Sunday 29 May 2022

Saint Martin Chasuble

The Saint Bede Studio
For an esteemed returning customer in the United States, the Studio prepared a set of vestments shewn in the adjacent photographs in our Saint Martin style.

The Saint Martin chasuble is the Saint Bede 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.

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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Enquiries : This page. 

Saint Martin vestments


Wednesday 25 May 2022

Saint Bede the Venerable

Greetings to all readers of this Blog on this Feast of Saint Bede the Venerable, monk of Jarrow (UK) and first historian of the Church in England.  

Read a little about the life and work of Saint Bede here.

The Saint Bede Studio, which takes its name from the English monk, is a small enterprise but continues to receive large numbers of enquiries each year. Please say a prayer for God's Blessing on the work of the Studio and the good health of its staff.

Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com

Friday 20 May 2022

Priestly Ordinations 2021 : 6

Gothic Revival vestments
In this post, we are pleased to describe a set of vestments in the Saint Bede Studio's Saint Benet style, which was commissioned by an ordinand from Canada.

These Gothic Revival vestments were made from an ecclesiastical brocade in a lovely shade of ivory, and ornamented with the Studio's unique braids.  The wider braid illustrated is called Saint George and is derived from an orphrey designed by the famed English Gothic Revivalist A.W.N. Pugin. The lining of these vestments was formed from a deep red shade of taffeta.

Please pray for all newly-ordained priests.

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Enquiries : This page.


The Saint Bede Studio


Tuesday 17 May 2022

Priestly Ordinations 2021 : 5

In this post, we are pleased to describe a set of vestments in the Saint Bede Studio's Saint Austin style, which was commissioned by an ordinand from the United States.

These Gothic Revival vestments were made from an ecclesiastical brocade in a lovely shade of ivory, and ornamented with the Studio's unique braids.  The braid illustrated is called Saint Chad and is derived from an orphrey designed by the famed English Gothic Revivalist A.W.N. Pugin. The lining of these vestments was formed from a crimson shade of taffeta.

Please pray for all newly-ordained priests.

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Enquiries : This page.

The Saint Bede Studio


Saturday 7 May 2022

Orphrey braids of the Saint Bede Studio

Each year, the Saint Bede Studio adds to its range of orphrey braids.  We are working on the development of some new braids for production in 2022.  Most of our braids are derived from precedents, either Gothic Revival or Mediaeval. They are never merely copies, but always have original touches to enhance the diversity of their use.  

These unique braids are designed by the Studio and only used in conjunction with our vestments. They are not commercially available, nor available to any other vestment makers and are reserved under international copyright. *

The braids shewn in the adjacent image are used for orphreys in both the Gothic and Roman  styles of vestments designed and made by the Studio.



A key to the illustrated braids :

  1. Maria Regina
  2. English Rose
  3. Saint Columba
  4. Chi Rho
  5. Saint James
  6. Stella
  7. Saint Marie
  8. Saint Austin
  9. Welbye
  10. Saint George
  11. Saint Edmund (green/red)
  12. Salisbury
  13. Saint Edmund (silver/red)
  14. Saint Chad (green/red)
  15. Saint Giles
  16. Rosa Antiqua
  17. Lux Aeterna
  18. Saint Dunstan
  19. Saint Chad (blue/red).

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Enquiries : stbede62@gmail.com


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* This measure has been necessary because of an unpleasant experience in which a manufacturer misappropriated one of the Studio's unique designs and then sold it for his own commercial gain. 

Friday 6 May 2022

Newsletter of the Saint Bede Studio


The Studio Newsletter has just been circulated.  The twists and turns of 2021 resulted in our not publishing a newsletter last year.

If you usually receive the Newsletter, but have not, please contact us.

If you would like to receive the Newsletter, please contact us.

The Newsletter is written and typeset entirely by the Saint Bede Studio.  Its images are also produced by the Studio.

Address : stbede62@gmail.com

 

Monday 2 May 2022

Fortescue comments on the Eighteenth century (re-posted)

Father Adrian Fortescue
"In the eighteenth century a desolating wave of bad taste passed over Europe.  It gave us Baroc churches, tawdry gilding, vulgarities of gaudy ornament instead of fine construction.  It passed over clothes and gave us our mean, tight modern garments.  And it passed, alas! over vestments too, and gave us skimped, flat vestments of bad colour, outlined in that most impossible material, gold braid, instead of the ample, stately forms which had lasted until then....For these curtailed shapes are not the historic ones which came down hardly modified for so many centuries. They are a quite modern example of Baroc taste...Skimped chasubles, gold braid and lace are not Roman; they are eighteenth century bad taste."

So wrote one of the most illustrious ecclesiastical scholars of the early twentieth century, the Rev'd Dr Adrian Fortescue. This is an extract from a lecture which he gave to the Altar Society of Westminster Cathedral in 1912. Dr Fortescue's name is, somewhat regrettably, better known for the ceremonial manual which he prepared in order to raise money for the building of his Parish church : The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, which has run into many editions, over an entire century.

Dr Fortescue made these counter-cultural comments more than a century ago, but each new generation of Catholics, believing it has the true interpretation of Tradition, has to be reminded of them afresh.