Liturgical Vestments: Ecclesiastical Sewing and Embroidery for Making Clergy Vestments
At Ecclesiastical Sewing, we specialize in offering a wide range of Liturgical Fabrics ranging from Brocades to Tapestries. Most of our fabrics are patterns and designs that have been around… Read more Something Special For Lent and Good Friday: Black Vestment Fabrics →
Tonight at church, the stripped altar will be adorned in black with six candles upon it and the seventh being the Paschal candle. The crucifix is already veiled, not to… Read more Good Friday 2017 and Stabat Mater Dolorosa →
The constructing Chalice veils has been a topic we’ve been looking at for the past few weeks on Ecclesiastical sewing. In the past, Chalice veils were made in the same… Read more Chalice Veil Orphrey Trim Part 2 →
Have you ever wondered or thought about using one of the beautiful Ecclesiastical Fabrics to make vestments for your church or parish? You may have looked at a few fabrics,… Read more Chalice Veil Orphreys →
Today is the beginning of the Lenten Season as we celebrate Ash Wednesday. The past few weekends have been spent working on an Ecclesiastical Sewing Project of a Black Chalice… Read more Finished at Last! Ash Wednesday Vestments →
Liturgical colors used for Ecclesiastical vestments and hangings can be a bit tricky. How are you able to tell the correct color to be used for the various days of… Read more Liturgical Colors for the Church Year →
As the New Year begins, so too must new Ecclesiastical Projects. Epiphany will be here in a few short days, and then it is only a few weeks until Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten Season. In preparing for Ash Wednesday, the black vestment set was reviewed. The altar and pulpit hangings are complete, and set awaits the completion of the chalice veil, burse, stole, chasuble and maniple to finish the low mass set. Although it would be wonderful to use the black chasuble on Ash Wednesday, that vestment… Read more Historical Use of Chasubles and History of Vestment →
Now that the topic of Lent has been broached a few times, it is too difficult to resist taking a quick glance at the Ash Wednesday-Good Friday Vestment Set waiting… Read more A Quick Glance Ahead to Lent →
This past Easter-Easter 2014-, a new set of Altar Hangings was created for my home church. This is a photo of the Ecclesiastical Sewing Project featuring a “Black Pulpit Fall”… Read more Good Friday Pulpit Fall →