Paramentics

The paraments is considered treatment of vestments . In science and teaching, it is an academic discipline that is located in the field of practical theology and deals with the design of liturgical clothes and textiles for worship.

In practice, the parament also deals with the proper design of churches, in particular with altars (e.g. antependium ) and pulpit . Findings and considerations from aesthetics , liturgy and Christian art flow into the Paramentik.

Paramentik can also be used to describe a workshop that specializes in the development, design and manufacture of parament.

Objects of Paramentics

Paramentics is mainly concerned with

• Material science (in the 21st century natural materials such as silk , wool and linen are preferred again )
• of color psychology and its meaning and its influence on paramentics
• the church year and the liturgical calendar in their influence on textile design
• the origin and development of liturgical clothing and its environment, taking into account clothing fashion and fashion history
• History of Paramentics (historical Paramentics)

literature

• Article: Paramente , by KB Ritter, in: The religion in history and present, Tübingen 1961, vol. 5, column 103-106
• Wilhelm Löhe , On the jewelry of the holy places , 1858
• Paraments through the ages: textile church art from Neuendettelsau 1858 - 2004 ; Accompanying publication to the special exhibition of the same name in the Löhe-Zeit-Museum Neuendettelsau from September 12 to November 28, 2004 / ed. from the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Neuendettelsau und Umgebung eV Karl-Günter Beringer; Klaus Raschzok ; Hans Roessler