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

[Becky McEllistrem]

Wikipedia is a great place to start.  It's just that some things need validation just like many sources.

Rebecca
Oak Editor

--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Jim Looper <jimlooper at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Looper <jimlooper at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - Wreath vs. Chaplet
> To: AtlantianHeralds at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:34 AM
> 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 
> 
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