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gurdymonkey ([personal profile] gurdymonkey) wrote2008-02-21 08:33 pm

Labor of love?

I just completed a pow-wow with the young man who was taken as a squire on Saturday night. He emailed me to see if I was serious about my offer to make him an obi. I assured him that I was and sent him here to see the "Shoot Me" kosode, since I know I still have some red silk left from it. Evidently he didn't realize that the Tosenin kosode was hand painted because he expressed surprise on seeing the web page I sent him to. I got him to send me a picture of his device and told him I'd let ideas percolate for a bit and then maybe send him some sketches to see if he likes them. It's a squire's obi, it should be subtle, but it should also say, "This is me."  He keeps insisting, "You're making it, it's up to you."  I keep insisting,  "You're going to have to wear it, I want it to be something you'll like."

It's not every day I get to make something for someone else.....

[identity profile] bovil.livejournal.com 2008-02-22 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Squire belt heraldry protocol is, IIRC, rather informal. It's not defined in corpora. I'm not sure it's even covered in kingdom law (not that I've ever been an expert on any kingdom's law), it's just one of those things with decades of tradition holding it up.