Orthodox / Byzantine Monastic Habits and Clergy Apparel

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ORTHODOX BYZANTINE MONASTIC HABITS, CHURCH & CLERGY APPAREL

              Inner Raso/ Cassock, Greek Style 

Inner raso/rasa/anteri/cassock/podryasnik, (different ethnic/national names for the same garment) double breasted with raised collar, Greek style; This particular photo of the inner raso cassock does not have a raised collar; But we do include the raised collar with the traditional raso.

See the other photos in our monks page in this Blog and in our main site and in this Orthodox/Byzantinegallery.

 The waist cincture can be a matching cloth 3" wide or made of 1" wide string of matching color.

Chest pockets and hip pockets are optional; See price list

                   We do not make the skouphos hat shown above  or kamelavkion hat 

This Orthodox/Byzantine page is still being assembled as new scans of habits & clergy attire are being added through the spring & summer of 2014

Please send comments & email to monks@monasterygarments.com

The prices in this post are subject to change and updated without notice; Call for current prices

INTRO LETTER TO ALL NEW INQUIRIES

Dear Monastic Brothers & Sisters, Reverend Orthodox Clergy; Greetings in Christ,

My I introduce our monastic tailoring service to your Church, clergy, religious orders, hermitages and monasteries; We specialize in traditional, authentic, custom tailored monastic habits for priests, monks, nuns, hermits and various clergy apparel of the Orthodox Churches, Byzantine Rite, Latin Rite and Anglican eccleasiastical and monastic traditions etc.

We sew and sell to the general public and shipped via mail order anywhere in the world.

We do NOT require that you have any religious, monastic or canonical affiliation; We are not a religious institution or a religious order; We are simply professional custom tailors at your service..

Please telephone us today or tomorrow instead of email and we can answer all your questions about habits and your particulars.  We quote prices over the phone and other info about our custom tailored garments.

*We do not take garment orders by telephone

*We do not accept credit cards, PayPal or Quick Pay

*We do not make anything in "one size fits all"

*We do not accept credit cards, Pay-Pall or Quick Pay which is linked to credit cards

*We do not charge tax

* We do not take garment orders by phone but only on our order form, stated clearly & legibly.

*We do not make contracts or promises by phone; You must state everything on the order form.

*All customers must state all garment requests & measurements on our order form clearly, legibly, completely and in a non-confusing manner.  

Please read carefully our order form and orderiing instructions at http://MonksAndNunsHabits.com/OrderForms/order_form.html

Your details and specifics about  habits and clergy apparel cannot be adequately discussed by email or in a web "chat room" format; Only by a 5-10 min. (or longer if need be) initial telephone call; So that we can quote you updated prices by telephone not by email; See our updated prices in this blog in the PRICES link page.

 We prefer communicating by telephone instead of email whenever possible and for initial contacts; The email system is VERY unreliable and subject to frequent, random technical failures and delays and many other related problems including hackers; Including many people mistakenly think that complex discussions of the above habit styles can all  be  discussed in an on line "chat room" format and email trafiic time frame; Unfortunately they cannot; Only adequately discussed by an initial two minute or 5-10 min. TELEPHONE call. There is no substitute for a friendly, warm, cozy human voice with quick response info in a two minute or 5-10 min call which a high-tech PC machine and viewing screen cannot give you. 

Call and ask about our volume discounts and "Two Day Discounts"  which are explained on page one of our order form.

Call us for more details about our monastic habits and clergy apparel, price updates etc; And tell your friends, other hermits, monks and nuns and other clergy you may know about our extensive web site and available styles; And please email a link from our site to your email contacts if possible.

We look forward to being of service to you and your churches, monasteries and hermitages.

 

                VESTMENTS & GARMENTS 

                     FOR THE LATIN RITE

             (Also see our Latin Rite pages)

Due to a Google & Open Office tech error, the price list below got miss-formatted; We will have this corrected in WORD by May 1, 2014

Use the vertical & horozontal scroll down & scroll left & right.

LITURGICAL ALBS & CHOIR ALBS: See Our Vestments Page,  Photo LV-17 etc.

