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- Red Wakefield Brocatelle Liturgical Fabrics
- Cotta Sewing Patterns for Altar Servers
- Dressing a Slate Embroidery Frame
- Processional Cross Cover
- Liturgical Artwork Prints | Gift Ideas
- Matthias Church, Budapest: A Journey Through History
- Bespoke Vestments and Paraments
- A discussion about Chasubles
- Caring for your Pastor or Priest During This Time
- Symbols of Lent: Penitence to Hope
- Thank you! And Another Pattern or Two or Three!
- Do you have sewing skills, fabric, a few hours and a desire to make a difference?
- Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis: A Taste of Europe in the New World
- Top 10 New Embroidery Designs to Stitch While “Being Still” at Home
- Fish during Lent: Every Day or just on Friday?
- How to Make Baptismal Towel Altar Linens
- Best White Liturgical Fabrics for Easter and Festival Seasons of the Church Year
- What to use on the Inside to get a great look on the Outside for Vestments
- Altar Linens
- Top 10 materials for DIY stole making
- Sewing Church Vestments and Linens: 10 Tips for Success
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Why do we use purple during Lent?
- Do you have your favorite Violet Stole Style Selected Yet? Lent is coming!
- Planning Your Lent Church Vestment Projects: a Liturgical Fabric Review
- Epiphany: A Celebration with Varied Traditions
- Lent Vestment Fabric – Violets and Golds
- Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
- The Christmas Rose Legend & Symbolism
- Christmas Rose Vestments
- The O Antiphons and O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- December 20th: Katie Luther!
- O Radix Jesse
- An Article About Gaudete Sunday
- Blue or Purple: An Advent Debate
- The Saint Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer
- Sanctified Collection of Church Vestments
- February 2nd, 2018
- Summer Travels and Unexpected Surprises!
- June 24 Celebrates the Nativity of John the Baptist
- A Beautiful Confession: Guest post by Edward Riojas
- Top 5 Tips for Sewing Perfect Chasuble Orphrey Bands
- Custom Crafted Ordination Stoles for Pastors
- Quick Sewing Tip: Add Goldwork Dove Appliques to Red Stoles for Pentecost
- St. Philip and St. James – Apostles
- Top Five Traditional Clergy Stole Patterns for Church Vestment
- Traditional Church Vestment Sewing Patterns
- Good Friday Liturgical Art
- Identifying an Embroidery Design
- Pentecost a Season of Red Liturgical Fabrics
- Traditional Linen Alb Priest Vestment Sewing Pattern
- Evangelist Stole for Easter Quick Ship
- White and Gold for Easter and Christmas
- Custom Sized Church Vestments
- Quick Ship Items Now Available
- Creating Orphrey Bands for Church Vestments
- Slate Frames – How to Determine Size
- Ways to Honor Soon to be Ordained Pastors and Priests
- Three New Latin Mass Chasuble Patterns
- #juliska is for #lovers (at Jane Leslie & Co.)
- Classic best wishes
- This Spring, the Ducklings!
- Hop in for bunny gifts!
- Under the blossoms
- Loving #Earthday 15%
- #Earthday 15% Saturday
- The Registry favorite
- Back in for Spring15%
- Give the classic gift!
- The JL Wedding Registry
- He deserves the best!
- My painting for Jules.
- Tuscany trip raffle gift with $100.00 purchase! #Ostehout...
- Loving cool nights and Arte Italica.
- Best served in Bella Bianca
- Where art and glass become gifts!
- Pendleton arriving for Fall-Winter!
