Handbuch der Paramentik
Handbuch der Paramentik is a 1912 German handbook of ecclesiastical vestments and liturgical textiles by Joseph Braun, held by Heidelberg University Library and written for church scholars and craftsmen. Its pictures show embroidered and woven church garments: a chasuble with figures in roundels and radiating panels, a damask-patterned fabric with foliate lobes, a mitre-shaped orphrey with scrolling vines and birds, and a long band with medallion figures and tasselled fringe. A designer could draw on their dense medieval ornament, framed medallions and symmetrical layouts.
