Slate Frames for Hand Embroidery
Slate Frames for Hand Embroidery We receive questions about slate frames regularly. Slate frames are a bit of a mystery to many people, but to those who love doing… Read more Slate Frames for Hand Embroidery →
Top 10 materials for DIY stole making
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 →
St. Philip and St. James and New Apostle Pastor Stole!
Feast Day of St. James and St. Philip On May 1st, we celebrated the feast days of St. Philip and St. James the Apostles in the Lutheran Church, and today… Read more St. Philip and St. James and New Apostle Pastor Stole! →
Traditional Church Vestment Sewing Patterns
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 →
How to prepare fabric for Machine Embroidery
For today’s post, I want to share a sewing technique with everyone. We have been plugging away at our product development here at Ecclesiastical Sewing. (Have you been following the… Read more How to prepare fabric for Machine Embroidery →
October 11th–Philip the Deacon
I wanted to mention that today we celebrate the feast day of one of the first deacons, the deacon Philip. The office of the deacon was the first auxiliary office in the church. It was established by the apostles in the very early days of the church. Deacons are the helpers of the church; their job is to be assistants to the priests, ministers, and pastors. As well as being assistants to the ministers, the deacons serve the congregations. In the early days of the church, seven deacons were chosen… Read more October 11th–Philip the Deacon →
Wardrobes for Clergy: Liturgical Vestments and Pastoral Stoles
The wardrobe of a member of the clergy is vast. Hopefully your clergy has the basic liturgical wardrobe pieces but if they do not, it is the job of the… Read more Wardrobes for Clergy: Liturgical Vestments and Pastoral Stoles →
Sir Ninian Comper: Ecclesiastical Embroidery Designer
A man should, from his youth, seek for forms which are beautiful. At first he should love but one of them; then recognize the beauty which resides in one as the sister of that which dwells in another. Philosophy helps, from Plato onwards, because it puts beauty in the right place as one of the three eternal values equal with truth and goodness so that what applies to one of them is true of the others.’ – Sir Ninian Comper (Symunson & Bucknall, 2006, p.19) Beauty is something that is… Read more Sir Ninian Comper: Ecclesiastical Embroidery Designer →
Liturgical Embroidery Designs Phase 2
Summer is so shorted lived in Minnesota. It is hard to be inside working on the Liturgical Embroidery Designs when the sky is sunny, and the evenings are pleasant. Of… Read more Liturgical Embroidery Designs Phase 2 →
Altar Linen Projects – Beginnings
Altar Linen Hand Embroidery Designs have been floating all over the place recently in the Ecclesiastical Sewing Studio. The designs all come from a collection of vintage perforated patterns that… Read more Altar Linen Projects – Beginnings →
Beautiful Sacred Vestment Videos
It is only Tuesday, but with no downtime over the weekend, I do not have much energy tonight to tackle Ecclesiastical Embroidery projects. I know I will pay dearly for not being productive this evening, but sometimes that is the way things go. In the meantime, a few moments were spent relaxing and refreshing with a few very nice videos on Sacred Vestments found on You Tube: While watching the first Sacred Vestment video, at 0:26 seconds, pay close attention to the Red fabric used for the chasuble and stole. The… Read more Beautiful Sacred Vestment Videos →
Quatrefoil Ecclesiastical Design
After running the weekend errands, it was time to get to work on the next Ecclesiastical Embroidery Project. And I could hardly wait. The hard part was the time it took to press several pieces of silk dupioni. Sometimes silk gets creased if it has not been carefully rolled back on a tube or a bolt from the fabric store. And such was the case today………….tough creases that would not release, regardless of the various methods employed. But this process would lead to the next process of applying the Ecclesiastical… Read more Quatrefoil Ecclesiastical Design →
Musée de la Visitation Exhibit 2015
Are you on the lookout for summer or fall travel destinations? If Ecclesiastical Vestments, featuring fabulous examples of Ecclesiastical Embroidery are on your travel itinerary, a stop in France at… Read more Musée de la Visitation Exhibit 2015 →
A Fun Experiment with Machine Embroidery
I am amazed at the wide variety of possibilities available to enhance Ecclesiastical Sewing. My all time favorite method of embellishment for Ecclesiastical Sewing is of course hand embroidery with… Read more A Fun Experiment with Machine Embroidery →
The Process of Making Vintage Embroidery Patterns Usable
Treasure hunting can be a great deal of fun, especially if you actual stumble across a bit of treasure. Treasure can be a wide variety of things to many people.… Read more The Process of Making Vintage Embroidery Patterns Usable →