- Changing seasons at home! @janeleslieco #jlco
- This week’s gift #lizziefortunato
- Transfiguration Sunday 2019
- The Church Year is a Pageant
- Through the Needle’s Eye – EGA Traveling Exhibit
- Dayspring Vestment Collection by Ecclesiastical Sewing
- O Oriens – O Dayspring Antiphon for December 21
- Christmas Greetings
- O Emmanuel – O God with Us O Antiphon for December 23
- O Clavis David – O Key of David Antiphon for December 20
- O Radix Jesse – O Root of Jesse Antiphon for December 19
- O Adonai Antiphon for December 18
- O Sapientia – O Wisdom: The Great O’ Antiphon for December 17
- Tips for Sewing with Cloth of Gold or Silver
- Rose Stoles for Gaudete and Laetare Sundays
- Advent Comes – City of David Collection
- Carlisle Fabric in White for Roman Square Yoke Surplice Patterns
- Advent Vestment Projects in the Studio
- A History of Advent with a Hand Embroidery Design
- Square Yoke Surplice Pattern in Multiple Sizes
- The New Church Year Begins December 2, 2018
- Custom Made Slate Frames and Trestle Stands for Hand Embroidery
- Sacristy Check List: 10 Things to Review for Fall
- Concordia Theological Seminary Machine Embroidery Logo
- Trestle Stands for Slate Frames
- Evangelists Vestments Collections to Celebrate the Feast of St. Matthew September 21
- Sewing Tips: What is needed to make a Tippet
- Rose Chasuble and Stole Vestments for Advent and Lent
- It’s Not Too Late – Vestment Making Class
- Gilt Twist Goldwork Threads for Hand Embroidery
- Reformation 2018 – 501 Years in the Making
- Imitation Japanese Goldwork Embroidery Threads
- What is a Tippet? Clergy Tippet Modern Use & Historical Background
- What is a Monastic Style Chasuble?
- Tapestry Fabrics: How to Measure Pattern Repeats
- National Altar Guild Convention This Weekend
- Sanctified Collection of Church Vestments
- Sewing Tips – Top10 Scissors for all Occasions
- Blessed Virgin Mary Monogram and Stoles
- Top 5 Pastor Stole Finishing Touches
- How to Determine the Correct Clergy Stole length
- Adding Fringe Trim to a Pulpit Fall or Superfrontal
- Ordination and Installation of Clergy
- Embroidered Appliques: How to Apply Goldwork Pieces
- Opus Anglicanum: Medieval Embroidery
- Stole Making: A Little Encouragement
- Vestment making Classes
- Luther Rose Brocade – Something Special
- Hand Embroidery Design for Altar Linens
- Pentecost Dove Emblem
- Altar Linen Fabric Selection
- Hope in the Midst of Tragedy – Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Milwaukee
- Gothic Chasuble with Column Orphrey Bands
- St. Margaret Liturgical Brocade for Church Vestments
- Monastic Chasuble Pattern for Making Church Vestments
- Church Vestment Making Classes Fall 2018
- Upcoming Events: Needlework Exhibit At the Haehn Museum
- St. Luke – The Evangelist Collection of Church Vestments
- Easter 2018
- Good Friday 2018
- Red and Gold Liturgical Brocade Fabrics
- Chasuble Patterns for Making Church Vestments
- Evangelist Collection of Embroidery Designs for Church Vestments
- The Massachusetts Historical Society Exhibit
- The Rose of the Lutherans
- Virgin and Child Goldwork Embroidery Design
- February 2nd, 2018
- Something Special: White and Gold Religious Fabrics
- Something Special For Lent and Good Friday: Black Vestment Fabrics
- New Rose Pastoral Chasuble and Stole
- Violet Stole and Chasuble Sets for Lent and Advent
- Dainty Liturgical Fabrics? How Will They Look!
- Dainty Liturgical Fabrics? How Will They Look!
- Forgotten Altars? Take Another Look!
- Trestle Embroidery Stand and Slate Frames
- The Christmas Rose
- Rose Colored Vestments
- Just the smallest of notes….
- Saint of the Day
- Final pattern: a stole for our deacons
- On point with a V-Neck Stole Pattern
- In Honor of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
- A Tapered Stole
- The First Pattern to go with Silk Dupioni: 5 inch stole
- The 4.5 inch pattern; Our Tried & True Stole
- Why the 3.5″ Stole Pattern is Extra Special
- Clergy Appreciation 2017
- Which Patterns for Which Stole Kits?
- How to Match Patterns using Violet Ely Crown Liturgical Fabric
- What Else Does a Stole Kit Need?
