Sombrereria Medrano in Madrid - Since 1882

June 13, 2013, 5:26 am

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On 7th June I visited Mr Beltrán Medrano-Tomás in his shop in Madrid.

In the past I published some article about the wonderful religious hats this very talented craftsman is creating:

Price-Lists of a Sombrereria Eclesiástica, Madrid

The "Cura Español" from Sombrereria Medrano

Spanish Solideo for a Cardinal

Cappello Romano (Saturno) versus the Spanish "Sombrero de Teja"

He belongs to the best of his profession. Here some impressions:

I never saw such a hughe range of ancient patterns to make birettas, bonetes and soli deo.

Patterns to make birettas

The differences are in the form and dimension of the horns/blades/wings

and the height of the biretta itselfs.

The last pictures shows the pattern of the biretta of Cardinal Enrique Pla y Deniel.

Mr Medrano with me in this workshop

With his talented hands Mr Medrano also makes little hats (miniatures):

Mini bonete

Mini sombrero de teja (cappello romano, saturno)

They can be used as a souvenir or for decoration of statues.

See as well my article:

Mini Birettas as a Souvenir

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Serviclero (Former Cooperativa Nacional del Clero) in Madrid

June 15, 2013, 8:45 am

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On 10th June I visted Mr Javier Castelo in the workshops of Serviclero in Madrid, Spain.

They also provide very high quality Spansih bonetes to the clergy.

Here some pictures:

Three Birettas

June 24, 2013, 12:41 pm

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Some very nice birettas.

2 made of brocade fabric.

The Catholic Herald

June 25, 2013, 5:18 am

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The Catholic Herald published an article about the collection.

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The Catholic Herald is a very informative and worth reading newspaper.

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Imam Sarığı Worn by the Grand Mufti of Perm

June 27, 2013, 8:22 am

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MukhammedgaliHazratHuzin (Мухаммедгали хазрат ХУЗИН), Grand Mufti of Perm, SU

Imam Sarığı (head covering worn by an Islamic imam)

Green is the traditional color of the Islam

Sombrero Arzobispal Lana

July 1, 2013, 7:46 am

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On 8th June I bought this very special "Sombrero Arzobispal Lana" in the shop of

Casa Yustas, Madrid, Spain.

The hat was made by Artesania PONS OLIVER, Alicante, Spain

The Chapel Veil or Prayer Veil (or Mantilla)

July 2, 2013, 8:10 am

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By coincidence I found a nice picture on the page of

Saint Francis Veil Company, Veneta, Oregon, USA

showing the Vergin Mary covering her head with a veil.

You will find detailed information here.

Caravaggio: Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus, 1608/09

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France

Mary with veil

Caravaggio: Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu, 1608/09, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy

Caravaggio: Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu, 1608/09, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy

In church:

© pictures: Orbis Catholicus

In presence of the Pope:

Jacqueline Kennedy and John XIII

Queen Elisabeth II in the Vatican

The Spanish Mantilla is a veil fixed over a high comb (peineta):

© picture: Orbis Catholicus

A free download of Paul K. William's book here.

More information and pictures:

Those headcoverings blog

"Will you mantilla with me?"

Academic Caps of the University of Durham

July 12, 2013, 7:44 am

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Academic garb of the University of Durham

Mortarboard, tricorn hat with golden tassel, John Knox cap with pompon

(click to enlarge)

Get a copy of this wonderful book:

Goff, Philip: University of London - Academic Dress

The University London Press, London 1999

ISBN 0-7187-1608-6

Erasmus of Rotterdam

(Painting by Hans Holbein)

John Knox cap is worn by humanists and university doctors of XVI century.

