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Green Eucharist Chasuble

6th November 201919th November 2019 Elaine BradshawChasuble, Finished Commissions2 Comments on Green Eucharist Chasuble

Sorry I haven’t published anything for a while & then you get two together. This chasuble was commissioned by my sister to partner her green stole. It features the same grape vine & wheat stems design, with the addition of…

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The Crossed Keys of St Peter

16th January 201927th November 2019 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, Lectern, Pulpit & Altar Falls, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on The Crossed Keys of St Peter

I’ve been working on the Altar and Lectern falls for St Peter’s Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon and wanted to talk about a couple of techniques I’ve used in this design, Appliqué and a special goldwork technique to add a 3D effect to…

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It all starts with a sketch

10th January 201927th November 2019 Elaine BradshawWork in ProgressLeave a Comment on It all starts with a sketch

I was approached back in October about creating an altar & lectern fall for St Peter’s Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon, not something I’ve made before and an interesting new challenge, but where to start? The church asked me to work up a…

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Once I had a little fishy ….

4th October 201719th November 2019 Elaine BradshawWork in ProgressLeave a Comment on Once I had a little fishy ….

The brief I have for this commission is for an altar fall and co-ordinated pulpit fall. The church is St Peter’s, so having spoken with the minister we decided on using the symbolism of fish and the crossed keys of…

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Final flourishes and finishing touches !

3rd October 201719th November 2019 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, StolesLeave a Comment on Final flourishes and finishing touches !

At this stage I am beginning to see that the end is in sight. The applique leaves are ready to be stitched in place. I do this by hand, wearing my very fetching magnifiers, so that I can keep my stitches…

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Autumn Leaves

2nd October 201719th November 2019 Elaine BradshawStoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Autumn Leaves

One of my favourite techniques is ‘reverse applique’. For this stole I have used it on some of the leaves I wanted to give an autumn feel to. I layered the three colours of silks one on top of the…

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A hard lesson learnt!

1st October 201719th November 2019 Elaine BradshawStoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on A hard lesson learnt!

A very salutary lesson was learnt with this stole. I packaged up the silk samples & my full sized original drawing and sent it off 1st class mail to the client. It never arrived !!! This meant going back to…

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From tiny Acorns…

30th August 201719th November 2019 Elaine BradshawStoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on From tiny Acorns…

This stole is my very first true commission and I am both excited and a little trepidatious. I have been asked if I can design something for ‘ordinary time’, so the main colour is to be green. The client wanted…

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The Eucharist

27th June 201717th November 2019 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, StolesLeave a Comment on The Eucharist

Here is my second completed stole.  This stole is in-fact one of an identical pair, made for my sister and brother-in-law. It is made from green silk Dupion, with appliqued grapes and stalks of wheat, symbolising the Eucharist. The stalks…

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