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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...
A Radiant Tribute to Mystery: The Rublev Trinity in Thread and Icon - Watts & Co.
A Radiant Tribute to Mystery: The Rublev Trinity in Thread and Icon
To adapt Rublev’s Trinity for embroidery was no small challenge. The icon’s power lies in its restraint, in the luminous stillness of its forms. Capturing that in silk and thread... Read more...
The Peacock - Watts & Co.
The Peacock
There is something deeply symbolic about the deceased peacock that remains tangible to us as Christians. Believed to have originated in India, the primary tradition of the peacock represented royalty... Read more...
Ordination, Pugin, and his Abbey: 'where the old rites may be celebrated in ancient splendour.’ - Watts & Co.
Ordination, Pugin, and his Abbey: 'where the old rites may be celebrated in ancient splendour.’
In honour of Petertide – the feast day marking the martyrdom of the fisher of men – at Watts, we have Ordination on the mind. Whilst one may look to... Read more...
Our Lady of Walsingham - Watts & Co.
Our Lady of Walsingham
The image of Our Lady of Walsingham has very specific iconography which, through intricate embroidery work, we have sought to accurately include. Read more...