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Maniple

1848-1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
A.W. Pugin (designer)
Powell, Lucy (maker)
Place of origin
Birmingham (made)

Red silk velvet maniple embroidered with gold thread and coloured silks, and edged with gold metal fringe.

Object details

Categories
Religion
Ecclesiastical Textiles
Embroidery
Europeana Fashion Project
Object type
Maniple
Materials and techniques
Silk velvet embroidered with gold and coloured silks, and metal fringe
Silk (Textile)
Metal Thread
Silk Thread
Embroidered
Velvet
Brief description
Red silk velvet maniple, designed by A.W.N. Pugin, probably made by Mrs Lucy Powell, Birmingham, 1848-1850
Physical description
Red silk velvet maniple embroidered with gold thread and coloured silks, and edged with gold metal fringe.
Style
Gothic Revival
Production typeUnique
Gallery label
(27/03/2003)
British Galleries:
COPE AND HOOD

A. W. N. Pugin was a Roman Catholic architect with a crusading mission to revive Gothic as the only morally right style of decoration. He designed these vestments for his own church, St Augustine's, Ramsgate, Kent. His zeal for promoting the Gothic style influenced many churches, not just those that were Roman Catholic.
Credit line
Given by St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
Object history
Registered File number 1989/1219.
Maniple designed by Pugin as part of the vestments (T.297 to J-1989) he designed for his own church, St Augustine's in Ramsgate. It is known that Lucy Hardman, sister of John Hardman supervised the vestment making at the Hardman's premises from 1842 to 1848. Pugin's diaries and accounts mention her frequently. It is known that the Lucy and Winefred Brown worked with Mrs Powell during the latter part of the 1840s so may also have been involved in making the vestments for Ramsgate. Following Pugin's death the church passed to the Benedictine Order who presented the vestments to the Museum in 1989.
Production
Made for St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.

Reason For Production: Private
Associated object
T.297F-1989 (Set)
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.297H-1989

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Record createdApril 14, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O224388/maniple-aw-pugin/
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