Slate Frames for Hand Embroidery We receive questions about slate frames for hand embroidery regularly. Slate frames are a bit of a mystery to many people, but to those who love doing fine hand embroidery, slate frames are an essential tool. And we all know that using the right tools leads to beautiful finished results. So what exactly is a slate frame? A slate frame is usually made of wood. In the example below, there are 2 main parts shown for the slate frame. The horizontal pieces are called the… Read more Slate Frames for Hand Embroidery →
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Custom Crafted Ordination Stoles for Pastors 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 pastor at a church is a special time for clergy. There are often special services that are planned in honor of the event. The ordination and installation service is a time when a new pastor gets to wear their first stole. In many churches, the vestment color for ordination and installation is red and… Read more Custom Crafted Ordination Stoles →
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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 comes up relates to traditional… Read more Traditional Church Vestment Sewing Patterns →
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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 a… Read more Advent Comes – City of David Collection →
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Concordia Theological Seminary Machine Embroidery Logo At Ecclesiastical Sewing, we have been working to create many new machine embroidery designs 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… Read more Concordia Theological Seminary Machine Embroidery Logo →
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Tapestry Fabrics for Vestments: How to Measure Pattern Repeats Tapestry Fabrics Tapestries – they are a thing of beauty, steeped in history reminding us of tales almost forgotten in the… Read more Tapestry Fabrics for Vestments: How to Measure Pattern Repeats →
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Blessed Virgin Mary Monogram and Stoles It rained today. It was as if the heavens shared our sorrow and cried tears of their own. Today a dear friend was laid… Read more Blessed Virgin Mary Monogram and Stoles →
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Embroidered Appliques: How to Apply Goldwork Pieces Designing a set of church vestments is a challenging endeavor. There are so many things to consider. When a decision is made on… Read more Embroidered Appliques: How to Apply Goldwork Pieces →
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Hand Embroidery Design for Altar Linens 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 for altar linens to share with you. It is perfect for use on altar linens such as purificators, corporals, labavos, fair linens, amice apparel, and vintage alb apparel too. The design consists of a border pattern and a scrollwork cross embroidery pattern. The border pattern comes from my collection of vintage embroidery designs. These vintage designs… Read more Hand Embroidery Design for Altar Linens →
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Pentecost Dove Emblem 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… Read more Pentecost Dove Emblem →
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Virgin and Child Goldwork Embroidery Design Vestment-making is a joy – at least for me. I can no longer imagine life without making church vestments. Starting and running a small… Read more Virgin and Child Goldwork Embroidery Design →
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Iron on cross Appliques 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… Read more Iron on Cross Appliques →
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More Quatrefoil Designs 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… Read more More Quatrefoil Designs →
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Needlework Sale 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… Read more Needlework Sale →
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Trellis Stitching Over Laid Silk Floss Deadlines can be a great motivator to wrap up a project. There will be a bit of midnight oil burned this weekend in… Read more Trellis Stitching Over Laid Silk Floss →
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