[Steppes] Insignia

[AlKudsi at aol.com]

Your Excellency,
 
As someone who has woven more yards of Oak ribbon than I care to remember, I 
can give you what I've always done...10 black, 9 green, and 10 black (when 
done with gauge 3 or 5 perle cotton).  
 
In my early years in the Barony, the ribbon was simply a piece of black 
grosgrain ribbon, with a narrow piece of green ribbon zigzagged down the center.  I 
still have a small strip of the one my original one came on.  His Excellency, 
Baron Exiter the Wanderer did an large number of brass Oak leaves that were 
given out long after he and Baroness Anne stepped down.  Lord Mikael started 
making them when we started running out, and then HE Master Fritz.  There have 
been a number of others who have contributed, including HL Caireen who carved 
some lovely Oak leaves from amber.  
 
Acorns are normally strung on black cord (lucet works very well), although, 
since I never got one, I can only go by what I've seen. 
 
HL Saqra



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