The Studio Newsletter

The Studio's latest Newsletter will be sent to those on our list of contacts in coming days.  Would you like to  receive a copy?  If so, please send an e-mail with the subject "NEWSLETTER" to our address :

stbede62@gmail.com

AMDG

A Prayer for those who work to beautify God's House

This prayer has been composed to seek God's Blessings on the work of the Saint Bede Studio, but it is also intended for the benefit of all those who work for the beautification of God's House. Perhaps you will read this prayer regularly and share it with others.

That in all things God may be glorified.

Michael Sternbeck

The Saint Bede Studio

stbede62@gmail.com

Considering an order with the Studio for vestments?

Would you like to support our work for the beautification of the Church's liturgy?  Please consider placing an order for vestments with us at this time or the near future.  We would welcome your business.

Enquirers, look at this link.

This image shews His late Holiness, Pope Benedict wearing vestments made for him by the Saint Bede Studio in 2008.  These vestments, together with the matching mitre are now preserved in the sacristy of Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome.  Only a select few vestment-makers are given the opportunity to make vestments for the Pope and the Saint Bede Studio is among them!  We are very mindful of this immense privilege.

At the Saint Bede Studio, we are a small firm of Catholics making vestments for Catholics.

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AMDG.

On the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

On this Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we are pleased to describe this Marian chasuble which we call Ave Maris Stella,  being in the Gothic Revival style.

The decorative focus of this vestment is an orphrey braid which is based on the work of AWN Pugin.  This braid is produced in two shades of blue (lighter and darker) with figured ornament in gold.

These vestments were made from an ecclesiastical damask in the shade of ivory and lined in a Royal Blue taffeta.

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Enquiries.

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AMDG 

WELCOME VISITORS !!!

Mirabile dictu ... Something strange happened overnight (Australian time) at this blog of the Saint Bede Studio.  Almost 9000 visits :O  Welcome new visitors.  

NEW VISITORS  Take an opportunity to look around the Studio blog and see our range of fine vestments.  We are a small business of Catholics here in Australia making vestments for the Catholic Church all around the world. 

You will also find many interesting articles and commentaries on the Sacred Liturgy on this blog.

The blog was set up for viewing on a computer monitor or tablet.  It has links to various categories of posts, about our new vestments or recent.  You might find something that interests you ... share it with friends.

Thank you for visiting us and visit again soon.

Michael Sternbeck

Proprietor of the Saint Bede Studio

Wednesday 30th August at 845am

Contact us at :  stbede62@gmail.com

ORDINANDS ! 2024

2024 is closer than we would wish, so if you are interested in commissioning vestments with the Saint Bede Studio for your Ordination next year, NOW is the time to contact us to begin discussions.

Every year - regretfully - we have to refuse work from ordinands because they have left enquiries too late for us to fit into our over-crowded schedule.

Contact us now to avoid disappointment.  

Please show this notice to ordinands who may be thinking of vestments.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Vestments for Funeral Masses

One of our customers kindly provided us with some photographs of a set of vestments made for his use by the Saint Bede Studio

The photograph was taken at the beginning of a Mass and candle-light procession for the Faithful Departed held on All Souls' night 2021 at the Catholic Chapel of the University of Maryland.

Our customer obtained from the Studio a set of vestments in the Gothic Revival style.  In this instance, instead of being ornamented in the usual silver or gold braids, this set of vestments was lined in crimson red and ornamented with a braid in colours of blue, red and gold.  The effect is most beautiful.

Read more about this set of vestments here.

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Enquiries.

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AMDG 

Vestments for the Season "Per Annum" : 7

In this Season  Per Annum  the Saint Bede Studio is pleased to present another set of green vestments, recently completed for a returning customer from the United States.

This set is in the style we call Saint Martin.  This style is the Saint Bede Studio's own contemporary interpretation of the ancient form of Roman chasuble.  It is extremely ample but, being carefully shaped, does not fall like a blanket on the wearer (as so many contemporary vestments do).  Rather it falls into the folds of the arms and gathers gracefully. 

This set is constructed from handmade dupion silk in a rich shade of green, and it is lined in a lovely shade of blue taffeta.  The ornament in the traditional Saint Andrew's Cross is formed from a reproduction of a mediaeval braid, in colours of crimson, straw-gold and white upon a blue background.  This is one of the Studio's unique braids called Saint Raymund.

At the Saint Bede Studio, we strive to avoid the idea that the designation Ordinary Time is a reason to make green vestments which are non-descript, or lacking in inspiration.  Although not elaborate, this is a beautiful and distinctive set of vestments. 

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Enquiries.

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AMDG 

Vestments for the Season "Per Annum" : 6

In this Season  Per Annum  the Saint Bede Studio is pleased to present another set of green vestments, recently completed for a returning customer from the United Kingdom.

This set is in the style common in the mediaeval period, being quite different in shape from the modern chasuble.  With the arms by the sides, mediaeval chasuble is almost the shape of a bell and often referred to as such, or as the conical chasuble.  

The distinctive thing about this form of chasuble - quite different from the modern chasuble - is its drapery.  When the arms of the wearer are raised, the chasuble gathers into folds from the bottom upward, not from the centre outward (as with the modern "Gothic" chasuble). 

The Studio has made many such chasubles, based upon careful study of illustrations of mediaeval chasubles and examination of modern reproductions.  Through trial and error, the Studio has developed a form of conical chasuble which is comfortable to wear, although the wearer certainly benefits from the assistance of a minister to adjust the chasuble.

This set is made from an English ecclesiastical brocade, lined in a lovely shade of crimson-red taffeta.  The ornament is formed from a reproduction of a mediaeval braid, in colours of crimson and white upon a dark background.  The perimeter of the chasuble is outlined with a quatrefoil galloon in the colours of crimson and platinum.

At the Saint Bede Studio, we strive to avoid the idea that the designation Ordinary Time is a reason to make green vestments which are non-descript, or lacking in inspiration.  In the case of this set, it might be noted that the colour gold is absent from the ornamental scheme.  This makes this set distinctive; its colours are intended to be based on the colours of nature.  

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Enquiries.

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AMDG 

Gothic Revival Vestments

The Saint Bede Studio is pleased to present this set of vestments in a style we call Saint Giles, being an interpretation of the Gothic Revival chasuble.  The chasuble is ample without being of the exaggerated proportions one sometimes finds.  The Gothic chasuble was never intended to reach to the ankles.

This set is made from an ecclesiastical brocade, lined in a lovely shade of crimson-red taffeta.  

We wish to draw particular attention to the ornamentation of this set, formed from one of the Studio's unique orphrey braids, called Saint Edmund, and which is derived from the designs of AWN Pugin.  Although we have Saint Edmund braid in other colours, it has recently been woven for us in colours of blue and gold, upon a red background.  This combination allows this braid to be attractively used with vestments of different liturgical colours.

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Enquiries.

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

AMDG