This commission was for a white Ordination stole for the summer 2021. The client had a number of ideas for their stole and after the ideas and initial designs were shared it was decided to have a design that reflected…
Author: Elaine Bradshaw
Gnarled Trees
This commission is for an Ordination taking place in the summer, all being well ! It is in ivory silk dupion with machine appliqued trees. The trunk is worked in my ‘cutting away’ technique and the leaves are free-machined in…
Portland Bill
This stole had a number of different elements to it, the first and most tricky being the brief !! I was asked if I could incorporate the Portland Bill lighthouse, the sea, a reference to Portland stone quarried in the…
Rainbow Butterflies
This stole was commissioned by a daughter for her mum. There is a sad story behind it. I was originally asked to replicate a stole that had been commissioned by her grandmother for her mother before she passed away. She…
Lutyens Chasuble
I have been quite busy recently with a commission and two design projects for future Ordination stoles but I am finally able to begin the white chasuble commissioned by my sister to pair with her stole. Although I already had…
Ordination Stoles 2021
Welcome to visitors old and new to my website. I wanted to make you aware my order book for 2021 Ordination stoles is already starting to fill up with enquiries. As I work completely by myself the number of commissions…
I Will Pour Out My Spirit
This is my most recent commission, for an ordination stole. I was asked to include the words ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people’ and flames as a starting point for the design. My first designs had flames…
Do This In Remembrance
After a socially distanced discussion with the client (which was initially for some face masks!) He put me in touch with his nephew who the cloth was to be commissioned for. He chose the words ‘Do this in remembrance of…
Do This In Remembrance Of Me
I haven’t been able to put very much on my website for quite a while what with one thing or another but recently I have been asked to complete two commissions, which has been brilliant. I love the challenge of…
Couching the Tree of Life
Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on my latest commission – the Celtic Tree of Life Stole. This commission came from Waterford in Ireland, so my first international client! I was asked to reflect the elements of…