The art of garnishing churches at Christmas and other festivals
The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Festivals is a Victorian pattern book published in London by Cox & Sons in 1871, compiled by Edward Young Cox for church decorators and parishioners preparing seasonal displays. Its numbered plates show monograms, crosses, banners, scrolled texts and heraldic devices, drawn in black line with dense interlace and ornamental borders. A designer could take from them a ready vocabulary of ecclesiastical lettering panels, cross motifs and framed emblem layouts for period or devotional graphics.