- The Color of a Stole Kit
- A Stole Kit by definition is…
- Crown of Glory: Ecclesiastical Church Embroidery Design Part 1
- Stole Ends: Quick Tips
- The Long Anticipated Wait…
- Liturgical Brocades: St. Aidan and Cloister Brocade
- The Fifth, & Final, Special July Post
- Liturgical Arts Conference
- Pastoral Stole Patterns
- The Fourth Special July Post
- Information on a Brocade
- Why Do We Make Beautiful Vestments
- The Third Special of the Special Posts in July
- Slate Embroidery Frames and Trestle Stands
- The Second of The Special July Posts
- A Beautiful Confession: Guest post by Edward Riojas
- Monastic Chasubles and Stole: A New Collection Pugin Style
- The First of The Special July Posts
- Hand Embroidery Design for Altar Linens
- Updates and New Items for Ordinary Times in the Church Year
- In Remembrance: Urn Palls for use at Funerals
- April 25th & The Secrets of Venice
- Monastic Chasuble Pattern
- The Pallium & The Ontological Argument
- How to prepare fabric for machine embroidery?
- The Ecclesiastical Sewing Family’s Easter in 2017
- Good Friday 2017 and Stabat Mater Dolorosa
- The First Chapter of a New Book
- Litchfield Brocade Dossal Curtain
- Palm Sunday 2017
- Dürer and Cranach
- April’s Goals
- St. Urho
- The Warm & Fuzzies
- Thoughts of Lent
- Today we feast for tomorrow begins our fast!
- A Reader’s Labor of Love: Making Liturgical Vestments
- What is needed for Vestment Makers?
- King of Kings – Crown of Glory Liturgical Machine Embroidery Motif
- Luther Rose Liturgical Brocade Church Vestment Fabric
- Inspiration for a Lazy Sunday Afternoon: Small Altar Linens
- Making a Chalice Veil Part II: Good Friday Chalice Veil
- Making Your Own Clergy Stole: Stole Making
- Any guesses?
- Guest Post by Edward Riojas
- Lent and Advent Pastor or Priest Stoles and Rose Stole for Laetare Sunday
- Religious Lutheran Machine Embroidery Designs for Church Vestments
- Sewing a Chalice Veil: Construction Details
- Exciting News!
- Liturgical Brocades: Fabrics for Making Church Vestments
- Little Crosses: Appliques for use on Church Vestments and Pastoral Stoles
- Happy New Year From Ecclesiastical Sewing
- VDMA Machine Embroidery Design for Stoles
- Liturgical Brocades Used for Church Vestments and Historical Costumes
- Merry Christmas from Ecclesiastical Sewing
- Messianic Christmas Rose with Crown Liturgical Machine Embroidery Design
- Hand Embroidery & Church Linen Purificators: How-To Make Altar Linens
- White Liturgical Religious Fabrics for Making Church Vestments
- Saturno – Another Priest Christmas Gift Idea — Father Jerabek’s Blog
- Opus Anglicanum Resources
- Pastoral Stoles for Advent, Lent, and Good Friday
- St. Ambrose Church Father and his Symbol
- Pastoral and Priest Clergy Stole Patterns
- Small Altar Linens and a Gift for You
- Email sign up form and small church linen booklet
- Linen Fabric and Small Altar Linens
- Liturgical Digital Machine Embroidery Designs
- Wooden Slate Embroidery Frames
- New Pastoral and Priest Stole Patterns
- Silk Dupioni Liturgical Stole Kit with Evesham Orphrey
- Violet, Blue and Rose Liturgical Brocade Church Vestments Fabrics
- Ely Crown Liturgical Brocade and Pugin Orphrey Trim
- Liturgical Brocade Fabric for Pastoral Stole Kits
- Grand Opening Special: Stole Kit and Pastoral Stole Pattern
- 4 1/2 Inch Wide Pastoral Stole Pattern
- The Temple
- All Saints Day
- The Protestant Reformation And Its Importance To Ecclesiastical Sewing
- Chi Rho Liturgical Machine Embroidery Design
