REalization

[debka_notion]

I just realized- I really ought to put tzitzit on my poncho: as far as I can tell, it fulfills all the requirements for needing them. I haven't the foggiest where I take that, or the other practical matters involved. It should produce interesting comments though: the thing is darkish grey, with stripes over each shoulder. Not the sort of thing one usually sees with tzitzit. At all.

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

If tzitziot would be a problem, you can try to round a corner. Not sure if that helps.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Not so much a problem of having them, jsut that I don't know where I'd go to have them put on, and I have a feeling anyone who ties tzitzit would well, laugh at someone who brought in a poncho to have tzitzit put on it. TO whom does one bring such an item, anyways?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Well . . . I'd offer to do it myself, if I were in the area. The tying is not all that complicated a skill. The trick is making the holes into which to tie the strings. (That's probably not much of a trick either, but I know far more about knot tying than I do about sewing and the like. Does that make me male?)

I don't know of anyone who professionally ties tzitziot, per se, but I imagine that anyone who did would be perfectly happy to tie them to any garment that deserves them.

You can get the strings at any decent Judaica shop.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I think it's more a cultural result of your being male than the cause thereof. Making holes isn't too hard- it's like making button holes, which I don't have so much experience, but I can always experiment, as I know the general idea- I think it works out to: do the blanket stitch around the hole you make a lot.