On the Maltese islands, we are lucky to have a lot of local handmade products and we still have some talented individuals who can keep traditions alive.
Eucharist pall
When it comes to fabric, we pride ourselves of different forms of lace-making and gold embroidery, among others. However, there is a type of embroidery, which is quite unknown (or, in my opinion, hidden) and which is not appreciated as much as it should be: white embroidery on white cloth, which is mostly found in sacristies.
Sr Batistina and Sr Martha, of the Franciscan Order, who, for many years, used to go to St John Co-Cathedral’s museum on a daily basis to repair the tapestries, used to tell me that white embroidery is the most difficult to do.