Nice work if you can get it

My dear friend Jeremy (Hi Jem) has kindly commissioned me to make a couple of Fiddle back Chasubles sets for his Church at Eye.I have been enjoying myself thoroughly. It's so nice to get the chance to do the best job you can possibly do. It satisfies the perfectionist in me immensely.
Jem has been collecting vestments for a while and had the most beautiful embroidered Maniple that we have cut up & remade into a stole. Maniple's aren't used so often nowadays and can still be found in pretty good condition. The embroidery on this one is very fine, inspired and different on both ends. On a recent trip to Sudbury I managed to score a really expensive green silk at a fraction of it's proper cost. It s making up perfectly. The round motif is from a Cope that Jem has had folded away for a while.
Here's the interlinig going in...
and the lining being put on...
The spade ended stole has the traditional IHS in gold bullion couched on it from another stole that has perished.