  

Here are prices for liturgical albs & choir albs which can be used for liturgy at the altar or for choirs and individual choral singers & cantors, men, women,  children & special events like Christmas & Easter & Liturgical dramas etc:

ADULT  & CHILD SIZES: Cotton / Poly, pure white, off white, gray, blue, red, navy blue etc:

ADULT SIZE, Standard Alb, , LV-17, unpleated W/raised collar or monastic hood, 10" to 20" vert. open, W/hidden velcro closure at neck:  ..............................................................................................................$150

CLOTH BELT, ADULT SIZE: 2" to 3" wide matching cloth belt/cincture, add .....................................................$20 

Above adult alb W/ flat rim collar, LV-17, ML-13, LV-11, ..........................................................$125

EXTRA WIDE SLEEVES: 30" wide sleeves, per alb, adult size, LV-8, LV-9: add..................................................... $20

CHILD SIZE, Above Alb: W/ Flat rim collar, aprox. 4 ft. tall child, 8" vert. open, W/hidden velcro closure at neck: ...............................................................................................................................$65

CHILD SIZE, 2" to 3" wide matching cloth belt/cincture, add......................................................$15.

CHILD SIZE, Above Alb: LV-17, W/raised collar or monastic hood, aprox. 4 ft tall child, 8" to 15" vert. open, W/hidden velcro closure at neck: .............................................................$85

CHILD SIZE, 2" to 3" wide matching cloth belt/cincture, add.......................................................$15

CHILD SIZE, standard alb, unpleated, flat rim collar, 8" vert. open, W/hidden velcro closure at neck:............................................................................................................................... $65

HIP POCKET, Set of hip pockets; Each pocket can hold 2 wallets, 2 note pads, 2 pens: Add..................................$10

CHEST POCKETS; each chest pocket can hold 2 note pads, 3 pens; 
Add .......................................................$3

EXTRA TALL ADULT SIZE: If you have an adult over 6 ft., 2 inches tall or taller to 7ft. tall,per tunic/alb garment, please add....................................................... $20 .

 If you have an adult whose wast (mid section) is  60" -70" circumference,per alb/tunic garment  please add........................................................................................................ $20 For each 2"-3" wide cloth cincture/belt, add.........................................................$10 .

ABOVE PRICES ARE COTTON / POLY FABRIC EASY WASH & IRON.

RUSH ORDERS: Please fill out the entire order form & state (check box) "Non-Rush Order" or "Rush Order"; Please state your deadline date if its a Rush Order.

See our RUSH ORDER RATES for adult sizes if you need the garments in 30 days or less.

CHILD SIZE Rush Order rates: Call me for rush order price quotes for Child sizes

VOLUME DISCOUNTS & TWO DAY DISCOUNTS; Call for details; Read page 1 of the order form.

PLEASE FILL OUT THE ENTIRE ORDER FORM CLEARLY & LEGIBLY:

Please TELEPHONE us when you have completed the order forms if you have any questions
.

Make check, money order or cashiers check payable only to one party:
"Paul Bernardino", not to "Monastery Garments; Please do not write a 2 party check.

INVOICE: We will email you the INVOICE within 24 hrs. after we receive your payment here or send it with the completed garments or habits; Please state your email address clearly on page 3 of our order form

We look forward to being of service to your church, choir, monastery, hermitage, priory or liturgical celebrations.

CHOIR ROBES & ACOLYTE ROBES & VESTMENTS FOR THE ORTHODOX/BYZANTINE RITE & LATIN RITE

 We tailor various types of choir robes & monastic style choir habits for male & female adults, young adults and children. Prices vary according to several factors:

For adult or child

Style / Structure

Single piece or multi-piece

Full length or shorter or knee length

Pleated or not

Hooded or not

Stiff hood

Semi stiff hood

Soft hood / no lining

Raised collar or flat rim collar

Type of fabric: cotton/poly, poly/wool, 100% wool, 100% cotton

Hip Pockets or not

Chest pockets or not

Cloth cincture: 2" wide or 3-4" wide

Franciscan cord/rope W/3 knots can be used as choir robe cincture (adult size is $25). 

