The atelier Sacra Domus Aurea has been busy over the past year and so it seemed like we should take a few moments to feature some of their most recent works, coming in different forms and different liturgical colours, but each of them strike me as very good examples of contemporary vestment work that draws its direct inspiration from the Roman as well as French liturgical traditions.
I have opted to separate the vestments by liturgical colour as that might make it easier for our readers to make comparisons of the different styles and types of vestments. Many of these vestments are embroidered, while others rest on the use of qualitative silks.
As this is intended as a general survey, we shall leave the comments to a minimum. (Where comments are to be made, they will be made as captions to the images themselves).
We shall begin our considerations with green
GREEN
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| A classic, 18th-19th cent. Italianate embroidered design ona beautiful emerald green silk |
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| This one is quite elegant, using a different shade of green that has been accented by silver embroideries in place of galloons. The style is akin to what one might see in the late 17th or 18th century. |
VIOLET
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| Beautifully embroidered in the Roman tradition and done on an elegant Roman purple silk. |
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| This particular chasuble follows more of a French style with its shape, its lush purple velvet and Cross on the back of the chasuble. |
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| This particular chasuble uses a shade of purple that the Ambrosians call "morello" -- a shade which can, of course, be used in the Roman rite as another shade of violet/purple. |
WHITE
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| Floral silk lampas where especially popular in the 18th century and this style has found renewed interest within the 21st. |
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| This chasuble, at first glance, may seem quite straightforward, but it is worth highlighting a particularly noteworthy feature; namely, it employs a silk that is a replica of that used in vestments of the Barberini pope, Urban VIII . This silk is exclusively available from this atelier. |
RED
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| This particular design features both embroidery and silk-painintg, featuring various martyrs. |
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| An embroidered chasuble in the 19th century French style. |
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| Two 19th century French influenced chasubles made of burgundy red velvet. |
BLACK
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| A 'memento mori' cope in black and silver |
Evidently, this is only a small sampling of some of this atelier's more recent work. If you'd like to see more, we would invite you to visit their website or follow them on social media.
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