A monk, an Episcopalian sister and a 'typical clergy spouse' talk about their experiences pursuing textile arts and the Divine:
A monk, an Episcopalian sister and a "typical clergy spouse" talk about their experiences pursuing textile arts and the Divine.Brother Aidan Owen got into knitting because he needed a "winter sport."
"It connected so many of these various threads in my life because I was really plugging into the ecological aspects of spirituality," he explains. "I had my Christian spirituality, I had the ecological stuff, and then I had creativity and making things. And it all came together in knitting because you're literally clothing yourself with stuff from the earth."
"The Anglican church is particularly good, in my view, for celebrating beauty in worship," Roach says on the phone. "There's long been a sense that making things celebrates the glory of God in creation... cathedrals were created to provide people with a little taste of heaven. Textiles have always been part of that."
Vestments in particular are used to communicate something about the people leading the services, Roach says. While some of the most famous churches in the world are led by charismatic personalities who have become celebrities in their own right , the kinds of churches Roach is commissioned by use vestments to create a somewhat opposite effect.
At age 73, Sister Catherine Grace comes from a different generation of textile artists than Brother Aidan — she learned to sew and knit at 4-H and a neighbor rather than from the internet. The fact that she's been an Episcopalian sister for 29 years means she's also witnessed plenty of change in how religious orders approach clothing.
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