Description
Emulation Rite (French style)
Hand embroidery
This Worshipful Master apron is hand-embroidered. It is decorated with a blue ribbon border, three Taus with a tricolour edge and two pendants.
The blue belt is adjustable with a bronze snake clasp. A blue back with a lining and two back pockets for gloves and accessories.
The Taus with a tricolour edge follow French usage.
Dimensions: 41 x 36 cm (16"x14")
This Worshipful Master collar in sky-blue natural silk is decorated with a silver rosette boss (bossoir) and a tricolour cockade. The blue back is lined.
With its tricolour cockade, this collar follows French usage.
Width: 11 cm. The dimensions are standard and in line with the requirements of the rites and the regulations of the Masonic obediences.
Features
- Pack contents: one Worshipful Master apron and one collar
- Material of your choice: faux leather or natural silk
- Apron: 41 x 36 cm, blue ribbon, three Taus with tricolour edge, two pendants
- Collar: sky-blue natural silk, silver bossoir, tricolour cockade, 11 cm wide
- Condition: new
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Emulation Working Regalia (traditional and French style)
The Grand Lodge of London, most likely founded in 1721 rather than 1717, according to recent historical research, was an innovation in 17th-century English speculative Freemasonry, and only two of its Lodges existed before 1721.
Older Lodges refused to join it, later reinforced by the Lodges of Irish immigrants who had fled to England following the famine of 1740-41. In 1751, these Lodges of ancient tradition federated in turn into an obedience, the Grand Lodge in London of Free and Accepted Mason’s According to the Old Institution, commonly called the Antients' Grand Lodge, as opposed to that of 1721, referred to as the Moderns' Grand Lodge.
In 1813, the two obediences merged to form the United Grand Lodge of England. The Lodge Emulation Lodge of Improvement was tasked with composing the rituals of the new Masonic obedience. The work was carried out between 1813 and 1816, and the new Rite then took the name of Emulation Working (Emulation Working in French, although it would be more correct to say Emulation Style).
The adoption of this Rite marks the ritual victory of the Antients over the Moderns. The ritual of the Moderns then disappeared from English Freemasonry, surviving only through continental Rites (especially French), which had begun under the leadership of the Moderns: thus, it is in the Craft degrees of the French Rite and the RSR that one finds the most traces of the ritual practices of the Moderns.
The distinctive feature of the Emulation Working is that it must be practised by heart and that the Workings are limited to the successive opening of the three Craft degrees, and then their closing in reverse order. Any lectures take place solely during the festive board following the meeting.
Only a few French obediences work the Emulation Working, with a difference compared to the Masonic regalia used in England: the sky blue rosettes decorating the aprons and collars are overlaid in France with a blue-white-red tricolour rosette.
On Nos Colonnes, you will find all the Masonic regalia necessary for practising the Emulation Working, in its French version as well as in its traditional English form, as well as accessories such as hats and kippahs, ties, bow ties or jewels…
Frequently asked questions about regalia for this rite
Which apron for an Entered Apprentice in the Emulation Working?
A plain white apron. See the Emulation Entered Apprentice and Fellowcraft regalia.
Which apron for a Master Mason in the Emulation Working?
An apron trimmed with sky blue and decorated with rosettes. See the Emulation Master Mason regalia.
Where can I find regalia for the Worshipful Master and Officers?
In the Emulation Worshipful Master and Officers regalia; the entire rite is gathered in the Emulation Working collection.
