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A young volunteer making a stole at a Guild event. |
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Making a burse, at a Guild event. |
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A young volunteer making a stole at a Guild event. |
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Making a burse, at a Guild event. |
The Guild of St Clare is delighted to announce a new one day course at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace, making a quarter size Roman chasuble. The tuition will be provided by RSN tutor Heather Lewis, who has led previous Guild of St Clare courses at the Royal School of Needlework in ecclesiastical goldwork, stole-making and burse-making. This is a remarkable opportunity to learn the skills necessary for making a chasuble, using traditional hand-construction techniques.
It will take place on 19th March between 10am and 4pm. The price of the course is £145 including materials. Tea and coffee are provided; you will need to bring a packed lunch, or you can visit one of Hampton Court Palace's cafes.
Places are strictly limited: book now to avoid disappointment.
For more information please email Lucy on lucyashaw@gmail.com, or book through the registration link on the LMS website.
The Guild of St Clare has been commissioned to make new pieces for a number of incomplete Low Mass Sets: maniples, chalice veils, burses and stoles. We are looking for volunteers willing to help with this work: materials will of course be provided. For each completed new piece, we will give the maker a discount of 30% to use when booking our twice annual sewing retreats (up to a maximum of 60% off per retreat).
A young member makes a Roman Purple maniple using the traditional soft-mount technique |
Applying braid with a sewing machine |
For more information, or to volunteer, please email Lucy at lucyashaw@gmail.com.
Chalice veil and burse made at the first Guild of St Clare Sewing Retreat, for the LMS Red High Mass Set |
Our most recent sewing retreat took place at Douai over the weekend of 12th-14th November. Douai has reduced the maximum number of retreatants, so we were a small gathering of twelve, including our chaplain Fr Stephen Dunn, who very kindly travelled all the way from Glasgow to be with us.
We achieved a huge amount of work: two maniples and a chalice veil were among the new pieces which were made, as well as significant repairs to the LMS violet High Mass set, and the patching of the Guild's own green Low Mass set.
It was a pleasure to welcome several retreatants who were new to sewing, as well as old hands whose skills were very much needed.
We were also delighted to see both winners of the Guild of St Clare sponsorship scheme to the Royal School of Needlework: the advanced skills they are developing are of material use to the Guild of St Clare.
Our next retreat is 4th-6th February 2022, at a new venue: Park Place Pastoral Centre. Our chaplain is Fr Stephen Morrison, a great friend of the Guild of St Clare. Click here to book online or email Lucy at lucyashaw@gmail.com for more details.
Many thanks to Michael Dennison for the photographs
We are delighted to announce that the Guild of St Clare is collaborating with the Royal School of Needlework to provide a special online one day course in stole-making.
This is a unique opportunity to learn the skills necessary to vestment-making. The tuition will be provided by RSN tutor Heather Lewis, who has led previous Guild of St Clare courses at the Royal School of Needlework in ecclesiastical goldwork and burse-making.
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Heather Lewis at the Guild of St Clare burst-making day, February 2020 |
The date is the 30th October 2021, and the course will run between 10am and 4pm. Thanks to our long-standing relationship with the RSN, we are able to offer this course at a reduced price which, excluding the materials, is £108. Online booking for this event is now open: click here to register.