- Ecclesiastical Sewing: Our Story
- The Cope–Norris
- Black Evesham Church Vestment Fabric Orphrey
- October 11th–Philip the Deacon
- Wardrobes for Clergy: Liturgical Vestments and Pastoral Stoles
- Thoughts on the Upcoming Clergy Appreciation Sunday
- September 30th: St. Jerome
- Church Linen–Roulin
- Headwear Part III: The Tiara—Norris
- Lichfield Liturgical Fabric: Reformation Stole and Chasuble
- Altar Linens: Linen Fabric Choices
- St. Hubert
- Working with Liturgical Fabrics: Pattern Matching
- Holy Cross Day September 14
- September 13th—John Chrysostom
- Lovely Ecclesiastical Fabrics
- Headwear Part II: The Mitre—Norris
- Part I: The Amice—Norris
- Sacred Vessels
- Summer Travels Italy Part II
- Summer Travels Italy Part I
- The Pallium-Herbert Norris
- The Chasuble Percy Dearmer
- The Origins and History of the Alb
- Altare Dei—The Altar of God
- Ecclesiastical Sewing Introduces Ashley
- Pastoral Stoles and Stole Patterns
- Cathedral of St. Helena: in Search of Vestments
- Liturgical Fabrics: Ely Crown
- Introducing my new website Ecclesiastical Sewing
- Ecclesiastical Sewing
- Good Friday Pulpit Fall
- Early Struggles in Ecclesiastical Sewing
- The Never Ending Quest for Ecclesiastical Designs
- Ecclesiastical Design Ideas on Pinterest
- Upcoming Ecclesiastial Embroidery Events at the Victorian and Albert Museum
- New Projects in the works soon
- The Tale of Two Lambs
- The Littlest Lamb in The Tale of Two Lambs
- Old Books Make Great Reads
- New Frames Mean New Projects
- To the Rescue in the Sacristy
- Late Night Progress
- Technical Difficulties and Framing Dilemmas
- All in a Day’s Work
- All framed up and ready to stitch
- White Garment for Holy Baptism
- Surplice Directions in the works
- Paper Matters
- Under Way with First Stitches!
- New Books, New Information
- Sources of Inspiration from Lucy Mackrille
- From Inspiration Source to Stitching
- Underway with Glitters of Gold
- Trial Run at Marking for Whitework
- Pouncing with the Blues
- Goldwork and Meandering Thoughts
- Weekend Reading and Musing
- A Quick Tidy Up
- Summer Travels and Unexpected Surprises!
- Results of Organization Weekend
- Future Projects Design Time
- A Little Stitching Time
- More Surprises on Summer Travels
- Progress on Ecclesiastical Embroidery
- A Little Splash of Color
- From the Beginning in The Tale of Two Lambs
- Reading Time for a Stormy Night
- Green and Gold Braid
- Wash on Friday, Iron on Saturday
- A Simple Design Framed Up
- Ecclesiastical Embroidery Pattern Solution
- IHS Ecclesiastical Design First Stitches
- The Second Lamb in The Tale of Two Lambs
- IHS Ecclesiastical Embroidery A Little Progress
- Memories and Vestment Photos from Summer Travels
- The Beauty of the Art of Ecclesiastical Embroidery
- Agnus Dei Progress
- Ecclesiastical Vestment Pattern Making
- Large Agnus Dei Update
- Ecclesiastical Library
- False Starts and New Beginnings
- Goldwork Progress
- Vestments From Around the World
- Simple Details
- Inspirations for Silk Wrapped Purl
- Chalice Veil Design from Althea Wiel
- Updating Pattern Drafting Tools
- IHS Embroidery Update
- Ecclesiastical Fabric Pattern Repeats
- Vintage Ecclesiastical Embroidery Transfer Treasures
- Testing Colors on the Pulpit Fall
- Ecclesiastical Vestment Fabric Cost
- Rose Vestments and IHS Design Index
- Books: The Next Best Thing
- Books: The Next Best Thing : Part II
- Books: The Next Best Thing Part III
- IHS Turning Corners
- Books: The Next Best Thing Final
- Planning Ahead
- Shining Silver – Stars?
