Maskit

The Hebrew word "maskit," meaning an ornament, or something small and beautiful, appears in the Bible 14 times.

[1] During the early years of the state of Israel, Ruth Dayan recognized the artistic skills of many new immigrants, particularly in decorative arts like embroidery and crafts.

In 1954, she established Maskit with the aim of blending modern European patterns with ethnic embroidery traditions.

It was not just the Yemenite embroidery, she said, but the "range of colors - the desert brown, the impure black inspired by Bedouin tents, and the eternally changing blue of the Mediterranean."

One of the investors was Israeli businessman Stef Wertheimer, founder of the industrial tool manufacturer Iscar.