Tzitzit Project is a community-based initiative dedicated to expanding Jewish spiritual practice with an inclusive design approach to a traditional ritual garment—the tallit katan.
UPDATE: On January 7, 2025 our beloved co-founder Jill Spector lost her home in the devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena, CA. The fire destroyed all of our remaining inventory and textiles for future production. This profound loss has naturally shifted our focus, opening space for reflection, healing, and reimagining the next phase of Tzitzit Project.
Tzitzit Project was born in 2021 out of joy and a yearning to reconnect—with ritual, with ourselves, and with one another. Over these past few years, it's been an honor to collaborate with brilliant Jewish artists and makers, and to serve a growing community seeking spiritual practice rooted in queerness, healing, and justice. We’ve always believed in the power of tzitzit as both ancestral technology and a creative, inclusive expression of Jewish life.
We are no longer producing new inventory. However, we are interested in passing on Tzitzit Project as a business. If you or someone you know might be interested in taking on this work, please reach out. We would love to be in conversation.
What are tzitzit?
You shall make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
Tzitzit are the fringes traditionally worn on a four-cornered undershirt to remind one of the divine presence in daily life. Though historically wearing tzitzit has been a ritual practiced by Orthodox cis-men, halacha (Jewish law) does not bar women or gender non-conforming Jews from wearing tzitzit.
In ancient times, garments often consisted of simple rectangular cloths with four corners, in which tzitzit were easily tied. Since we no longer wear four-cornered garments, a special garment known as a tallit katan, also referred to as tzitzit, is now worn in order to fulfill this mitzvah.
