These are Hand Spun and Dyed Tzitzit made by Strange Fire Offerings! These come cut to length and you tie your own! Add the Zine for hand-drawn instructions and more information about the makers and materials.
You can choose from two color options:
Option one: Chocolate Brown Main Strings with Indigo Blue Shamash
Chocolate Brown Main Strings: 1 yard (36") of Perendale wool in its natural color sourced from an Anti-Zionist Jewish shepherd located in Northern California. Indigo Blue Shamash: 2 yards (72") of Navajo Churro wool sourced from Irene Bennalley, a Diné shepherd located in New Mexico, and hand dyed with indigo grown on Northern Pomo land in California. Total length: 20 yds (12 main strings, 4 shamash strings), 2 Ply
Option two: White Main Strings with Indigo Blue Shamash
White Main Strings: 1 yard (36") of Navajo Churro wool in its natural color plyed with pink avocado-dyed wool, sourced from Irene Bennalley, a Diné shepherd located in New Mexico WITH Indigo Blue Shamash: 2 yards (72") Navajo Churro wool sourced from Irene Bennalley, a Diné shepherd located in New Mexico, and hand dyed with indigo grown on Northern Pomo land in California. Total length: 20 yds (12 main strings, 4 shamash strings), 2 Ply
About the Tzitzit Tying Zine:
The Tzitzit tying guide has hand drawn instructions for Sephardic Tallit Katan, and Ashkenazi Tallit Gadol tying styles drawn by Anshl B. It also holds art, stories, and prayers from the makers, shepherds, and sheep that contributed to these tzitzit.
$5 from each zine sale goes to Roots of Resilience, an organization supporting West Bank farmers, preserving food systems, and advocating for Palestinian food sovereignty through mutual aid, education and solidarity.
About Strange Fire:
Strange Fire follows in the spirit of Nadab and Abihu with sacred offerings of Judaica, land stewardship, seed saving and fiber arts workshops that honor spirit through a deep relationship to the more than human world.
Strange Fire primarily serves queer and trans Jews that live on the fringes of diaspora on Turtle Island, reject genocide of Palestinians, and pray with their hands and hearts for the collective liberation of Indigenous Lands and Peoples and sovereignty for all lands and beings. At least 18% of our income goes to mutual aid – emergent Ukiah community needs, Palestinian land defenders, shepherds and farmers, and local tribal stewardship and wildfire resilience projects.
Shai Schnall (they/he) is a genderfull Ashkenazi Jewish ritualist and land tender. They find connection to the other than human world in relationship to sheep, fire resiliency, and art as a sacred practice. Shai is a shepherd, shearer, and Jewish educator/spiritual leader that specializes in trans rite of passage for all ages. They dreamed this project into existence as a way to offer Jewish mysticism as an offering to olam haba–the world to come.
