The pall properly had no ornamentation except its crosses.
The stockings were either not embroidered at all or richly embroidered over the whole surface.
The rational was decorated with enamel, goldsmith's or jewelled work.
The mitra simplex was decorated with little or no adornment; the mitra aurifrigiata with embroidered work all over it; the mitra pretiosa with embroidery combined with jewels and goldsmith's work.
The gloves do not appear to have been conspicuously ornamented. They often bore a large jewel set against the back of the hand.
The tunicle was generally quite simple; the bishop's tunicle, however, in no wise differed from the dalmatic.
Of the orale a full description has already been given; we need not again refer to it.
Passing to the Processional and other vestments, it will be unnecessary to mention any but the cope; for, with the exception of a little trifling embroidered work in coloured threads round the neck of the surplice, none of the other vestments showed any ornamentation. The cope was ornamented with embroidered work down the straight edges in front, and often round the bottom edge and the neck as well; often also the whole vestment was elaborately embroidered all over. The hood, too, must not be forgotten.
For some inscrutable reason a distinction is drawn in name between the embroidered ornaments of the alb and amice and those of the remainder of the ecclesiastical dress. The former are called apparels, the latter orphreys.
The subjects with which these vestments are embroidered must next engage our attention for a short time. These fall naturally into three broad groups: