Timotheos Prologizes: Here's the orphrey material skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Here's the orphrey material] Reference
Length 148.5 cm (orphrey on back) Width 41.3 cm (width of ophrey on back at widest point). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Judging from these, and the embroidered orphrey which the authorities bought from the Hockon Collection for £119 1s. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
On the orphrey are emblazoned the arms of Warwick, Castile and Leon, Ferrars, Geneville Everard, the badge of the Knights. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
The chasuble upon which this orphrey is placed is made of a lovely brocaded silk decorated with falcons, peahens, and roses. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Woven silk velvet ground, with orphrey of linen embroidered with silver, silver-gilt and silks metal threads couched; silks in split stitch; glass. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
These shields are to go on the red velvet orphrey of the red cope that I have just made the last piece of my red solemn set that I made for my ordination to the diaconate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
In medieval chasubles these orphrey crosses often assume a Y form, and the crosses themselves seem really to have originated less from any symbolical purpose than from sartorial reasons connected with the cut and adjustment. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Part of an orphrey. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
Width of embroidered orphrey, about eight inches. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Here's the orphrey material. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to believe] Reference
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