Liturgical screed silk embroidery with gold flowers IHS son Evellin House twentieth
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Superb liturgical screed * of gold, silk and cloth, decorated with gold embroidery son floral, chaperone initial IHS House Evellin in Rennes, period first half of the twentieth century.
This screed is in very good condition and is of outstanding quality. It bears the manufacturer's label.
A note: tiny time wear, see photos.
Long garment ceremony, open front, usually semicircular, worn over the alb and used for papal Masses and other solemn ceremonies like some vespers, processions and blessings of the Holy Sacrament. Originally, the screed could include a cap, the chaperone shaped cloth enforcement decorated apron and lined with fringes, it carries the reverse, is a relic. The screed is often bordered on the front of a braid or a strip of fabric, sometimes with a setting called orphrey. It is kept closed by one or two metal buckles. The screed is often silk and its color varies according to the liturgical season. (See website archives.cg31.fr)
The gold is the color of the precious light. This color is used during the most important holidays: Easter and Christmas. For the time "ordinary", which is also called "the time of the Church", the Church uses the green.