- Returning Home
- Monk Habit Pattern
- Advent Altar Hanging and Pulpit Fall Ideas
- Testing Card Padding
- Advent Star Altar Frontal
- Advent Star Stitching Underway
- Resources for Ecclesiastical Symbols
- Reformation Vestment Set Ideas
- Classes for Church Needlework
- Framing Steps
- Framing Steps Part 2 Advent
- Changing Plans?
- Preparing Altar Frontal
- Bits and Pieces Advent Set
- Preparing the Advent Pulpit Fall Design
- A Rare Find
- Rare Find Part II
- Metallic Threads
- Time is Ticking Away
- Ecclesiastical Embroidery Designs A Starting Point
- Something to Share
- Outlining: Finishing Touch or Distraction
- Long Awaited Threads
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Initiative
- Thanksgiving Weekend Break and Gift Ideas
- Vestment History from Around the Web
- Silver Couching Progress
- Clergy Surplice - Pattern Update
- Seeing Red and Starting Over
- Elizabeth – Watts and Co
- Chasuble Patterns in the Works
- A Quick Glance Ahead to Lent
- Stretching the Wings
- Clothed in Majesty European Ecclesiastical Textiles
- Holiday Break
- Nativity by John D. Sedding
- Feast of the Holy Innocents
- Holidays and Getting Back to Work
- Happy New Year
- An Interesting Item
- Ely Cathedral Event
- Historical Use of Chasubles and History of Vestment
- Passion Cross on Ash Wednesday Chalice Veil
- Embroidery Galleries of Liverpool Cathedral
- Liturgical Colors for the Church Year
- Agnus Dei Neglected but not Forgotten
- Mary Barber’s Some Drawings of Ancient Embroidery
- Mary Barber’s Six Winged Creature Drawing
- Trash or Treasure?
- What To Do in 20 Minutes
- Easter Sunrise Hand Embroidery Design
- Back ground on Fair Linens
- Passion Cross for Ash Wednesday
- Black Passion Cross Update
- ISH Lenten Hand Embroidery Design
- Trellis Stitching Over Laid Silk Floss
- Flowers in Honor of St. Valentine
- Needlework Sale
- Finished at Last! Ash Wednesday Vestments
- Black and Gold Vestments: Making a Chalice Veil
- Chalice Veil Orphreys
- Whitework Ecclesiastical Embroidery Pattern
- Chalice Veil Cross Applique
- Fit for a King: Richard III Project
- Chalice Veil Orphrey Trim Part 2
- Habsburg Splendor at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Ecclesiastical Pattern Cataloging
- The Process of Making Vintage Embroidery Patterns Usable
- Planning – First Steps for Altar Frontal
- Laetare Sunday or Rose Vestments
- A Fun Experiment with Machine Embroidery
- Rose Chalice Veil Construction
- Musée de la Visitation Exhibit 2015
- So What are Vimpae?
- Quatrefoil Ecclesiastical Design
- Books from Musée de la Visitation
- The Ravages of Time on Ecclesiastical Vestments
- Quatrefoil Ecclesiastical Design – Part 2
- Beautiful Sacred Vestment Videos
- More Quatrefoil Designs
- King Richard III a Part of History
- What Vestments Does a Priest or Pastor Need?
- What Vestments Does a Priest Need: Part 2
- Treasured Vestments Westminster Chasuble
- Priest or Pastor Stoles: The Tricky Parts
- Priest or Pastoral Stoles: Trim Options
- Priest or Pastoral Stole: Tassel Ends
- Priest or Pastoral Stoles: More Trims
- Lace Making for Altar Cloths
- Pentecost Stoles
- Helpful Church Vestment Books
- Vintage Baptismal Cloth
- Travels and Ecclesiastical Sewing Treasures
- Pentecost Stoles Part 2
- Red Pentecost Stoles
- Pentecost Chasuble O’Fallon Missouri
- Altar Frontals
- Pastoral or Priest Stole Ends: Fringe and Tassels
- Lutheran Bäffchen or Clergy Collar
- Pastoral Stoles: How Much do They Cost?
