bookmark_borderMore Baronial Belt favors

We have some big SCA events coming up in the Barony, and our Baronage loves recognizing people for their hard work by inducting them into our Baronial orders. Tradition has it that we give all inductees something they can use to display their membership in the order, and the one thing I can make most reliably is a “belt favor” machine-embroidered with the symbol of that order. Here is the most recent harvest from the fertile fields of my surplus fabric stash:

These are all made from surplus fabric green linen from my recent Basic Hakama project. The red comets are for martial activity, gold for service, blue/silver for arts & research, and green for “friend of the Barony”. The comet on the Order of Copernicus favor glows in the dark!

bookmark_borderGold Comet

I never posted about my Gold Comet! The Gold Comet, or Comet D’Or, is the service order for the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, our local SCA group. apparently, I was given this award while we were out of the country and unable to attend the Agincourt event, but the scroll was bestowed in November at the Harvest Revel meeting.

Scroll for Gold Comet
Calligraphy and Illumination by Gesa Wellenstein

The scroll reads:

The early morning sun shines its warm rays over field and forest. There among the verdant wood glows the bright gold of a comet for our worthy Ishiyama-Shonagon Gen’tarou Yori’ie. The delicate strands of webs also gleam in the light, bedecked with morning dew. So, too, do his efforst to grow the woodworking guild please us well. For this and his numerous past services to the Barony marche of the Debatable Lands, we brandubh et Hildarun, Baron and Baroness, bestow upon him the Comet D’Or, at Agincourt on the 19th day of October, A.S. LIV.