David Hill's Cope

My dear friend David is at East Dereham Church.
He's a great patron & wanted a Cope to use for weddings that would outdo the bride !!! David's an East Anglian lad through & through and thus wanted the emblem of St Edmund on the hood; the crown with arrows, symbolising his martyrdom by being shot through with arrows.

The crown shape was built up with wadding first then covered in two sections with gold kid.
Here's the back showing the amount of couching to hold down the applique.


Adding the Morse...
The long Orphreys of red crushed velvet.
The finished hood attached with buttons with crowns on them...

David looking very regal in our not-so-regal living room.