Nun's Habits - Latin Rite - Page · 1 · · 2 · · 3 ·
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Franciscan Nun:
7 piece
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Franciscan Nun:
7 piece
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Poor Clare:
5 piece
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Franciscan:
6 piece
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Franciscan:
6 piece
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Franciscan:
6 piece
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Benedictine: Tunic,
Scapular,coif,veil
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Carmelite:
5 piece
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Anglican Carmelite
4 piece
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Carmelite: 5 piece
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Carmelite: 5 piece
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Nuns Habit pieces priced separately:

Select Benedictine, Franciscan, Dominican, Carmelite styles etc. Follow ordering instructions. 
Cotton/Poly
100% Cotton
100% Poly
Poly
Wool
Blend 
100%
Wool 
COIF , pull-over style, white, form fitting with velcro at back $10 $15 $20
COIF , white, loose fitting with elastic inner head band $20 $25 $30
HEAD BAND , white vinyl or cloth, 3 1/2" wide with back velcro $5 $7 $10
STIFF CROWN BAND , (crown caplet) with velcro, polystyrene $20    
WIMPLE GUIMPE , cloth, chest bib with velcro, no collar $20 $22 $24
with collar $22 $24 $26
VEIL , 3'x 4', traditional, standard size nun's veil $20    
VEIL , 3'x 4', with buckrum front edge. $25    
UNDER VEIL , 42" x 10" or wider $15 $17 $20
UNDER VEIL , etc.,
42" x 10", with 39" sleeve with plastic strip
$25 $27 $30
NECK COLLAR , white vinyl or cloth with velcro at back neck $3 $5 $7
CAPUCHE / GUIMPE , shoulder capelet with velcro at back neck $20 $22 $25
with 1" collar $22 $24 $26
Work or Formal sleeves w/ upper elastic strips, one pair. $8 $10 $12

PRICES ABOVE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

INSTRUCTION FOR DRESSING IN NUN'S LATIN RITE HABIT

LATIN RITE VARIATIONS MAY APPLY

1)  Do not put the hard vinyl wimple on till the very last.

2)  COIF: Put white soft polyester or cotton coif on over head, or pull back over face and head from under chin and tuck in all hair.

Velcro at back of head. Keep front flaps tucked down flat under tunic (or safety pin front flaps down onto T-shirt).

3)  TUNIC: Find front of tunic, pull over head, arms up, avoid arms in hip slits and pockets.

4)  BELT: (not included), black or brown leather belt with matching shoes or sandals.

5)  SCAPULAR: Pull scapular over head. Benedictines wear scapular over belt. 

6)  HEAD BAND: Hard white vinyl coif head crown optional:

(Some orders of nuns do not wear the optional white crown.)

Adjustable size with velcro keeping it comfortable and snug.

Keep front of head band over middle forehead, over front top ridge of soft coif.

7)  VEIL: with plastic reinforcement strip: Lay veil flat on table or bed, inside out.  Find hidden 39" sleeve at front edge of Veil.  Find 1 1/4" slit near end of hidden sleeve.
Slowly / carefully slide plastic strip into 1 1/4" slit all the way.  Push backward plastic strip into 1" pocket catch.  The 1" pocket catch is to help prevent the plastic strip from falling out while being worn.
Place veil with hidden strip over head, coif, crown band, over front edge of crown band front.  Place straight pin onto veil, through soft coif near front of head, 2" from behind crown band (graphic) and one more pint at top of head.  One straight pin 1" behind each ear (pin from under coif) top area to hold veil onto soft coif beneath.  The pins keep the veil onto coif and from flapping onto front of chest.
Do not iron, press, wash, or  dry clean with plastic in veil.

8)  VEIL: without plastic strip in veil sleeve: Fold veil in half, widthwise, inside out.  Place one small safety pin in veil in veil 12" from each end - 5" from back bottom of veil - one smell safety pin - not two.  Turn veil right side out.  Find center front of veil, center veil over head, coif, crown band.  Allow 1" overlap of veil over front of crown band.  Pin small safety pin in front of each ear from under coif to hold the front of veil down.   Place one more straight pin at top of head, through veil and coif.

9)  WIMPLE / GUIMPE: Smaller wimples / guimpes are easier to put on and wear.  If it's a large or long wimple hard vinyl like cardboard, do not put it on front wise.  Put it on over back shoulders first, contour to shoulders, velcro at front to neck / chest.  Slowly slide velcroed hard wimple around to center front of chest.  An optional cross or crucifix can be worn over or under the hard or soft wimple.  If a cloth / fabric/ starched wimple is used instead of the hard vinyl type, the same dressing steps are used as with a hard vinyl wimple / guimpe to avoid creasing wimple / guimpe    while putting on rest of habit.  Use black headed straight pins with black veil.

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The following is an incomplete list of Pre-Vatican Council II, traditional Nun's Habits of the Latin Rite that I sew unpleated and sell:
 
Benedictine Nuns
Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance
Camoldolese Nuns
Carthusian Nuns
Cistercian Nuns of the Common Observance
Daughters of Mercy of the Immaculate Conception
Daughters of Wisdom
Discalced Carmelite Nuns
Dominican Sisters of Adrian,MI.
Dominican Sisters of Amityville, N.Y.
Dominican Sisters of Edmonds
Dominican Sisters of Nashville
Dominican Sisters of San Raphael, Ca.
Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, WI.
Felician Sisters, O.S.F.
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
Franciscan Sisters & Brothers (Anglican Church)
Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Kunegunda
Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family
Les Religieuses Dominicaines
Maryknoll Sisters
Oblate Sisters of Providence
Poor Clares (Franciscan Nuns)
School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of St Francis, Milwaukee, Wi.
Sister Servants, Holy Ghost/Perpetual Adoration
Sisters & Nuns of Order of St. Benedict
Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood
Sisters of Charity of The Incarnate Word
Sisters of Immaculate Conception of Mother of God
Sisters of Incarnate Word & Blessed Sacrament
Sisters of Mercy, founded in Ireland
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, Poland
Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Sisters of Providence, St.Mary of The Woods,In.
Sisters of St Casimir, Chicago
Sisters of St. Francis, Glen Riddle, Pa.
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sisters of St. Joseph, Third Order of St. Francis
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity/Trinitarian Nuns
Sisters of the Sacred Passion/ Passionist Nuns
Sisters, Servants of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Trappestine Nuns, O.C.S.O.
Ursuline Nuns, Paris
Visitation nuns

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