[Steppes] Insignia

[Sir Morgan Buchanan]

I think that the non-armigerous awards are not normally maintained by the 
kingdom, so the defficiency is our own (which you may be saying, I'm just 
clarifying).  Several of us (Alasdair, Borek, myself, Mahdi) were talking 
about the Acorn and Gryce's Track database, and we want to get that back up 
and running and get it to a current point so we can easily move it forward. 
It's not like a LOT of those are given out, so it should be reasonably 
simple to keep up to date once it's done.  I know it's been said over and 
over the last few years.  We need to actually do it.

I think it would be great if the barony would put together a page with 
insignia descriptions for all three insignia.  It's my impression that the 
"hard bit" of each, the leaf, the acorn, and the track, are very open to 
artistic license. I've seen many differnet leaves... from realistic to higly 
stylaized.  I've seen a few different types of acorns.  I've seen a couple 
kinds of track (I haven't seen more than a couple ever).  But it seems that 
a general guideline and descriptions of the ribbons would suffice, but the 
inclusion of pictures of existing ones would be great.

My thoughts on the matter, based solely on my observations.

Morgan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alkudsi at aol.com>
To: <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Insignia


> When I went to this site, the only insignia for Steppes shown was the 
> Oak.? While we probably do need more of the Oak insignia, from what the 
> Baroness has said, we need the insignia for the other, non-armigenous 
> awards such as Grice and Acorn, as well.? I also checked the Steppes 
> website, and could not find "official" descriptions of the insignia.? This 
> is a herald question, I believe, and I would think that this points out a 
> deficency on the website, as well.? We do not list the other awards, only 
> the Oaks, the Artisans, Champions, Bards, and Warlords (and maybe a couple 
> of others).
>
> HL Saqra
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loni Orbison <redpenwielder at yahoo.com>
> To: steppes at ansteorra.org
> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 4:35 pm
> Subject: [Steppes] Insignia
>
>
>
> http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/docs/AwardTexts2005.pdf
>
>  This link should be helpful for people interested in making insignia.  It
> contains the text for the scrolls for most kingdom and many baronial 
> awards.
> Above the text of each award you will find a description of the badge and 
> the
> insignia for the award along with a graphic.
>
>  Please note that the badge and insignia are two different things:  the 
> badge
> is what is drawn on the award scroll and the insignia is what a person 
> wears.
> They are not always the same, so check that out before you put in hours of 
> hard
> work.  At a recent class I attended on making insignia, we were shown many
> pieces of beautiful work--creatively done, but unusable due to 
> inaccuracies.  It
> was quite heartbreaking.
>
>  Hope this helps.
>  Osanna
>
>
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