Minutes of Guildford Cathedral Broderers Guild 1936 - 1965
Bound volume containing signed and dated copies of the minutes of the Broderers Guild 17 March 1936 – 13 April 1965…
No meetings were held 1939 – 1951
Standing orders of the Guildford Cathedral Broderers Guild included in 1938. The activities of the Guild were listed as : Canvas Work; Carpet Work; Ecclesiastical Embroidery; Illuminated and Script Work; Tapestry and Textile Work; White Work; Various.
Extent Volume: 134 of 197 pages
Reference number Guildcath/1/G/G5/013
Storage location Shelf 2 CB/2 Records in this File
This meeting was to consider the formation of the Cathedral Broderers Guild. There were 50 to 60 people present. Mrs Maufe gave a report on the work done by the Broderers at Winchester and outlined proposals for Guildford. It was unanimously decided a guild should be formed and a small committee was formed. All forms ...
It was decided to send a letter to the Surrey papers explaining the objects of the G.C.B.G. [Guildford Cathedral Broderers Guild]. Mrs Maufe showed a number of designs for kneelers in which a uniformity of a diagonal division with blue and white was used throughout as a background to modern and other subjects.
It was reported that accommodation had not yet been secured. It was proposed that the President and the Secretary should compose an advertisement to put in a central Guildford paper. The Secretary reported 42 replies to the letter circulated in July. Mrs Maufe suggested that workers should be graded into 5 grades, according to ability. She showed several ...
It was decided that the teachers should be asked to to elect a committee of 3 to judge finished kneelers with power to reject unsuitable ones. Also that members should not be allowed to use the materials of the Guild until their work had been passed by the committee. The teachers undertook to prepare a ...
The Secretary was directed to ask Mr Maufe for directions and designs for altar frontals, linen and and alms bags.
Mr Maufe had replied to the question of crochet trimming for surplice,s that he preferred plain hems and suggested tablet weaving for enrichment of other things. 150 kneelers had been issued and it was proposed to issue 50 more. Mrs Maufe showed the designs for Alms bags. The committee welcomed the designs for the stitchery. She also showed ...
The Provost recommended that standing orders for the Broderers Guild should be drawn up with a view to defining its powers and responsibilities. The Provost agreed to do this. It was agreed that owing to the uncertainty as to the nature and extent of the carpet weaving that would be required from the Guild, carpet weaving ...
It was reported that since the last meeting in 1938, four members of the committee had died, two had resigned and two had left the neighbourhood. The position of work completed was not known but it was believed that about 230 kneelers, 3 fair linen cloths, a cope, mitre and banner were finished.. An altar frontal ...
Mrs Bray and Miss Drew reported on the work done to date. The Provost suggested that the Guild should aim at completing the work by 1955. It was suggested that tailors in the diocese might be asked to undertake the cassock making. Mrs Maufe would provide patterns for practically all requirements. The holding of an exhibition of ...
Miss Iredale reported that Guildford House would be available for an exhibition of various Cathedral work from April 12th until April 25th. Mrs Bray reported a present from Mrs Booth of the chest at Farnham Castle in which materials had been stored since 1940. Miss Iredale reported a silver wedding gift of £5 to the Broderers Guild.
Miss Iredale proposed that the head of Guildford Art School should be asked to cooperate and it was also suggested that Farnham Art School should also be asked. It was reported that an expert at carpet work was living in Shere. It was suggested that a panel of expert workers should be set up to make ...
Mrs Maufe and Miss Iredale would compose a suitable insertion for parish magazines to be sent to clergy and an article for the local papers to advertise the exhibition in April. Mrs Maufe suggested that a start be made on kneelers, alms bags and long kneelers for which there were some materials in hand.
It was reported that 86 workers were engaged on kneelers and nearly all had paid for their own materials. Miss Purves reported she had traveled 648 miles and written 148 letters asking for help with the kneelers and also with cutting and sorting wools etc. She was given £10 for travel expenses and postage etc. Mrs ...
About a hundred kneelers were in hand. The Provost thanked Miss Purves for all that she was doing. Miss Isaac who worked the white frontal for the High Altar had died. Exhibitions of work at Guildford and Dorking and elsewhere were suggested. Patterns of surplices were shown by Lady Maufe and were to be submitted to The Chapter. It ...
Lady Maufe was appointed as Vice President and for Vice Chairman and in the absent of the Provost, took the chair. It was reported that meetings were being held on Thursday mornings at Diocesan House and an average number of eight workers attended each class. Many people have started a second kneeler and enthusiasm generally was ...
Miss Purves had been in touch with the Men’s Institute of Guild of Learners and the Embroiderers Guild in the endeavour to find a supervisor for white work. Lady Maufe showed her design for the Boy Scouts kneeler. Before the war there had been 66 designs and Miss Taylor agreed to visit Lady Maufe’s studio to ...
Miss Purves had already paid out over £30 for linen for white work and felt at this rate the fund would soon give out. A minimum of thirty surplices were needed and to allow time for laundry there should be sixty. The kneelers had been more or less self supporting but she did not feel ...
There was a list of the work being done and a list of the finished work. Reports were given on linen, neck squares, finance and embroidery details on the Albs, Neck Squares and Credence Cloths. The Frontal for the Queen’s Chapel had been designed before the war by the Architect and was being embroidered as a gift ...
Miss Iredale addressed the Mothers’ Union Council, on the work of the Broderers’ Guild. The Mothers’ Union agreed to give a Lenten Free-will Offering for financing gifts of Irish linen for surplices. Mrs Wilson reported that five new White-Workers had applied to her from different branches of the Mothers’ Union. General Whitfield asked for a ...
Mrs Wilson reported that Lady Maufe had given a whole role of linen (£90) to make a complete set of surplices. Mrs Wilson gave a list of the completed work. A report was given on finances. A report was given on the Exhibition held in Guildford House. The matter of a constitution was discussed and they decided to ...
It was agreed that the minutes should be circulated to Committee Members before the Committee meeting. There was no more discussion on forming a more formal Broderers Guild for Guildford, but Miss Iredale suggested that the matter should be kept under review and brought up again at a later date. Miss Purves intended to start new classes ...
Miss Purves reported she had two classes weekly, one at Woking and one at her own home. She had attended eleven times at Diocesan House and had given instruction to ten workers in their homes and to three invalids. Miss Iredale reported that the Frontal for the Children’s Chapel was not quite finished.
Lady Maufe reported that the architect had made all arrangements for the safe storage and display of the treasures, including the embroideries. Lady Maufe said that two thousand kneelers were required and at the last count four hundred were finished, although some had come in since. White Work was making slow but satisfactory progress.
A complete count of all finished Kneelers was 352. Between eighty and ninety were required for the Queen’s Regiment Chapel of which twenty were finished. Mrs Wilson hoped to deliver the towels, palls and three more surplices to the Cathedral very shortly. Miss Taylor would like a notice in the Cathedral to say “if you would like ...
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