Wood

Size: 4.9" x 1" x 0.4" / 12.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm

Fits scroll length: 3.9" / 10 cm

Have you ever seen such a beautiful colorful mezuzah case?  The design, featuring a cheerful Jerusalem motif, was hand-painted with a brush using acrylic colors and then lacquered.  Vivid and harmonious colors characterize the hand-painted wood.

Artist Yair Emanuel, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, lives and works in Jerusalem.  Vivid and harmonious colors as well as a mixture of the old and the new characterize Emanuel's work, which is designed and crafted in his Jerusalem studio.  The principal techniques utilized encompass painting on silk, hand-embroidery, raw-silk applique and painting on wood.