When this is done the infulæ are sewn under the edge of the mitre at the back, and a lining (previously prepared of exactly the same shape, but a trifle smaller) slip-stitched all round the lower edge and kept in place by means of a few stitches at each point.
The mitre should then be folded quite flat, and the edge of the folds outlined with gold twist or fine cord; a little tuft of silk and gold thread, or a small gold acorn or some such small ornament, is sometimes fastened on the apex of each angle.
This is for a simple linen mitre, for the more gorgeous ones, preciosa and aurifrigiata, a band of leather is sometimes placed inside between the outside and the lining, wide enough to reach from E to B and C where the angle begins (4 inches in diagram). The triangular pieces are cut out before making it up (along the dotted line in diagram), and another piece of material (not necessarily like the rest of the mitre) is cut to fit, and sewn neatly all round, before the edging of cord is put on. The shape of this top piece will vary from a square to any lozenge, according to the angle at which the point of the mitre is made. In my diagram it is a right-angle, and so the top would be 8½ inches square. It should have an interlining of something light, yet fairly stiff. Parchment used to be considered the correct thing for this interlining, but a good collar interlining or tailor’s canvas will suffice.
CHAPTER X
ON EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS, CHALICE-VEIL AND BURSE
The Ornaments Rubric as it stands at the beginning of our Prayer-books has been an open field for controversy for many years. So much light has been thrown by this means upon customs and observances once almost forgotten and fallen into neglect (which obviously at the time of the Rubric were before the eyes or fresh in the memories of all Church-people), that we can now once more picture to ourselves, without effort, what our forefathers strove successfully to retain as permissible for the maximum (if not absolutely commanded as the minimum) of distinctive vesture and ritual to be used in the services of the Church of England.
For the Celebrant—the Amice, the Albe, the Girdle, the Stole, the Maniple or Fanon, and the Chasuble.
For the Epistoler and Gospeller—the same vestments, except that instead of the Chasuble a Dalmatic or Tunicle is worn.
For the Altar itself—a Frontal, Fair linen cloth, two Corporals (or Corporal and Chalice-veil, or Corporal and Pall), Purificators, and Corporal-case or Burse.