So how did the veils begin? I guess technically it didn't start with veils, but an experiment! I have a younger brother in seminary and I was wondering if it was possible to embroider the lace I would see on antique surplices (surplicii?). After realizing it would take me several years to do that lace, I took on a smaller project of embroidering a veil for my sister in law for Christmas, and I have been making veils ever since!