Church Embroidery and Church Vestments
Sample pages
Page 19, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
A practical manual on making church embroidery and liturgical vestments, written by the head of the Washington Cathedral Altar Guild. Part One covers liturgical colours, fabrics, embroidery frames, transferring patterns, stitches (Italian, long and short, split, couching, Damascene), altar hangings, burses, veils, stoles, altar linens, applied work and banners. Part Two covers making albs, stoles, maniples, chasubles, tunicles, dalmatics, copes, surplices and the vested altar, followed by funeral palls, church symbols, and stain removal. Illustrated with many photographs and line drawings, including garment patterns with measurements.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1939
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 125
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »