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Bledsian Vestarium Custom Vestments - Creates traditional-style custom vestments, including chasuble, dalmatic, tunicle, stole (both for celebrant and deacon) burse, and chalice veil. Pricing based on item, design and selection of fabric.
Maryweave - Manufactures liturgical vestments made of natural fibers in Maine. List of products, how to order and story.
Simonds Originals - Custom designed, handmade stoles, vestments and church hangings.
Dimitris Ch. Bales - Producer of ecclesiastical jacquard fabrics, embroidered emblems and vestments. Includes photos of products and contact information. Located in Athens, Greece.
Thomas Creative Apparel - Designers and manufacturers of custom-tailored choral, graduation and pulpit robes, and vestments. Includes catalog of products and order information. Located in New London, Ohio.
St Benet Guild - Provides traditionally styled vestments and textile church furnishings to Catholic priests, churches and chapels. Includes photos of projects completed for clients, styles available and contact information. Located in Dayton, Ohio.
Clerical Occasions - Offers handmade copes, stoles and chasubles for priests and clergy, and repairs to church vestments. Includes details of available colors and fabrics. Located in Wiltshire, UK.
CPS Online - Supplier of men's and ladies' clerical shirts and vestments. Located in the UK.
Krista West Vestments and Cassocks - Quality, hand made liturgical vestments for Eastern Orthodox Christian Clergy.
arte/grossé - Specializes in custom designing vestments and paraments, restoration work and church furnishings since 1783. Includes company history and contact information.

Wikipedia Articles

Vestments controversy - The vestments controversy arose in the English Reformation, ostensibly concerning vestments, but more fundamentally concerned with English Protestant identity, doctrine, and various church practices. First initiated by John Hooper's rejection of clerical vestments in the Church of England under Edward VI and revived under Elizabeth I, the controversy sheds much light on the development of English forms ...
Choir dress - Choir dress is the vesture of the clerics, seminarians and religious of traditional churches worn for public prayer, either apart from the eucharist or by those attending the eucharist as the clergy part of the congregation rather than as the celebrants. Choir dress is different from the vestments worn by the celebrants of the eucharist, and is normally made of fabrics such as wool, cotton or silk, as opposed to the fine brocades used in vestments (with the exception of the cope, which is both a vestment and choir dress).
Vestment - Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religions, especially the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Methodists, Lutheran and Anglican Churches. Many other Protestant groups also make use of vestments, but this was a point of controversy in the Protestant Reformation and sometimes since - notably during the Ritualist controversies in England in the 19th century.
Antependium - An antependium (Latin: "to hang before"; pl: antependia), more commonly known as a hanging, or, when speaking specifically of the hanging for the altar, an altar frontal, is a decorative piece of material that can adorn a Christian altar, lectern, pulpit, or table (as opposed to the vestments worn by the minister or priest). Specifically, an antependium hangs down in front of whatever it covers, and must be distinguished from the altar linens which are used in the service of the Eucharist, and an altar cloth which covers the top of the altar table (mensa).
Blackshirts (India) - Blackshirts are members of the Atheist quasi-political organization Dravidar Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, founded by "Periyar" E V Ramasamy. The members wear black shirts to mock and protest the saffron vestments of Hindu religious leaders, and sadhus as black is generally associated with death and bad-luck as opposed to saffron's auspicious association.