Vestiar
Vestiar or Vestiarius (derived from Latin vestis - "clothes", sometimes also Vesterar or Vesterarius ) is the name given to the administrator of the clothes and sewing room in monasteries and occasionally at royal courts. In principle, the habit of the order is the property of the monastery . According to the Rule of Saint Benedict, the allocation of clothing is the responsibility of the abbot . The office of producing and maintaining the clothing and linen of the entire community in the vestiarium - with the exception of the altar linen , for which the sacristan is responsible - falls to the vestiar.
For some time now, for reasons of cost, lingerie, stockings and the like have not been produced in the vestibule, but are bought in bulk. Also be tunics and scapulars woven not by hand.
Footnotes
- ↑ RI I, 3.1 n.71, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/0850-08-20_1_0_1_3_1_4282_71 (accessed December 9, 2012)