turkey, where he met

with the men and women who raised
the sheep for the wool to be used in the
carpets, with those who dyed the wool
and the weavers themselves. "Re-creat-
ing just one of these is an extraordinari-
ly difficult project," Morrison says. "It's
time-consuming, detailed, technical,
very hard work."
The completed carpets include a
limited set of 100 first editions, with
seven designs in each set. A complete
set sells for $7,000, a portion of which
will go to tzedakah.
One of the first designs Morrison
selected to be reproduced, of course,
was Rachel's Tomb, pictured in the
first Jewish carpet he purchased. "The
art of Jewish carpets was lost with the
demise of Bezalel," says Morrison. "I
really wanted to share this unknown
aspect of Jewish artistic expression." ❑

The Morrison carpets will be for sale on the Internet and will be on display around the
country, including an exhibit at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park in November.
For information, log on to www.carpetsofjerusalem.com .

Morrison's Bezalel rug depicting Adam and Eve is among those reproduced for the
Carpets of Jerusalem project.

Stars of David, menorot and hamsot (hands that ward off the Evil Eye) adorn this rug
from Morrison's collection.

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