There are so many different styles of choir robes & acylotyte vestment styles spanning over 2000 years of Church history (choose your historic period / style below):

Any of these habits & choir robes can also be used for liturgical drama and orchestra & chamber music groups for Christmas & Easter & special events etc.

Choir Robes In Cotton/poly in any solid color or black:

Byzantine Rite damask ($200 - $300 each) or plain Byzantine full length tunics ($125 - $150 each) (see our Byzantine Rite / Orthodox page)

Early Medeival to Renaissance pleated / Florentine ($85-$100 ea) & unpleated surplices ($65-$85 ea) of the Latin Rite (see our Liturgical Vestment page by mid September 2011.

Pre- Vatican II style (prevelant in 1930's to 1960's) pure white surplices of the Latin Rite, usually pleated knee length or three quarter length, warn over choir cassock, ($75 - $100 each).

CHECK POSSIBLE PRICE TYPO ERRORS HERE:
Monastic style albs w/hoods or without, for male & female choirs & acolytes, clergy and Eucharistic ministers at the altar.(Currently in our Liturgical Vestments page) Adult & young adult size ($125-$150 ea.) (Children size:Unpleated: $50, Pleated: $65 ea.). 

By spring or summer of 2014 we will have color photos of various pleated & unpleated traditional off white, pure white, black, gray, navy blue & medium blue choir surplices & robes, knee length & three quarter length w/ flared angelic sleeves etc. 

We give volume discounts for choir robes; $15 off for two to five multi-piece robes, $20 off for 5-20 multi-piece robes; $10 off for 2 - 5 single piece robes, $15 off for 5-20 single piece robes. 

Discount rate depends on above single piece or multi-piece robes, full length or shorter and other factors.

ALL ABOVE PRICE QUOTES ARE FOR COTTON /  POLY FABRIC

Monastic habits for adults & for all ages can also be used as choir robes & special events.

(See our Monks page)

Call for price quotes in poly wool & 100% wool fabric. The price also depends on your details & details listed above.

** If you do not see in our websites what you are looking for in choir robe use, you are welcome to submit a simple line diagram of choir robe etc and email it to me soon. Then I can quote you a price and volume discount; And please state if you want pleated or unpleated; And we can work out a package deal that can suite your church or monastery budget. 

To order anything from us, you must fill out the entire order form (typed or ink pen and send it with payment to our unpublished workshop address). 

If you see any other email address on our web site such as Gothicg or a Yahoo email address, it is OUTDATED and will be removed soon. We prefer communicating with you initially by telephone instead of email; We prefer the personal, human touch.

Would you like to have your web site linked to our site & vis-versa? Please call for info.

Our new blog is www.monasterygarments.blogspot.com

PAYMENT METHODS: (Choose one below:)
The most efficient way to send your payment is DIRECT DEPOSIT

1) DIRECT DEPOSIT from a Bank of America or Chase Bank in your city to my Bank of America or Chase account or  here in northern California. The Bank of America and Chase bank accepts only CASH over the counter for a "walk in the bank" deposit- NOT credit cards to make a direct deposit. Call us for info to make a "walk in the bank" deposit to pay for a garment order.

2) U.S. mail: Send to our unpublished house address at:

(CALL FOR DETAILS)

3) FED-EX express or UPS Send to our above house address in Santa Cruz, California. 

We will email you an INVOICE within 24 hrs. after we receive your payment.

Ask about our two day discounts and volum discounts stated on our order form..

Please call us today instead of email at:  
(415) 412-6685, 8AM till 11 PM, Pacific time.

“The whole world is my monastery and everyone in it are my brothers and sisters; The beautiful Redwood forests are my high Gothic cloister of Peace & contemplation”

Peace be with you

Very sincerely, Paul Bernardino, monastic tailor

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Please review complete information at http://www.monasterygarments.com/
Call: (415) 412-6685 from 9 AM - 11 PM, Pacific Time
Field Rep: (831) 426-0337 Email: monks@monasterygarments.com

Paul Bernardino
Monastery Garments P.O. Box 475-333 | San Francisco, California 94147-5333 U.S.A.