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Woven with Devotion: A Closer Look at the Abbey Range in the Tradition of Le Barroux - Watts & Co.
Woven with Devotion: A Closer Look at the Abbey Range in the Tradition of Le Barroux
The Abbey range of liturgical vestments represents a deliberate return to an older, more contemplative mode of sacred design. Inspired by the vestment traditions of the Abbaye Sainte‑Madeleine du Barroux in... Read more...
Pugin's Medievalisms in Three Designs - Watts & Co.
Pugin's Medievalisms in Three Designs
The Watts collection of Pugin fabrics is each a meditation on how mortal hands might weave the eternal — a distinct stage in Pugin's own evolution as a designer as... Read more...
A Very Victorian Inheritance: The Symbolism of our 150th Anniversary Cope - Watts & Co.
A Very Victorian Inheritance: The Symbolism of our 150th Anniversary Cope
We returned to the wellspring of our own tradition, reaching back across a century and a half to the vision of one of our founders, George Frederick Bodley, and to... Read more...
The Feast of the Body - Watts & Co.
The Feast of the Body
Corpus Christi is the feast of the Real Presence, the day when the Church pauses to consider what it holds in the bread and wine consecrated at the altar. Unlike... Read more...
Pentecost: The Happy Red Feast and the Fire of the Spirit - Watts & Co.
Pentecost: The Happy Red Feast and the Fire of the Spirit
Pentecost is an intensely joyful and energetic moment in the liturgical calendar. You are asked to embrace life, look at the trees with the growing blossom, and feel the energy... Read more...
Bodley's Eye for Design: embroidery for St Paul's Knightsbridge - Watts & Co.
Bodley's Eye for Design: embroidery for St Paul's Knightsbridge
Bodley's understanding of the Gothic Revival movement distinguished him from contemporaries. Where others saw an opportunity to copy medieval forms, Bodley sought to recover medieval principles Read more...
Light Made Manifest: A New Vestment Range Inspired by Sainte-Chapelle - Watts & Co.
Light Made Manifest: A New Vestment Range Inspired by Sainte-Chapelle
This spring, we are delighted to present a new range of vestments that translates the visual language of medieval sacred architecture into woven form. Drawing inspiration from the Sainte-Chapelle in... Read more...
Historical Connections: Sir George Gilbert Scott and the Sainte-Chapelle - Watts & Co.
Historical Connections: Sir George Gilbert Scott and the Sainte-Chapelle
Testament to the mutual exchange of ideas of the Gothic Revival movement, in speaking to his student audience at the Royal Academy, Gilbert Scott advised: ‘When you go abroad, begin... Read more...
The Passiontide Cope - Watts & Co.
The Passiontide Cope
The Holy Week ceremonies culminate on Good Friday, and this Passiontide cope stands as a fine example of reverent storytelling in cloth. It is a moving visual Passion narrative to... Read more...
The New Watts & Co. Website - Watts & Co.
The New Watts & Co. Website
Over the last few months, you may have noticed that some things at Watts & Co. have changed — our clerical wear range, our logo, even our showroom. This week,... Read more...
Investing in the Future of Craft: a Conversation in our Workroom - Watts & Co.
Investing in the Future of Craft: a Conversation in our Workroom
In recent years, we have been training a new generation of Watts vestment-makers here at Tufton Street. We turn to Molly, one of our young vestment-makers, to find out more... Read more...
The Feast of All Saints — a Celebration in Embroidery - Watts & Co.
The Feast of All Saints — a Celebration in Embroidery
We have a particularly special creation to share from our workshop. In our latest chasuble, we are calling on the celebration of the entire communion of saints — the known... Read more...