Mini Birettas as Souvenir

Have a look at these wonderful little treasures.

The Roman tailors make them as souvenirs.

Mini biretta cardinal

Mini biretta canon

Mini biretta Praemonstratensian

Mini biretta bishop

Even Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger had two mini cardinal birettas on his piano.
One biretta adorns the head of a little teddy bear.
© of the picture: Gianni Giansanti
Buy this wonderful book:
Benedetto XVI - L'alba di un nuovo papato
White Star S.p.A, Vercelli, 2005, ISBN 978-88-540-0500-6

Souvenir birettas made by Ditta Annibale Gammarelli, Rome

For the Spanish academics:

Mini birrete (ca. 12,5 x 11 cm), made by Rosario Berrocal, Málga, Spain

Doctor en Odontología (Dentistry)

Mini bonete

Mini Sombereo de teja (capello Romano, saturno)

Mini mitre

The Video

Dear Mr. Krzych:

Thank you very much for the video.

See as well:

Caeremoniale Romanvm

How to make a Collapsible Biretta?

If you want to make a biretta by yourself, follow the instruction:

How to make a Collapsible Biretta

The most important thing is the carton you use inside.

I tried a Tetra Pak used for milk:

Quite good material to start because it is coated on both sides.

But too thin.

If you use the wrong cardboard, if will break if the biretta is folded often or

you will get bluges

You can try to cover your cardboard with foil to make it more stable and to avoid

disruptions and bluges.

I got quiet satisfied results with this method.

The best material you can use is pressboard/presspahn which
is used for isolation in the electrical industry.
The pressboard should be 0.6 mm/0.02 in thick.

For example:

PUCARO Elboard
or
KREMPEL Presspahn

Have a look at the shape of the horns (blades, wings):
Left a biretta I bought from Poland
Right a biretta from Italy

The silk pompons you need, you can order from Roman tailors. Prices are around 8-10 Euros per piece. These silk pompons (tuft, tassels) are the only ones which do not collapse and where the threads stand upright for a long time.

For an address list, click here.

If you use threads which are too heavy, it looks like that:

Or you use wool threads for the pompon and make the

threads a little bit shorter:

If you want to have an application cord over the edges

you can use twisted cord (not so nice)

 and laced cords,

which looks better and more professional: 

In Germany, Rabanus & Liebmann GmbH & Co. KG, Wuppertal have a

very hughe selection of these cords:

Have a look here.

And they have them in all colors:

Pattern Roman Catholic Biretta

Pattern Spanish Bonete

Papal St. Ninian's Tartan

To get detailed information on the St. Ninian's tartan, exclusivly made for Pope Benedict XVI., please visit Tartan Pope Benedict VXI.

Camauro made of papal tartan with artificial white fur as brim

 Biretta made of papal tartan with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a white pompon

 Biretta made of papal tartan with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a white stem

 Zucchetto made of papal tartan with a white stem

Spanish bonete made of the Papal St. Ninian's tartan

Some selected items from Ingles Buchan, by means of they promote the Pope's visit in Scotland in September 2010

Bow Tie

Scarf

Tie

Flat Cap

Tammie

The Mitre of the Papal Coat of Arms

On the coat of arms of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. the tiara was replaced by a mitre with 3 stripes.

About the mitre in the coat of arms (Source: Coat of Arms of His Holiness Benedict VI.):

"The Supreme Pontiff's arms have featured a "tiara" since ancient times. At the beginning this was a sort of closed "tocque". In 1130 a crown was added, symbol of the Church's sovereignty over the States.
Boniface VIII, in 1301, added a second crown, at the time of the confrontation with Philip the Fair, King of France, to show that his spiritual authority was superior to any civic authority.

It was Benedict XII in 1342 who added a third crown to symbolize the Pope's moral authority over all secular monarchs, and reaffirmed the possession of Avignon.

With time, although it lost its temporal meaning, the silver tiara with three gold crowns came to represent the three powers of the Supreme Pontiff: Sacred Orders, Jurisdiction and Magisterium.

In past centuries, Popes wore the tiara at solemn official celebrations and especially on the day of the "coronation" at the beginning of their Pontificate. Paul VI used for this purpose a precious tiara which the Archdiocese of Milan had presented to him, just as it had given one to Pius XI; but afterwards, Paul VI donated it to a charity and introduced the current use of a simple "mitre", although these mitres were sometimes embellished with ornaments or gems. But he left the "tiara" and the crossed keys as the emblem of the Apostolic See.

Today, the ceremony that begins a Pontificate is no longer called a "coronation". The Pope's full jurisdiction begins the moment he accepts his election by the Cardinals in the Conclave and not with coronation as for secular monarchs. This ceremony, therefore, is simply called the solemn inauguration of his Petrine Ministry, as it was for Benedict XVI on 24 April.

The Holy Father Benedict XVI decided not to include the tiara in his official personal coat of arms. He replaced it with a simple mitre which is not, therefore, surmounted by a small globe and cross as was the tiara.

The Papal mitre shown in his arms, to recall the symbolism of the tiara, is silver and bears three bands of gold (the three powers: Orders, Jurisdiction and Magisterium), joined at the centre to show their unity in the same person."

After my knowledge, at this time there exists only one real mitre made exactly according to the mitre of the coat of arms of

H.H. Pope Benedict XVI.:

You can read some critical comments from the point of correct heraldry about the mitre used in the new coat of arms of the Holy Father from Mr Maurizio Bettoja, member of the Società Italiana di Studi Araldici (S.I.S.A.) (unfortunately only in Italian language):

Lo stemma di Benedetto XVI di Maurizio Bettoja

Uno stemma assurdo di Maurizio Bettoja

In the above articles the mitre is described as "mitria zebrata" (for the mitre is looking similar to the tripes on the skin of a zebra).

In his letter to the editor of the German newspaper Die Tagespost dated 24th of May 2005, page 16, Mr Stephan Uano discribes this mitre as "Mitriara" (new creation of the words "mitre" and "tiara").