- Visiting a Grand Cathedral the Proper Way
- Lace: the Forgotten Ecclesiastical Craft?
- Lace for Church Use Instruction Book
- Ecclesiastical Footwear?
- Altar Fair Linen with Edge Trim
- Whitework Embroidery for Church Linens
- Pattern Making and Testing Samples
- Back to Ecclesiastical Projects – Soon
- Frontal at St. Ignatius Mission
- St. Ignatius Mission Banners
- Altar Linen Projects – Beginnings
- Whitework Altar Linens
- Liturgical Embroidery Design
- Liturgical Embroidery Designs Phase 2
- Liturgical Embroidery Designs: Continuing the Process
- Liturgical Fabrics
- Vestments and How to Make Them by Lilla Weston
- Still Here Working Behind the Scenes
- Brocade or Damask?
- Shimmering Fabrics and How to Use Them
- Design Options for Christmas Set
- Altar Linen Embroidery Designs
- Church Vestment Fringe: is there a difference?
- George Frederick Bodley
- Liturgical Arts Resources
- More Vintage Liturgical Embroidery Patterns
- Vintage Liturgical Embroidery Library
- Meet Martin the Steadfast
- Altar Linen: Where Linen Comes From
- Liturgical Fabrics: Design Details
- Season Changes
- Sir Ninian Comper: Ecclesiastical Embroidery Designer
- A Handbook for Altar Guilds by Lucy Vaughn Hayden Mackrille
- Can Altar Linens and Church Vestments be Made by Laity?
- Project Update: Rochet and Monastic Choir Alb
- Making Church Vestment Patterns
- Linen is Here
- Favorite Things: Wakefield Ecclesiastical Fabric
- Update on Changes
- Stole Set
- Silver Stars for Advent Stole
- Silver Stars for Advent Stole: Part 2
- Amice Design Ideas
- Orphrey Bands for Pastoral Stoles
- How to Cut Orphrey Bands
- Ecclesiastical Braids and Galloons: Finding the Right Trim
- Sewing Galloon Trim to Orphrey Bands
- Machine Embroidery for Pastoral Stoles
- Pugin – in an Orphrey Trim?
- Annunciation Embroidery Designs
- Orphrey Bands for Altar Frontal
- Finished Stoles: Fairford Black/Gold
- Installation of a New Pastor
- Wedding Weekends
- Vestment Making in the News
- Favorite Things: Vintage Vestment Books
- Royal School of Needlework Exhibit
- New Acquisition: Vintage Vestment Book Treasure
- Designs for Church Embroidery: an Original Copy
- Lenten Stole with Two-Toned Fairford
- Funeral Vestments
- A New Look at Ecclesiastical Sewing
- Reversible Wakefield Ecclesiastical Fabric
- Monk habit Pattern: Help with Design Details
- Aragon Liturgical Tapestry Fabric in Red Lurex
- St. Margaret Ivory Lurex Altar Frontal
- Easter Blessings
- Ideas for Reusing Older Vestment Pieces
- St. Hubert Liturgical Fabrics
- Wish Lists Royal School of Needlework Style
- Ecclesiastical Embroidery: Travels in Search of Treasures
- St. Aidan Liturgical Fabric
- Spring Travels: Florida
- Hand Embroidery Design Small Linens
- Vintage Church Vestment Surprise
- Opus Anglicanum: Victoria and Albert Style
- Cloister Liturgical Fabric
- Evesham Red/Gold and Gold/Gold
- Installation Services
- St. Leo’s Mosaic Christ
- Our Saviour’s Church in Copenhagen
- Copenhagen Churches: St. Alban
- Altar Linens: Using Color
- Ecclesiastical Sewing: Reading for a Summer Road Trip
- Altar Linens: Descriptions and Sizes
- Fair Linens: Part 1 Measurements
- Pastoral Stoles: How Much do They Cost?
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