[Artemisia] Re: Heraldic Qustions

[Mary Hodges]

Get thee behind me Satan! !)

You know what I'm up to, and why I have to wait for the scar on my leg 
from the ankle chain to heal before I can have any fun.

Seriously, I will be over as soon as I get out from under-thanks. 
Period practice sounds very spiffy, although the turning-the-tabard 
sideways sounds like it would look kind of silly.

Just to add to the merriment-I've seen the baron of Loch Salann wear a 
tabard with the barony arms; theoretically, how would a stranger know if 
they were talking to the baron/ess or the baron/ess's herald, especially 
if the herald had some kind of circlet or pointy hat on?  Or should the 
herald forgo any of their own regalia while working?

So the outlands tabard which is "Quarterly, the arms of the Outlands 1 
and 3 and the arms of the SCA CoA 2 and 4, while spiffy, is not period?

all the best,
Jehane

Aaugh!  Here comes the slave driver!  He has a long whip!

drchelm wrote:
> 
> there is no heraldic sumptuary to prevents a herald from wearing a 
> green-with-crossed-trumpets cloak while on duty as a herald in 
> Artemisia, to the best of my knowledge.
> 
> Period practice is good too, Jehane (and company).  Period practice is a 
> tabard with the arms of the noble or royalty you're working for with 
> that noble's or royal's arms on it, on all four tabs.  In some kingdoms, 
> they make non-titled persuivants rotate that tabard 90 degrees so the 
> short tabs are to the front - an actual period practice in the late 
> Gothic - but personally I find the practice too exclusionary for my 
> tastes, and I doubt that any Artemisian would ever stoop to be that 
> un-mellow.
> 
> So if you were heralding personally for the baron and/or baroness of M 
> I's, you would look tres spiff and the height of heraldic fashion in a 
> tabard with the baronial peacock arms on all four tabs.  (I have a ton 
> of documentation on heraldic display in the house, Jehane, if you want 
> to eyeball some period examples of herald-wear).
> 
> ttfn
> Therasia
> 
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