This are the best possibilities for our guild badge:
- on a dragon sable (-> black) a needle or (=gold -> yellow)
- on a dragon sable (-> black) a needle argent (=silver -> white)
- on a hurst of three pine trees eradicated gules (-> red), a needle or (=gold -> yellow)
- on a hurst of three pine trees eradicated gules (-> red), a needle argent (=silver -> white)
When the poll is over (14.12.2007) Mistress Jaelle offered to check if the chosen badge is clear of conflict and than we will try to register it.
Yis
Racaire
more information provided by Mistress Jaelle:
No color would be behind the dragon (or the trees). This is what we call a fieldless badge. A fieldless badge can be on any background where there is contrast - so in this case, of either black or red you could put it on a white or yellow background - eg sew it on your white dress and then on your yellow cloak, This is because the badge is a - thing - it can go on either.
this may help- an explanation about fieldless badges from the 0fficial SCA heraldic website:
"In period mundane practice, fieldless badges are almost always a single charge, possibly charged with a cadency mark, such as a crescent or a mullet. Most of the rest were charges conjoined, such as a crescent with an estoile resting in the "cup", or the bear and ragged staff of Neville.
In the SCA, the fieldless badges must form a connected design. One way to think about it is that you should be able to cast the design in a mold without it falling apart."
2 comments:
Just a stylistic comment -- the needle should either lie wholly on the underlying charge, or significant portions of it should not overly the underlying charge; the little bit of the tip escaping down at the bottom is what's called "barely overall", and it would be a reason for return for redrawing so that it was clearly one or t'other.
-Aryanhwy
Thank you very much for your hint :)
We will think of this fact as soon as we make the definite design for the badge :)
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