Liturgical Vestments: Ecclesiastical Sewing and Embroidery for Making Clergy Vestments
Here at Ecclesiastical Sewing, we’re always happy to make stoles for our customers. After all, these are arguably the most important vestments for pastors and priests. They’re worn with preaching… Read more Top 10 materials for DIY stole making →
We know many churches would love to have new vestments or altar hangings. But for many churches, the ideas never go beyond being an idea. Creating church vestments is often… Read more Sewing Church Vestments and Linens: 10 Tips for Success →
Lent Stoles for Pastors and Priests The designer (that’s ME – Carrie) has been busy keeping our seamstresses stitching away to create a wonderful new collection of stoles that are… Read more Do you have your favorite Violet Stole Style Selected Yet? Lent is coming! →
How often do you look through Church Vestment Catalogs or at Vestments online and think, “If only I could make a chasuble like that! It can’t be that difficult, but… Read more Top 5 Tips for Sewing Perfect Chasuble Orphrey Bands →
A few days back we were talking about Traditional Church Vestment patterns and the conversation centered around the chasuble pattern. Today, we are going to review clergy stole patterns. We… Read more Top Five Traditional Clergy Stole Patterns for Church Vestment →
We receive a lot of emails from our readers in the Ecclesiastical Sewing Studio. One of the questions that frequently come up relates to church vestment pattern or patterns for… Read more Traditional Church Vestment Sewing Patterns →
Ecclesiastical Sewing offered the widest range of patterns for those interested in creating their own church vestments, or for those needing patterns for their seamstresses who are making church vestments.… Read more Traditional Linen Alb Priest Vestment Sewing Pattern →
Church vestments come in all sizes from small to extra-large. Just as we find in the ready-to-wear fashion market, the hope is the existing size ranges will provide something that… Read more Custom Sized Church Vestments →
A few days ago the Ecclesiastical Sewing Studio announced the release of three new Latin Mass Chasuble sewing patterns. The chasuble patterns have lots of design details with crosses and… Read more Creating Orphrey Bands for Church Vestments →
Church Vestment Making Classes In a few short weeks to go, there is still time to sign up for the Liturgical Arts Conference in Canton, MS. The conference has a… Read more It’s Not Too Late – Vestment Making Class →
Clergy Stoles and Priest Chasubles – When standard sizes don’t fit Pastors and priests come in all sizes from petite to very tall, with many variations in between. Yet all… Read more How to Determine the Correct Stole length →
New things often cause fear in the hearts of many people. Yet once we get past the fear, we realize how simple things can be. And what was once feared… Read more Stole Making: A Little Encouragement →
Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing the various chasuble patterns and styles available at Ecclesiastical Sewing. This next chasuble pattern is one that I refer to as… Read more Gothic Chasuble with Column Orphrey Bands →
Churches come in all types and sizes. There are the grand Cathedral and Basilicas. And the humble mission church with everything in between. With such a wide array of churches… Read more Monastic Chasuble Pattern for Making Church Vestments →
I remember making my first chasuble over 30 some years ago. There was nothing available for a chasuble pattern at that time. The only thing I could use for a… Read more Chasuble Patterns for Making Church Vestments →