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Category: Church Vestment Sewing Patterns and Books

Creating Your Own Church Vestments: A Fulfilling and Rewarding Experience

Sewing a vestment can be a fulfilling and rewarding experience, especially if you’re creating it for your own church or parish. But where do you start? Here are some tips to help you get started.

Choose a Pattern that Suits Your Skill Level

When it comes to sewing church vestments, it’s essential to choose a pattern that suits your skill level. Ecclesiastical Sewing offers a wide range of patterns for various types of vestments such as chasubles, stoles, and copes. With Ecclesiastical Sewing, you can find the appropriate pattern that will help you create beautiful and meaningful vestments for your church.

Enhance Your Skills with Vintage Books

In addition to patterns, there are many vintage books available that could help you enhance your sewing and embroidery skills, specifically for creating different types of vestments. Ecclesiastical Sewing is a great resource for reprinted books about vestment sewing and embroidery designs that provide detailed instructions and techniques to help you create beautiful and intricate vestments.

Choose High-Quality Fabrics

When it comes to materials, it’s important to choose quality fabrics, such as brocade, silk, linen, or wool. These fabrics are durable and will ensure that your vestment lasts for years.

You can also add decorative elements to your vestment, such as embroidery, lace, or appliques, to give it a unique and personal touch.

Thus, creating your own church vestment can be a rewarding experience that allows you to showcase your creativity and skills. With the right sewing patterns and books, you can create a vestment that is not only beautiful but also meaningful. So why not give it a try and see what you can create?

Church Linen Books

Altar Linens: Descriptions and Sizes

Altar linens serve distinct liturgical functions: Fair Linen covers the altar, Corporal holds vessels, Pall a square linen stiffened with either cardboard or plexiglass. Purificator a small square linen used to wipe the communion vessels during the sacrament, Lavabo Towel dries hands, Credence Cloth covers a side table, Chalice Veil conceals post-communion, Cere Cloth protects from dampness, Dust Cloth safeguards Fair Linen, and Sick Call Set facilitates individual communion.

Altar Linen Embroidery Design

Hand Embroidery Design Small Linens

The design is a simple cross with three rays in each corner between cross bars. The Altar Linen Embroidery Design is available in 4 sizes, for purificators, lavabos, corporal a, and even the corners of a fair linen.  This church linen embroidery design will use a few basic stitches such as the split stitch for an outline, and a stem stitch for the rays

Post Cards of Litany of Loreto Embroideries

Wish Lists Royal School of Needlework Style

Wishlist of the Royal School of Needlework for years, plans were cancelled by scheduling conflicts. Yet, browsing to their online store provided a silver lining. The Handbook of Embroidery catalog and some enticing embroidery While missing out the classes, the excitement of exploring these ecclesiastical embroidery treasures brings comfort.

Funeral Vestments

The Clergy presiding over the service wore matching cream-colored vestments with tapestry orphreys. Another clergy wore vestments such as surplices, dalmatic, tunic, and chasuble, according to their role and position within the church. Clergy robed in matching white chasubles lined the stairs to pay their last respects as the flag-draped coffin left the Cathedral

Silk Thread Color Card from Designs for Church Embroidery

Designs for Church Embroidery: an Original Copy

Author notes from original copy
– The color card at the beginning of the book has been inserted by the kind permission of Messrs. Liberty & Co., of Regent Street, London; and A. R. cannot say enough in praise of their colors and the Filo Floss silks sold by them.  Many of the colors, she says, are perfect; and this verdict is made after comparing them with many original pictures of the old masters in Italy and elsewhere – the shades of red, green, blue, and browns being spoken of with special praise.

Royal School of Needlework Exhibit

Royal School of Needlework Exhibit

The Royal School of Needlework has an exhibit titled:  ‘For Worship & Glory’ taking place at Chester Cathedral, 3 – 28 February 2016. The highlight of the exhibit is six pieces of the famous Litany of Lorento embroideries, which were donated to the Royal School by the nuns from the now-closed Convent of the Holy Child in Mayfield East Sussex. 

Installation of a New Pastor

Within the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, red is the traditional liturgical color to be worn for installation service.  And look at all of the lovely red stoles! Within our church body, it is tradition for pastors within the local circuit to attend the installation service of a brother pastor. At this installation service, there were a total of seventeen pastors vested in red stoles! There is a wealth and abundance in the variety of pastoral stoles.

Handbook for Altar Guilds

A Handbook for Altar Guilds by Lucy Vaughn Hayden Mackrille

The name of Lucy Vaughn Hayden Mackrille is well known by many involved in Ecclesiastical Sewing and the making of church vestments as the founder of the Washington Cathedral Altar Guild. Her book entitled Church Embroidery and Church Vestments is a valuable resource for seamstresses, providing detailed instructions for making many vestments.