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04/30/2026

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

In 1806, the Sisters of Notre Dame established a house at Saint-Nicolas (Flandre) and wore, for the first time, the religious habit which was blessed by the Bishop of Ghent, Mgr Fallot de Beaumont. After the Council of 1968, the sisters kept the veil but replaced the heavy robe with one much lighter...

04/30/2026

Our very favorite traditional religious habit

Sister Patricia Simpson points out that in the beginning the Sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame were dressed like all the other women of the 17th century. They wore a black dress, a kerchief over their shoulders and a scarf covering their head and knotted under the chin. The only distinctive...

04/30/2026

https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-82-fall-2013/the-secret-life-of-nuns

04/30/2026

https://blogs.scu.edu/arthursattic/2025/02/06/her-habits-attire-for-women-religious/

Her Habits: Attire for Women Religious A&SC Women Religious Archives Winter Exhibit This winter, we are featuring an exhibit drawn from our new Women Religious Archives on the uniforms of various Catholic women religious orders, referred to as their habits. Curated by archivist Bess Pittman, the exh...

04/30/2026

https://historyseamstress.wordpress.com/category/medieval-nun-costume/page/2/

04/30/2026

at the end of the XNUMXth century "The Carmelites must keep their habits to make them last as long as they can", we read in the Exaction Paper. The religious habit is an element of a clothing system, with its constraints, its prohibitions, its tolerances, its exclusions. It is a "fact of communicati...

04/30/2026

Some traditional religious habits had these hidden pockets sewn into their clothing.

18th Century F***y Packs, Also a Bit About Nuns’ Pockets January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 Kate ScottLeave a comment A while back, I was trying to describe the function of tie-on pockets to non-costumers and said, “It’s like an old-timey f***y pack that you wear under your clothes.” I stand b...

04/30/2026

A Blog Dedicated to the traditional habits of religious orders

04/30/2026

This is a free sewing pattern and tutorial for a nun costume, drafted with a slightly high-waist design. Seam allowances (S/A) are included so it can be used as is.

How to make Sister and free pattern paper.

04/30/2026

Working with the Nun-Doll Museum in Indian River, MI, the aim of this project is to study the miniature replicas of 525 different Nun's habits in order to create an online archive of patterns that will be a free resource for Nuns into the future, enabling them to sew their own habits -- if they so choose. Like Wikipedia, the site will be open source and invite others around the world to contribute sewing patterns and share their knowledge.