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Frontal Construction Manual – A Comprehensive Resource for the construction, use, and care of antependiums, by Elizabeth Morgan
Many assume that making a church frontal is a simple task, but these intricate and highly structured pieces require careful planning, precise construction techniques, and a proper ordering of steps to keep them from becoming a frustrating undertaking.
This comprehenive manual fills a great void in available Liturgical Sewing resources, a frustration that Elizabeth Morgan resolved by tackling the subject herself. Bringing together decades of experience and outside-the-box solutions to common frontal problems, her meticulous sewing instructions. provide everything you need to understand and execute a well-made frontal, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced church seamstress. After working through your frontal with this manual your other vestment projects will likely gain a more professional finish as well, because these techniques apply to many other areas of liturgical sewing.
What’s Inside:
Frontal Construction Instructions
• A complete guide to building a traditional altar frontal, with common mistakes identified and solved
• Several different design options
• Common pitfalls to avoid
• Methods of attaching frontals to altars
• Various ways to properly store frontals
Orphrey Construction
How to design, construct, and properly attach orphreys with precision for the best presentation of these frontal embellishments. Most of the content of this section would also apply to orphreys for chasubles and dalmatics.
Frontal Worksheet
A planning tool for calculating measurements, marking layout details, and corralling fabric and galloon information.
Work Table Construction
Instructions for building work tables from full scale to temporary setups, with helpful features that address the difficulties of managing both the creation and ironing of large frontals and altar cloths.
Proceeds from your purchase benefit the
Canons Regular of St. John Cantius.