[MR] [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - Wreath vs. Chaplet

[Jim Looper]

Ah, yes. I knew I should have went with this (despite how much I hate using 
wikipedia as a source):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tortillon.jpg

L~

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Teceangl" <tierna.britt at gmail.com>
To: <AtlantianHeralds at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - Wreath vs. 
Chaplet


>
> First, Falcon Cree has the Best Laurel Wreath EVER!  Send everyone to
> that example and no one will have a wreath returned for mis-drawing.
>
> The torse is the cloth. The torse with hawk's bells is a jocelyn.
> Hmmm, not in Parker,. In the PicDic, of course...  "A joscelyn is a
> torse with four hawk's bells in cross, radiating from the outer edge;
> it is found in the canting arms of Jocelyn, 1285." (That's from the
> West Kingdom CoA site, but they have no picture and Nottingham Coill's
> is perfect anyway.) The SCA recognizes more than four bells on a
> jocelyn, usually declining to blazon the precise number.
>
> - Teceangl