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Fashion Headcoverings - Louis Vuittion (1)

July 15, 2013, 7:52 am

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Biretta

Spanish Bonete

Pileolus (Zucchetto, soli deo)

Imam Sarığı Worn by the Islamic Dignitaries of Perm

July 19, 2013, 4:24 am

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© picture: Bezformata

Islamic dignitaries of Perm, Russia

See as well the article:

Imam Sarığı Worn by the Grand Mufti of Perm

Imam Sarığı (head covering worn by an Islamic imam)

Green is the traditional color of the Islam

Imam Sarığı

model in dark green

Josef Freinademetz and John of Nepomuk

August 16, 2013, 7:36 am

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During August I made some holiday in Ortisei, South Tyrol, Italy,
the home of the famous wood carvers.
 

In the retail shop of Albert Comploj I bought 2 very nice wood figures:

 

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Saint Joseph Freinademetz

 

Joseph Freinademetz wearing his Mao-Tzû

See my article:

Mao-Tzû or the Chinese "小瓜帽"

 

I nearly every church in the Val Gardena you find a painting of this Saint.

 

St. Ulrich, Ortisei

 

 La cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Cassiano

Brixen

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2.

Saint John of Nepomuk

 

 

The wood carver did not carved the biretta in the correct way:

The left blade (wing, horn) should be at the back side.

Sombrero Arzobispal by Sombrereria Medrano

August 17, 2013, 8:03 am

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In July I wrote an article about

the Sombrero Arzobispal Lana.

Here some impressions of such a sombrero de teja mabe by

Mr Beltrán Medrano-Tomás, Madrid.

The Living Church

August 19, 2013, 2:04 am

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The Language of Vesture
Written by Peter Eaton

 

The Very Rev. Peter Eaton is the dean of St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, and a member of the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations.

You can read the article here.

The Living Church is a very informative and worth reading newspaper.

Think about a subscription!

More information here.

The Papal Tiara

August 20, 2013, 2:00 am

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Nice movie about the papal tiara

 



About the tiara of H.H. Pope emeritus Benedict XVI
read:

Tiara Pope Benedict XVI

Pagh (પાઘ) - Swaminarayan Hindu Tradition

August 22, 2013, 8:40 am

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Pagh  - Swaminarayan Hindu Tradition

 

 The pagh (pronounced ‘paagh’; પાઘ) is a traditional head covering worn by all sadhus of the Swaminarayan denomination of Hinduism.The denomination was founded in the early nineteenth century by Bhagwan Swaminarayan in western India.

A pagh is made from a simple, very fine piece of cotton fabric, measuring around 100 inches by 100 inches, which is tied around a head covered by a small skull-cap. The tying itself is something of an art form, because it employs no stitches, pins or fasteners, yet a pagh can remain firm and intact for years.

 

The pagh is worn by Swaminarayan sadhus when they go outside of the temple on official religious duty, and also during special rituals and assemblies. The orange or saffron colour of the pagh matches the untailored robes worn by sadhus. Saffron is a colour which is traditionally associated in Hinduism with sacrifice and renunciation. It also symbolises fire. Sadhus are reminded by their saffron attire to burn their worldly desires and remain fervent against enticements which might distract them from their service to God and Society.

 

 

His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj (પ્રમુખ સ્વામી મહારાજ)

the Guru of the BAPS Swaminarayan order of the Swaminarayan tradition.

He is wearing a traditional Hindu pagh and holding a small metallic sacred image of Bhagwan Swaminarayan.

 

John-Louis Cardinal Tauran



receiving traditonal Welcome at the Mandir (‘Neasden Temple’, North-west London)

during his visit on 13th June 2013

 

 

 

 

His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj

wearing a winter hat

 

 

Visit the Mandir, when you are in the London area:

 

 

 

Acknowledgements

 

Many thanks to Mr. Yatin Mavani of BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden, London, UK,

for his kind and competent support.

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Cantor's Hat worn in Spain

August 23, 2013, 3:28 am

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In the past, I published several articles about the Jewish cantor's hat.

 

Here a model Jewish cantor's used in Spain in former times.

 

 

 

Jewish Cantor's hat

August 26, 2013, 2:16 am

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During August I made some holiday in Merano, South Tyrol, Italy.

 

In the Jewish Museum I saw three cantor hats on display.

