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[lethargic_man]

During my time in Jerusalem, I must have looked at every shop selling capels in Ben-Yehuda Street, and many of those in the Old City too; I must have looked at over a thousand capels, but still couldn't find one I liked.

Yes, I'm fussy. I don't want something so traditional it looks like I'm a three-times a year shulgoer; I don't think Yemenite style capels suit me; I don't really like knitted capels; I don't want anything which could be misinterpreted as implying anything it isn't, and I want something big, because big capels stay on your head, even in a breeze, without the need for a hair clip. In short, I want something like the blue capel I got in the Old City in 1992, and which half of my acquaintance has been trying to get me to get rid of in the last few years.

So in the end I gave up, and spent this evening starting the process of making one myself from the lining of an old jacket. It's going to look a bit odd, because I'm hopeless with my hands, and have never done this before, but I don't think it's going to look completely unwearable. (It's crimson—would wearing a crimson skullcap be a cardinal sin? <ducks>)

The question is whether those who have been trying to get me to throw away my blue one will think it's an improvement or not.

Comments

[wub.livejournal.com]

Why do people want you to throw away the blue one? It reminded me one the kippa that came with my Emmanuel talit. I guess the only odd thing I thought about it was that it looked a lot like one of the big silk kippot that a lot of Jews that don't go to shul too often end up wearing... *shrug* If you like it, that's what matters.

Why do you call it a capel? I've never heard that before...

Are you basically looking for one made of cloth, like the blue one? There are people out there that make kippot, you know. :) I'm not saying I'm one of them but I do have a beautiful, handmade kippa that is made out of pieces of raw silk cloth (you can see it in this picture: http://www.ringworld.org/~wub/pics/Talit/DSCF0363.JPG on the lower left--green around the edge, gold with an orangish star of david). This friend that made it also makes ones that look more plain.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Why do people want you to throw away the blue one?

Because it's getting old and tatty. It doesn't look too bad at the moment, but I keep having to trim off the fraying edges...

Why do you call it a capel?

Because that's what I grew up calling it.

I've never heard that before...

Fairly obviously, it's Yiddish for "little cap".