Wise Hearted Women

Relaxing on portly furniture, Abraham brought us Turkish "apple" tea in small clear glasses.  While carefully sipping the hot tea we received an astonishing demonstration of rugs.

With all the splendor of a choreographed dance, the men spun the carpet in the air to reveal the breath-taking colors and patterns of these fine tapestries.

Carpets hand made from silk, wool, and cotton were dyed and woven with the same technique that had been used for thousands of years.  With expertise these women would spin silk and tie intricate rugs in the traditional turkish double knot.  This painstaking process takes a year for a master weaver to complete a three foot section of a silk rug.

I imagined this same beauty and craftsmanship brought to Moses for the tabernacle.

"And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen."  - Exodus 35:25