Gerard Arens holds a washable mitre developed and sold at the House of Hansen in Chicago April 1, 2021. The store has been providing garments for ministers in Catholic churches and other denominations ...

Going from Italian couture to Vatican vestments has been a spiritual journey. Ety Cicioni, shown below measuring and cutting a pattern for some of the new cardinals who were inducted by Pope Francis ...

The House of Hansen, an unassuming small business in Chicago, makes and supplies vestments and liturgical wear -- like bishops' mitres and zucchettos -- to clergy locally and around the country. It is ...

Researchers have recreated medieval Christian Nubian royal and clerical garments based on 1,200-year-old cathedral murals from Faras, using only historically accurate fabrics and dyes. The project, ...

Wippell & Co began in Devon in 1789, starting out as a grocer on Fore Street, in Exeter A firm that has manufactured clerical clothing for more than 200 years is closing down. Wippell & Co was founded ...