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Pollen Panic
Usually sometime during the week after Easter Sunday, a cry of dismay is heard in the sacristy. The new fair linen, chalice pall, corporal, the priest’s new alb, etc. has come back covered in pollen....
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S.O.S. (Save Old Socks)
When the elastic has finally stretched out of your cotton gym socks, give them a new life in the sacristy sock bag! They make great “mitts” on your hands for picking up polished brass, dusting and...
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January Mailbox
A few inquiries have come in this month already. One concerns a white damask chasuble with gold satin lining which has suffered a very extensive wine stain which has “set” from a long time ago. The...
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Zout for red wine stains
If Wine Away, Shout or a mixture of blue Dawn liquid and hydrogen peroxide does not “get the red out”, one of our readers says: “. . .,try ZOUT which is available at local grocery stores . . ....
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Cleaning the thurible
Perhaps the most unpleasant item on the to-clean list of brass or silver is a thurible which has a heavy build-up on the inside of the top. The outside is easily taken care of with MAAS- a product for...
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Can’t find Maas?
Hardware stores and automotive stores, and I hear Crate and Barrel and also William Sonoma stores carry Maas products. If you are having trouble finding it, please visit the official Maas website for...
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“Antique-ing” for the Sacristy
Fourth of July weekend is a great time to be out and about at flea markets, yard sales and antique shops. Who says sacristies cannot also be beautiful as well as orderly, neat, and clean? I enjoy...
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A Christmas Past
While searching out last year’s boxed cards, I found a few photos from 2000 at St. John the Evangelist in Newport. I will post some of these over the next few days leading up to Christmas Eve. This...
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Cleaning a chasuble/Mailbox
At our church ‘Saint Paul the Apostle’, we have a beautiful chasuble which has not been cleaned for a very long time. How do I go about cleaning it? Someone has tried dry-cleaning, and the chasuble...
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Cleaning tips for the white chasuble
Thanks for the photos, Adelaide. (scroll down to see the photo slideshow) I am glad to see the hanger is not one of the wire variety. You might consider padding the ends of the hanger with a little...
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Mail Box reply on Chasuble Cleaning
In reponse to today’s post on Adelaide’s white chasuble, “What can you do if you already dry-cleaned the vestment? Is it ruined for life? Also my fabric is more of a brocade or satin type would you use...
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Vestment Lace
One of my first big undertakings in the sacristy was to restore some old alb laces found in a suitcase in the top of a closet. The strips were tiny brown balls and looked nothing like lace. After...
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