The astonishing art of the ancient embroiderers made the silk a series of vivid pictures; the collar and the narrow stripes on the front of a cape were large enough to reproduce all the scenes of the biblical creation and the passion of Jesus.

Brocade and silk unrolled the magnificence of their textures.

One cape was a garden of flame-coloured carnations, another was a bed of roses and other fantastic flowers with twisted stamens and metallic petals.

The sacristans produced from the deep shelves, as though they were books, the splendid and famous frontals of the high altar.

There were special ones for each festival; that for St.John's Day was brightly coloured with verbenas, purple bunches of grapes, and golden lambs that fat little angels were caressing with their chubby hands.