 

 

 

 

Head Coverings of the Kawass

August 30, 2013, 1:18 am

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 In April 2011 I wrote an article about the

Barett of the Kirchenschweizer.

 

In Jerusalem you can see something similar:

The kawass (or kavas, chawwas, qawwās, کاواس)

Today kawasses  are men which protect in a symbolic way a Christian procession in Jerusalem.

 

During the Ottoman empire the kawasses were some kind of:

guards of honour

protection officers (bodyguards)

armed constables or couriers

consular guards in the countries of the eastern Mediterranean

The original Arabic word "qawwās" means bowman.
 

Kawass of the Ethioppian Orthodox Church

red tarboush - طربوش (fez) with cross on top 

Kawasses in Jerusalem wearing a red tarboush - طربوش (fez)

  

 During a procession of the Armenian Apostolic Church the kawasses often not wear a tarboush - طربوش (fez). The tarboush (fez) would remind them of the Armenian Genocide.
They wear some black hats similar to a Jinnah cap. 

 

Kawass at the consulate

Foto Hentschel Leipzig Jerusalem 1904
 

© picture: Flickr

An Arab kawass (an Ottoman Lieutenant assigned to all foreign travellers) seated in a garden of a Jerusalem house with a little boy in his care.

Jesuit Biretta

September 2, 2013, 7:22 am

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 Here 2 pictures of a Jesuit biretta made by

Mr Beltrán Medrano-Tomás, Madrid
These model was worn by the Jesuits in Spain.

 

 

The above biretta was made according the ancient pattern:

 

 

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Biretta in black with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a tongue worn by friars of the

 Society of Jesus (S.J., Jesuits) according:

 

Barbier de Montault, Xavier:

Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques selon la tradition romaine, Band 1: Règles générales, le costume usuel, le costume de chœur, Letouzey et Ané, Paris, ca. 1900

page 233, fig. 33, (click on the picture to enlarge)

 



Biretta worn by Benedict Blommaerts

September 3, 2013, 11:44 am

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Portrait of Cardinal Benedict Blommaerts (I don't think that he was a cardinal?)

half-length turned to the left, facing towards the viewer; wearing a biretta, mozzetta and a rochet in his hands he holds a necklace with cross; after Jacobus van Reesbroeck; 1635-1704 (c.)

© picture: British Museum

Lettered below image:

"Admondum Reverendo Amplissimoqe ... Abbato longe Dignissimo."

Lettered with motto in scroll underneath arms:

"floris aparvervnt"

lettered with production details at bottom left:

"Jac. van Reesbroeck pinxit et fecit."

Very tall biretta with 4 blades (wings, horns).

In this context see as well:

© Praemonstratensian
(Norbertines)

Anglo-Catholic clergy tend to make up their own dress-rules, keeping vaguely to pre-conciliar norms and adding to them when it suits them. What they refer to as the Augustinian biretta is double height (14 cm) of a normal biretta. They get this from the Norbertine picture of the friar with the very tall biretta, and have adapted it to the black biretta.

© Domus Birretarum

© Domus Birretarum

© Facebook "Fans del Bonete"
Anthony Murley
"Un bonete augustino anglicano, en la tradicion del colegio de sacerdotes de la Sagrada Casa de Walsingham, como se puede apreciar en Fr Alfred Hope Patten, en los primeros anio de 1950."

The Augustinian Biretta or "Father Alfred Hope Patten Biretta" or "CSA (Colegio San Agustín) Biretta" is much more higher (14 cm) than the Ambrosian biretta.

Fr Patten (the priest wearing the cope in the middle) assisted by Fr Bales

and Fr Michael Smith

© Archives of The Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham

Augustinian Biretta or "Father Alfred Hope Patten Biretta" or "CSA (Colegio San Agustín) Biretta" made of black silk with moiré-effect, 3 horns (blades, wings) and a ruby pompon. Inside it is lined with red cotton.

Normal (7-8 cm)  -  Ambrosian (9-10 cm)  -  Augustinian (13-14 cm)