Adventures in Sewing for the Church and Vestment Making
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Altar Linens
Altar Linen Refresher Altar linens are items that usually go unnoticed by most parishioners. The care of linens Often altars are bare of having linens, or altars have worn and...
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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…...
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Creating Orphrey Bands for Church Vestments
A few days ago the Ecclesiastical Sewing Studio announced the release of three new Latin Mass Chasuble sewing patterns. The chasuble patterns have lots of design details with crosses and…...
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Concordia Theological Seminary Machine Embroidery Logo
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...
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What is a Monastic Style Chasuble?
What is a Monastic Style Chasuble? A Monastic style chasuble is a fuller and longer chasuble style. It can be between 60 to 80″ wide and is usually a…...
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Tapestry Fabrics: 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 recesses of the mind: of knights and chivalry and…...
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Red and Gold Liturgical Brocade Fabrics
Ecclesiastical Sewing recently had a very special project in the works. When an idea takes root and begins to turn into a project I have the joy and privilege of…...
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The Rose of the Lutherans
On Sunday, the Protestant Church remembers the death of one of her most beloved Saints. Martin Luther died February 18th, 1546. I have been interested in flowers and greenery…...
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How to Match Patterns using Violet Ely Crown Liturgical Fabric
Violet – when we mention that color a host of images may come to mind. I often think of beautiful summer days hiking under clear blue skies in the beauty…...
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Luther Rose Liturgical Brocade Church Vestment Fabric
Sometimes words escape us. We don’t know what to say, but our hearts are full of gratitude for the blessings of those around us, and for the gifts of God’s...
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Sewing a Chalice Veil: Construction Details
The most recent development in the Ecclesiastical Sewing work room has been the development of a Chalice Veil. The pattern & instructions for this will be available soon on our…...
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Exciting News!
If you have been following along on our Facebook page, we have some exciting results from a long weekend of hard work. Ecclesiastical Sewing is tickled pink to share the…...