The Polish ecclesiastical tailor Manufactura Vesti Clero has made a name for himself as a gifted vestment maker who offers a variety of other liturgical items including mitres, hand-embroidered armorial bearings, rochets, ornate palls/burses, ciborium veils, and more. The creations are the result of professional work of great quality and artistic merit that deserves high repute outside Poland.
This tailor has a wide portfolio that offers both more classical designs, seen here in photos below, as well as more contemporary designs that are popular in Poland today. As seen with these beautiful vestments, the material of the older Catholic culture that has been replicated is classical, taken from the deposit of classical design. Classical vestment designs employ objective standards of beauty as a means of expression and have universal appeal. I encourage readers to get in touch with the tailor and make a purchase ([email protected]).
Poland has long been at the forefront of beautiful vestments and appointments for the sacred liturgy, since the time it was brought into the society of Western Christendom. The unity of European culture was reinforced by the Latin South and Carolingian West and Polish East (as Italy took the place of Greece), reinforced by the use of Latin as the sacred tongue of the liturgy and the common language of ecclesiastical governance and learning. Also, by the symbolism and imagery of common religious art and by the common ideals and conventions of vestment making and liturgical arts embodied in the cult of the Latin Rite.
In an age of ugliness, where we find ourselves today, such beauty adorning the sacred liturgy is a revolutionary act. A sign of welcome change. Until recently it has been customary to oppose beautiful vestments in antique styles and often to condemn them on that score. It is finally being recognized in many quarters that these beautiful old styles are far from being opposed to modern taste and they are legitimate heirs of a vast tradition of beauty that is an inheritance and birthright of all Catholics in all nations.
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