Leshem Yichud tefillin card

Laser-engraved wood

Engrave the black and cut the red line from 3 mm (⅛″) maple or birch ply. Dark text on pale wood, no colour changes, and the pocket text stays sharp because a laser has no nozzle to round it off. Seal with a wipe of oil or wax so hands don't grey it.

Epilog Fusion Edge

bed up to 12 × 24″ (305 × 610 mm), 6.5″ thick

Glowforge Pro HD

40–45 W, up to 18 × 10″ (457 × 254 mm); over ½″ needs staff OK

All three sizes fit both.

Clear acrylic, engraved from behind

Put 3 mm clear cast acrylic in face down and run the mirrored SVG: the frosted letters read the right way round through the sheet and the front stays glossy. Brush white or gold acrylic paint into the engraving from the back for colour. Looks best on the stand, in front of a window.

Acrylic is approved on both lasers. Self-adhesive mirror acrylic is not: the Glowforge allows nothing with an adhesive backing, so cut the back mirror by hand as above.

Leather, for the tefillin bag

Engrave the pocket size onto 2–3 mm vegetable-tanned leather. It bends instead of snapping, rides in the bag for years, and darkens nicely with use. Genuine leather is approved on both lasers; the Epilog list says leather is engrave only, so cut the outline with a knife and steel rule, or cut it on the Glowforge.

Not faux leather or PVC: vinyl gives off chlorine under a laser.

Slate or glass plaque

Engrave the display size (160 × 230 mm) onto a slate tile or a glass panel, with no cut line. Slate engraves pale grey on near-black, a close cousin of the navy card; glass frosts. Both are on the approved lists for both lasers. A kitchen-store slate cheese board fits the Glowforge.

For glass, cover the area with a damp paper towel or dish soap first for an even frost.

Vinyl: sticker or iron-on

Import the display SVG into Cricut Design Space or Silhouette Studio, hide the red outline and cut the black. Gold permanent vinyl goes on a tefillin box lid, a shtender or a bag's inner flap; iron-on (HTV) in gold goes on a canvas or cotton tallis-and-tefillin bag, pressed with the heat press. Mirror the design for HTV.

Cutters

Cricut Explore Air 2, Cricut Explore 5, Silhouette Cameo (about 11.5–12″ wide)

Heat press

LOKLiK auto, 15 × 15″

Only the display size: its 5 mm letters are about the smallest you can weed with nikkud. The smaller sizes' dots fall off the mat.

Embroidered bag

The full paragraph is too fine to stitch, but the title הֲנָחַת תְּפִלִּין, the shin in its box and a name stitch beautifully on a tefillin bag. The Janome can digitize artwork, so trace the top and bottom of the card from the SVG.

Janome MC 500E

hoop up to 200 × 280 mm (7.9 × 11″), digitizes artwork

Brother NQ1700E

hoop up to 160 × 260 mm (6.25 × 10.25″)

Approved fabrics

cotton, canvas, denim, felt, faux fur, silk, suede and leather (≤ ⅛″)

Velvet, the classic tefillin-bag fabric, isn't on the list; use felt or canvas, or ask staff.

A free library 3D print

The Studio prints for free on a Bambu X1C, but in one colour of PLA it picks, from a single STL, at most two hours a job and two jobs a month. So send the one-colour STL below: the text still stands out in relief, and you can paint the raised letters later with a dry-brushed gold or white.

Bed 240 × 215 × 240 mm. The display card (≈ 2 h 20 m) runs over the two-hour limit; staff may scale it down. Allow 1–2 weeks.

Laminated paper card

The quickest version: print the SVG at 100% on heavy cardstock (gold or ivory), trim on the red line and laminate. Lasts a year or two in a bag, costs nearly nothing, and you can make a dozen for a bar mitzvah class.

The Studio laminator takes up to 11 × 17″, so a sheet of four standard cards goes through in one pass.