Stole embroidered with rich handmade embroidery - STO033

Romanesque stole hand-embroidered in silk and cotton with gold-thread embroidery and gold bullion fringe: a high-craft liturgical vestment for priestly ministry at solemn celebrations.

Main features

• Fabric: silk and cotton
• Embroidery: rich, worked entirely by hand in gold thread
• Style: Romanesque, with elaborate floral and foliate motifs
• Finish: gold bullion fringe at the ends
• Colour: ivory/white with dense gold decoration across the full surface
• Workmanship: hand embroidery by specialist artisans

Liturgical use

The stole is the ministerial sacred vestment par excellence: worn by the priest around the neck and by the deacon over one shoulder, it marks the exercise of ordained ministry. A hand-embroidered silk stole is reserved for solemn celebrations — pontifical Masses, ordinations, patronal feasts — and also makes a gift of high symbolic value for a priestly ordination or a jubilee of priesthood.

Craftsmanship

Hand embroidery in gold thread on silk is one of the most demanding techniques in Italian liturgical craftsmanship: each floral motif of the Romanesque style requires hours of manual work, producing a piece that cannot be exactly replicated in series.