…over a century earlier. They are part of local history having been saved at the time of the reformation. When I see them I think of the men and women who made them and the skills they must have had.”

#TowneleyBehindTheScenes
#Burnleyhistory
#Museumcollections
#Vestments

A zombie wearing choir church robes, floating. Blood and gore

Monthly horror prompt "Zombie Apocalypse Rapture"
This was what came to mind, I partly blame Midnight Mass.
Traditional ink pens
#zombies #horror #vestments #inkdrawing

LAVS – Paramenti Sacri | Liturgical Vestments

whut

You always assume #vestments are all done by #nuns, earnest parishioners, or something?

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Everything about this screams ‘Catholicism is artsy cool!’ to someone who ran off to a monolingual French-Canadian university, after raised by a raging Appalachian Baptist & a Germanic military agnostic

#anglosaxon #saxon #medieval #earlymedieval #migrationperiod #middleages #historiccostume #earlychurch #roman #celtic #lateroman #christianity #vestments #livinghistory #reenactment #archaeology #textiles #craft #textilearchaeology

Tailor of history: Meet the man who dresses popes In a workshop that's a stone's throw from St. Peter's Basilica, 86-year-old Raniero Mancinelli has been sewing cassocks for popes for more than half a century.

The Saville Row for Popes
#Rome
#Vestments
#adorments

#episcopal #anglocatholic #vestments ⚓️