It has been a little while since we've had the opportunity to feature some new vestment work, and with the Feast of Immaculate Conception being just yesterday, it seemed an opportune time to feature a bespoke commission that Talleres de Arte Granda recently completed for a priestly client.
Granda offers the following comments for context:
It is tradition for the ordinand to wear a festive chasuble, often with a special design, featuring iconography and symbols important to him.The ordinand provided us with a design inspired by various works of art. The fretwork is from the rich mantle that the Virgin of the Tabernacle of Toledo wore at her coronation. The central image of the Virgin comes from the papal mitre used in the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, but her face is the one Velázquez composed for his famous Coronation of the Virgin.The chasuble follows a monastic pattern and is made of natural silk shantung in white and blue. The Virgin is hand-embroidered with shading and appliqué.
It was indeed the monastic aspect of this design that 'stopped the scroll' for me, as it was something I have come to recognize from some of the more interesting vestment work of the Liturgical Movement of the monasteries of the first half of the twentieth century -- that and the beautiful Marian and angelic imagery and rich palatte of gold and blue colours found on and around the orphreys.
We offer it here for your consideration.
To see more of Granda's work, please visit their website or find them on social media.
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