They were falling apart and I decided to try and restore them.” After that proved to be a success, he progressed to vestments. He made them for his parish and that too proved to be a success and then he started getting orders from other parishes and outside the Anglican circle.
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“I learnt how to sew by mending old vestments.
I also made some altar paraments.” The altar frontal is the front cloth with a motif or emblem that faces the congregation, while paraments are the cloth placed on the altar, pulpit and parts of the church and they have sewn or embroidered decoration or motifs on them and may not be as elaborate as the ones on the altar frontal.Īnd it was all self-taught. “It was all because the altar at my parish (The Parish of Good Shepherd in Subang Jaya) was without a covering. It all started for the Kuala Lumpur-born Heng when he responded to a need. Ecclesiastical tailors specialise in sewing religious clerical clothing. By this time, he was an ecclesiastical tailor who is known for his hand embroidery and medieval and Gothic designs, and was producing vestments for different denominations and different parts of the world. “I was approached by a young man to make vestments for a Roman Catholic priest,” 28-year-old Heng told Journey With Us-Asia. Vestment is the ceremonial and official clothing worn by priests. Then in 2017, he made his first vestment for a Catholic priest and he has not stopped. JAN 7, 2021: The first time Johnson Heng sewed a vestment was when he was 16 and it was for his Anglican parish priest.
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