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Chasuble shape decides how much cloth you need, how the garment drapes, how freely you can move at the altar and what it costs. The four cuts compared.
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Chi-Rho, IHS, Alpha and Omega, dove and flames, wheat and grapes, Jerusalem cross: where each stole symbol comes from, and which colour and season...
The tippet is a black scarf of office worn at the Offices and never changes colour. The stole is a sign of order in...
Double the cord, make the loop, pass the tassels through and let it slip tight; then two side loops for the stole. The one...
Priest and bishop: round the neck, straight, ends level, under the chasuble. Deacon: left shoulder to right hip, fastened. Over a surplice, always straight....
The sleeve and the wearer settle it. A guide to the alb, surplice, cotta and rochet: how long each is, how it fastens, who...
The 33-button tradition is a devotional convention, not a rubric. Here is what the documents actually regulate, what the other counts mean, and what...
Soutane is simply the French and Irish word for a cassock. The differences that matter are of cut, not of name: Roman, Anglican, Jesuit...
Eucharistic vestments and choir dress are two different families of garment, and confusing them causes most vesture mistakes. Here is every garment, who wears...
