Adventures in Sewing for the Church and Vestment Making
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White and Gold for Easter and Christmas
Easter and Christmas are the highest festivals in the church year. The vestments worn by clergy and used in the church are often decorated with white and gold. Last Christmas,…...
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Custom Sized Church Vestments
Church vestments come in all sizes from small to extra-large. Just as we find in the ready-to-wear fashion market, the hope is the existing size ranges will provide something that…...
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Quick Ship Items Now Available
With Easter only a quick few weeks away, we thought we would take a quick second to tell you about our Quick Ship Items. Quickly, these are items that are…...
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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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Slate Frames – How to Determine Size
Slate frames have been used for countless years (or may we centuries) as a way of mounting fabric for working hand embroidery. There are many advantages to using a slate…...
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Ways to Honor Soon to be Ordained Pastors and Priests
Deacons and Seminarians spend years in school preparing for their roles as future pastors or priests. There are the usual years of undergraduate work and then it is on to…...
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Three New Latin Mass Chasuble Patterns
This has been ages in coming. We get requests constantly for traditional Latin Mass Vestments. Churches and priests wish to have someone create unique vestments that reflect a more traditional…...
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Transfiguration Sunday 2019
We enjoy spending time each summer hiking in Glacier National Park. A few years back, we were out for an early morning hike just as the clouds came settling in.…...
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The Church Year is a Pageant
The Church Year is an ongoing Pageant How do you view the church year? Have you ever thought of the church year as a pageant – not the kind of…...
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Through the Needle’s Eye – EGA Traveling Exhibit
Needlework is always fun and exciting. I especially love hand embroidery but running a busy sewing studio does not leave much time for the pleasures a favorite pastime. So,…...
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Dayspring Vestment Collection by Ecclesiastical Sewing
O Morning Star, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. New collections are months in the…...