A tallit (טלית) is a fringed garment worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The cloth part is known as the beged ("garment") and is usually made from wool or cotton, although silk is sometimes used for a tallit gadol.
A white tallit according to some Sephardic traditions
A tallit with black stripes according to the Orthodox Ashkenazic tradition
A folded tallit
Tallit found at the House of Shimson Kleuger, Oświęcim
Tzitzit are specially knotted ritual fringes, or tassels, worn in antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans. Tzitzit are usually attached to the four corners of the tallit gadol, usually referred to simply as a tallit or tallis; and tallit katan. Through synecdoche, a tallit katan may be referred to as tzitzit.
Tzitzis
The all-white tzitzit is Ashkenazi. The blue and white tzitzit is knotted in the Sephardi style. Note the difference between the 7-8-11-13 scheme and uninterrupted windings (between the knots) on the Ashkenazi, vs. the 10-5-6-5 scheme and ridged winding on the Sephardi tzitzit.
Knitted arba kanfot with worn tzitzit (2 of 4), Basel, 1930s, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
A child's tzitzit attached to school shirt