Christian Religious Church Altar Vestments Embroidery

Description: Victorian era Christian Church Vestment, Altar Coverings & Hangings Embroidery History, Patterns and How to guide. Item Description This ebay listing is for the sale of one CD ROM Titled: Church Embroidery. This CD ROM contain scanned images from 1867 Victorian era book. Please read details further down the page. More details about this CD Publication:215 pages in PDF file format. Allows up to 300% magnification viewing of the pages. Allows printing and copying. Written by A Dolby in 1867, embroider to the Queen of England. Contents: I. Introduction II. The Holy Altar, and its Adornment III. Eight Altars illustrated, and described for different kinds of needlework, Directions for executing colored frontispiece of hanging for feasts of our Lord IV. Super-frontals- Ornamental Crosses for Frontals V. Monograms (various) Powderings, Pulpit and Desk-hangings VI. Sermon-cases, Band-cases, Book covers, Alms bags, Alms Dish Mats, Church Book Markers VII. Church Linen, Altar and other Cloths, Pouncing and Drawing patterns on linen for ancient embroidery. How to prepare designs on cardboard for church embroidery. VIII. Applique, or Applied work, instructions for preparation of appliqué in every material IX. Embroidery Frames, framing work generally, how to use the hands at the frame. Proper implements for church embroidery. X. Remarks on Gold, gold bullion embroidery, passing, its use illustrated from photographs of 13 old stitches. XI. Embroidery Silks, Directions for long-stitch embroidery, French knots with practical illustration. XII. Textile fabrics for robbing the Altar, correct church colors and shades. In every field of endeavor there are a few works explaining detailed tradecraft that stand above the others so brilliantly as to make them the hands down authorities or references for that particular tradecraft or art, and this is, indeed one such tome. What this is, actually, is a very robust and detailed explanation and documentation of both history, patterns and methods of making church and ecclesiastical draping, textiles, adornments, and such. A wonderfully detailed explanation of styles from each area and country of mostly Europe. with the how to and colors and methods for each. Bit of history along the way. Great if you want to recognize the era and methods for dating the textiles of the church, great for reproducing them if you an artist or contractor for a church. Moreover, this is a great study of the methods and times when such beautiful works were considered as works of exceptional talent and discipline, contributions of a spiritual nature to the Church and God. A time when people put so much into the Churches in the hope of escalating societies and humanity to future evolution and betterment, is indeed, a time worth remembering and reproducing the crafts and arts from. Yes, these patterns are just the traditions of the past, but they are, in reality, more than that, they are the patterns and methods men and women worked their hearts and souls out to make, to beautiful and glorify the Churches. an attempt to contribute, in their way, to the spiritual evolution of humanity. That alone makes this tome worth a read and reflection. That is also is a superb documentary and instructional and how to of this era of ecclesiastical textiles and embroidery and other techniques. Religious or not, place give a nod of thanks to those from our past who did their best to build a better and more beautiful world and churches in the hope of inspiring their peers of their era and those of future eras to look for beauty, love, spiritual values, knowledge, and to work also for a better world. About our CD ROM Publication: CD ROM plays on your computer and is Windows and MAC computer compatible. This is an easy to use computer CD ROM publication in the popular Adobe PDF file format which can be view by using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF file is very easy to use. You can enlarge the pattern pages on your computer screen, you can also print out select pages you are working on in the size that is easy for you to read. This CD ROM is elegantly packaged and makes a wonderful gift! Customer Testimonials and Reviews: Hi, I just want to tell you I received the CD today! I absolutely love your elegant packaging! I think I will get another CD to give as a gift for my best friend who is crazy about crochet! Sue H. Dear folks at Patterns-on-CD, thank you for shipping the cd out so quickly. I am new at crocheting and I am finding the instructions very clear and easy to follow! Your CD is so easy to use. I can print out just the pages I am working on and scribble my notes on the print-out without worry. My dog chewed part of the pattern sheet I was working on, but no worries, I just print out another sheet! I am keeping the print outs in a 3 ring binder and even printed the lace images I like for the binder cover. Thank you for making this rare antique book available on CD ROM! Debbie B. Other Products We Offer: If you like this CD, you will also enjoy our other craft patterns CD products! You can find our other CD titles by visiting our Ebay Store. NOTICE TO EBAY ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ALL our products and publications are fully compliant with Ebay intellectual property policies. All are also compliant with and congruent with US trademark law, patent law, trade law, copyright law, and are fully cmpliant with US intellectual property law and code in all regards. We rigoursly validate our rights to legally market a product or own the rights to the product, license it legally, or develop the intellectual proprerty ourselves. This product contains content that has been derived from public domain. We have validated the original content is in fact in the public domain. Original copyright period August 9th 1867 to August 9th 1947. Our modification and restoration process has resulted in our creating a new work (restored or annotated or improved work) that gives us a clear and novated copyright to this modified version. Our publications are derived directly from the original publication itself, then modified and digitally restored. They are not derived from any other individual or corporate work under copyright by any other Seller or publisher. Seller Policies : Payment Method Paypal: We accept Paypal. Please make your payment within 7 days. You can also make a credit card payment through the Paypal system even if you didn't have a Paypal account. Shipping Information To comply with Ebay policy this item can only be delivered by postal mail, not via any on lineDelivery methods. 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