In this Christmastide : 3

In this Christmas Season, we are pleased to present a set of vestments made for Festal days.

The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

This set of vestments is in the style we call Saint Austin. It is a stylised chasuble common in the Gothic Revival period of the mid-19th century. The chasuble is long, but not wide and comes to a point at the front and the back. As made by the Saint Bede Studio, this style of vestment is very comfortable to wear. This particular set was made from a beautiful ecclesiastical brocade in a shade of ivory, it was lined in a mint green shade of taffeta and ornamented with a one of the Studio's unique braids ChiRho in colours of red, green, white and gold, enhanced with a matching galloon.

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AMDG

Studio Notice

The Saint Bede Studio is at present in recess and will return to its work - including correspondence - on 9th January.

Scheduled blog posts will continue in the meantime.

Ut in omnibus Deus glorificetur. 

In this Christmastide

In this Christmastide, the Saint Bede Studio is pleased to present this set of Fetsal vestments.

The Saint Martin chasuble is the Studio's own contemporary interpretation of the ancient form of Roman vestment.  It is extremely ample.  The ornamentation of these vestments is arranged in the Roman style, being a Tau ornament in the front and a column at the back, formed from braids and contrasting damask.  The vestments can be made in a variety of qualities of fabric in all the Liturgical colours.

The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

This dignified set was made from dupion silk in a subtle shade of gold and lined in red taffeta.  It was ornamented with brighter red dupion silk and one of the Studio's unique braids, called Saint George.

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The Saint Bede Studio : vestments made by Catholics for Catholics.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Information on placing an order.

Please note that posts on this blog are set-up for optimal viewing via a web-browser, not via a mobile phone.

AMDG

A New Year's Greeting

This lovely drawing by the English artist Eric Gill depicts an Angel visiting the Child Jesus and his Mother, Mary.  Mary is sitting knitting.  Around the perimeter is written (in Latin) "Let all things praise God, who created (them)."

The ingenious part of this drawing is that by enclosing the figures within a circle, Gill also depicts the planet Earth, with its masses of land and oceans.  The Mother and Child are in the world, yet all things are under their care.  The angels watch over us.

May the Christ-child and his Blessed Mother bring peace and health in mind and body to our troubled world.

The Saint Bede Studio wishes all its customers and readers every Blessing in 2026.

Pope Benedict

We recall with sadness that day three years ago when our beloved Pope Benedict was called from this life to the next.  How greatly we miss him !  But we rely on his intercession and continue to reflect on his profound teaching in the brief years of his Pontificate.

AMDG

On the Feast of S' Thomas Becket

On this Feast of the great English saint and martyr Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, we are pleased to present a recently made set of vestments. 

The design of the chasuble shewn adjacent is a variation on the Studio's Saint Cuthbert chasuble, which is a very ample vestment. 

The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

Posts describing the venerable chasuble of Saint Thomas (which was in the semi-conical form), can be viewed here and here.

Although visually similar to the original Becket chasuble, there is no attempt to produce an exact replica of it; instead it is an adaptation of the venerable chasuble, intended for convenient modern use.

The vestments are made from an English ecclesiastical brocade, which is fully lined in blue taffeta. A narrow braid, designed by the Studio in an early mediaeval style, was used to ornament the vestments in the distinctive manner.

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The Saint Bede Studio : vestments made by Catholics for Catholics.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Information on placing an order.

Please note that posts on this blog are set-up for optimal viewing via a web-browser, not via a mobile phone.

AMDG

During the Holy Days of Christmas

During this Christmas Season, the Saint Bede Studio is pleased to resume presentations of our festal vestments.

This set is made in the style now associated with Saint Philip Neri : the Italian style of the 16th and early 17th centuries.  The vestments were made from a brocade of gold silk and metallic thread and fully-lined in a taffeta muted-gold in colour.

This chasuble is ornamented in the well-known Roman style, being the TAU at the front and a column at the back, formed by a rich brocade in colours of ivory and golden thread, with an outlining galloon. 

 

The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

Click on the images for an enlarged view.

The Saint Bede Studio : vestments made by Catholics for Catholics.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Information on placing an order.

Please note that posts on this blog are set-up for optimal viewing via a web-browser, not via a mobile phone.

AMDG

A Greeting on this Most Holy Feast

 

To all friends, customers and readers of this Blog, 

sincere wishes for a Blessed Christmas.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill be made low; the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places, plain; and the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
Isaiah 40:4-5.

Michael Sternbeck
The Saint Bede Studio
December 2025

In the Season of Advent 2025 : 5

As Advent draws to a close, the Saint Bede Studio is pleased to present this simple violet dalmatic. 

The Saint Bede Studio : vestments made by Catholics for Catholics.

Although there are many different shades used for Lenten and Advent vestments (none of which has a claim to being the correct colour), nevertheless, this particular shade of violet is closer to what was used during the mediaeval period and until the beginning of the 20th century.  It is a subdued colour, but not dark, closer to the shade of the flowers violets. 

Instead of the ubiquitous treatment of gold ornament, these vestments are ornamented with galloons of charcoal and silver and are lined in taffeta of silver-grey. The dalmatics are ornamented in a modified form of the Roman manner.

The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Information on placing an order.

Please note that posts on this blog are set-up for optimal viewing via a web-browser, not via a mobile phone.

AMDG

In the Season of Advent 2025 : 4

As Advent continues, the Saint Bede Studio wishes to present this simple set of violet vestments.  It is part of our range of vestments, called Saint Anselm.

The vestments were made from silk in a lighter shade of violet and ornamented with a column, front and back.  The ornament was formed from silver dupion silk and one of the Studio's unique braids Saint Edmund (based on a design of AWN Pugin).

The Saint Bede Studio : vestments made by Catholics for Catholics.  

The chasuble is unlined, but faced at the neckline, helping it to sit well and not crumple.  

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The vestments of the Saint Bede Studio are beautiful in design, sound in construction and distinctive in appearance.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Information on placing an order.

Please note that posts on this blog are set-up for optimal viewing via a web-browser, not via a mobile phone.

AMDG