Church Embroidery

Dean, Beryl

Religion & Spirituality

Mowbray

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Morehouse Pub Co

This is a step-by-step guide to the intricacies of the execution of ecclesiastical embroidery and the creation of vestments for use within the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish religions. It outlines the history of the art and symbolism and fully illustrates the processes.

Ecclesiastical Embroidery (Batsford Embroidery Paperback)

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Bit of wear to top spine of dust jacket. It appears that this book has information for making almost anything a modern church could need from albs to tabernacle veils. Diagrams for cutting and constructing garments and furnishings as well as the decoration of those items.

Church Needlework

Arts & Photography

Beryl Dean, in this very practical, reliable handbook, provides expert guidance in a simple, easy-to-follow way for all who are concerned with the decoration and construction of church vestments and ecclesiastical soft furnishings. This book takes into account the various changes which have influenced current fashions and styles of design in recent years. The author gives clear information - with diagrams, examples and comments - upon the whole range of church embroidery. She briefly covers the historical background of embroidery and then surveys Liturgical symbolism. There are chapters on technique - both hand and machine - making-up and construction, and on Vestments. Frontals, Banners, etc. Most measurements are given in both imperial and metric sizes. This is essentially a how-to-do-it book by one of the foremost ecclesiastical embroidery designer-craftspeople in both England and the United States. It contains over 135 black-and-white original diagrams and photographs, and eight pages of beautifully reproduced colour plates.

Creative appliqué

Watson/Guptill

Ideas for Church Embroidery.

Charles T. Branford

Focuses on every element of church embroidery - from design and inspiration, liturgical colours, lettering and symbolism, to designing liturgical vesture and altar frontals. The book is illustrated with over 100 photographs of finished embroideries, many of which are taken in situ.

Designing Ecclesiastical Stitched Textiles

Search Pr Ltd

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