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Conservation of a Torah Scroll Case from Djerba in Tunisia
This beautiful Torah Scroll Case was created in the late 19th or early 20th century. The design incorporates wood carvings, paintings and gilding. In the first stage of the conservation process, a non-original velvet layer and non-original paint layers that had been added over the intervening years were removed.
Missing parts of the structure were completed by carving and casting from a synthetic material, based on a three-dimensional copy of its existing parts. Finally, the velvet layer was completed and the original color decorations of the case were restored. The restored case is now on display at the Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art – Jerusalem.
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