Liturgical Vestments: Ecclesiastical Sewing and Embroidery for Making Clergy Vestments
Graduation season will soon be upon us. As seminarians prepare for their upcoming ordination celebrations, we hope you will keep them in your prayers. Ordination and being installed as the… Read more Custom Crafted Ordination Stoles for Pastors →
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 →
Advent Collection City of David At long last, a new Ecclesiastical Sewing Advent Collection has come to life. Creating a new Liturgical Embroidery and Church Vestment Collection can be… Read more Advent Comes – City of David Collection →
At Ecclesiastical Sewing, we have been working to create many new machine embroidery design and will try to get those introduced as quickly as possible. The embroidery designs will include symbols, logos, whitework designs, and seasonal designs. One of the new logo designs is shown above. The Concordia Theological Seminary Logo is now available as a machine embroidery file to download. The file is suitable for use on jackets, bags, banners, and tippets! The size is 4″. Due to the detailed nature of the design, it does not translate as… Read more Concordia Theological Seminary Machine Embroidery Logo →
Tapestry fabrics Tapestries – they are a thing of beauty, steeped in history reminding us of tales almost forgotten in the recesses of the mind: of knights and chivalry and… Read more Tapestry Fabrics: How to Measure Pattern Repeats →
It rained today. It was as if the heavens shared our sorrow and cried tears of their own. Today a dear friend was laid in her eternal rest to await… Read more Blessed Virgin Mary Monogram and Stoles →
Designing a set of church vestments is a challenging endeavor. There are so many things to consider. When a decision is made on a set there is a sense of… Read more Embroidered Appliques: How to Apply Goldwork Pieces →
Are you ready to put your creativity to work? Here is a little something to enjoy. Today at Ecclesiastical Sewing, we have a lovely vintage hand embroidery design to share… Read more Hand Embroidery Design for Altar Linens →
In honor of the celebration of Pentecost, we thought you might enjoy a closer look at a lovely Dove goldwork emblem. May it always remind us of the fulfillment of… Read more Pentecost Dove Emblem →
Vestment making is a joy – at least for me. I can no longer imagine life without making church vestments. Starting and running a small business like Ecclesiastical Sewing is… Read more Virgin and Child Goldwork Embroidery Design →
Today, January 2nd, is a special day. There is a birthday in the Ecclesiastical Sewing family and a wedding anniversary. Although I will not say how old she is, Carrie… Read more Little Crosses: Appliques for use on Church Vestments and Pastoral Stoles →
Sometimes it seems as if an Ecclesiastical Sewing and Embroidery Project has many repeated tasks along the way before coming to a finish. And that can be a very good… Read more More Quatrefoil Designs →
Every morning, I look forward to that first glance at the day’s emails. There is always that bit of anticipation: what information is needed by someone, what information are others… Read more Needlework Sale →
Deadlines can be a great motivator to wrapping up a project. There will be a bit of midnight oil burned this weekend in the Studio here at Ecclesiastical Sewing trying… Read more Trellis Stitching Over Laid Silk Floss →
Vestments and Church Embroidery are most often viewed from a distance. When an embroidered design is placed on a vestment or an altar hanging, it may often become difficult to… Read more Outlining: Finishing Touch or Distraction →