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Ecclesiastical Embroidery I've been involved with the craft of vestment making for some 30 years - a long time! When I was starting out, machine embroidery was in its infancy. I honestly did not believe that it would ever amount to very much. Over the past ten years, machine embroidery has come of age. The equipment available today is giving marvelous results! Elizabeth Smith has created the work seen on this page. The Advent altar set shown below is worked on Fairford blue damask in gold colored thread. The thread might have been metallic gold or silver or any other color. The variations of color are nearly infinite! Machine embroidery is offering us an entirely new way to decorate our vestments and paraments!
Here's another embroidery, also worked on stole ends. Again, the color combination may be any choice. This was for a custom wedding stole. The doves alighting in an aurora are not showing up too well. This is the white Ely Crown damask - while the Ely Crown white is on the ivory side. With golden tassels, this turned out to be a very handsome stole! Festal, Joyful, Classic.
Here's another. This is a set was made for Maundy Thursday where the priest's stole is seen through much of the liturgy during the "washing of feet." The decoration features the wheat and grapes vine associated with the Last Supper and is done in deep red dupioni silk ... as opposed to a bright Pentecost/Christmas red.... the face fabric is white Evesham brocade and is lined with an olive silk... it hints at the Garden of Gethsemane, the next chapter in the story of the Passion of Our Lord.
Machine embroideries such as these are replacing ready-made religious symbols that must be appliqued and/or couched in place. In addition to making vestment construction easier, these embroideries offer greater flexibility of design and color. If you've never given machine embroidery any particular consideration, you need to think about this. Elizabeth Smith does custom machine embroidery. We I have been working together for several years now. It's not unusual for one of my customers to want embroidery on a stole - or other vestment. I send them to Elizabeth (by email) and they work out the design between them - pattern and colors. I send the fabric or kit the customer has ordered to Elizabeth. Elizabeth does the embroidery and sends the fabric or kit on to the customer. It works very well! Elizabeth's email address is ElizabethSmithvestments@yahoo.com This works just as well for the white work done on linens. Here are some more pictures: (I've run up against an editing snag. the linen photographs aren't in .jpg and I don't know how to deal with that! I'll have to finish this later. Patience!)
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