[Sca-cooks] colours of belts etc

[Sue Clemenger]

In Artemisia, our Royal Peers, and our Royalty, are easily distinguished
because they're the only ones with crowns/coronets (although Court
Baronage gets them too).  I've never run into this "purple is a reserved
color," and anybody who wants to can wear purple around here....
--Maire, plain old laurel, saving up enough fundage to make a logwood
gown.....

Carol Eskesen Smith wrote:
>

> Actually, I've simply added purple to the list in honor of the "fourth peerage".  People will remember knights (red), laurels (green), and pelicans (yellow), but never remember the royal peers (purple; it's a reserved dye, and we still wiped out the Murex mollusk).  And in the East, at least, we are peers...  Was wondering who'd ask.
> Picture a double-woven belt (green and yellow) with stripes of the other colors showing on both sides...  Haven't handed any out, though.
> Regards,
> Brekke Franksdottir, OR, OP, OL  (And "Hey, YOU!" when working in a kitchen)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Siegfried Heydrich
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:21 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] colours of belts etc
>
>     Actually, it's black & purple, worn by submissives . . .
>
>     Sieggy
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >>You skipped one color.  Should be:
> >>
> >>Red, honor & chivalry
> >>Green, craftsmanship
> >>Yellow, service,
> >>Purple, courtesy.
> >>Regards,
> >>Brekke.
> >>
> >>There is no service without art, no art without service, and there is
> >>nothing without honor and courtesy.
> >>
> >Never heard of purple for courtesy.  Where do they do that?  Is it for the
> >companions of the Queens order of Courtesy or what?
> >Olwen, wondering if she needs to get Morningstar a purple belt.
>