Jewish tartan?

[kiltimabar]

HISTORY or HOLLYWOOD? (Almost certainly the latter)

Seeing "The Ten Commandments" some years ago, I remember one of the plot devices was a piece of distinctively striped cloth, wrapping the infant Moses in his basket which was set upon the river and found by Pharaoh's daughter. After growing up as her son, he was revealed to be a Hebrew because of this particular cloth; in fact I believe the story was that it was a design of one particular tribe of Israel.

Now, is there any historic basis for particular cloth design identifying tribes of Israel? I know there are prayer shawls and such with striped designs. Even if the cloth had stripes only one way, when woven both ways that would create a tartan, or a basis for further refinement of the design.

Though the "Moses Tartan'' is surely only a figment of Hollywood imagination, it could still be made into a tartan. Many of the present clan tartans, derived from the 'Vestiarium Scoticum', have no more legitimacy than that.

[auld argonian]

...did you mean something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B000EACDNS

...this is a simple one...an internet search will turn up lots of very decorative Tallit...so decorative that who needs tartan?

Best

AA