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Bowyers Flote
Loki:
I never tried to look through the site I'm afraid,payed my five pound entrance fee and walked in the doors,seven years ago :P.
Dont really see the need to remove the Link.. I know they are not a PA sponsor but It's a museum,i didnt think you guys minded links like that? ???
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: Loki on March 09, 2010, 11:50:43 am ---I never tried to look through the site I'm afraid,payed my five pound entrance fee and walked in the doors,seven years ago :P.
Dont really see the need to remove the Link.. I know they are not a PA sponsor but It's a museum,i didnt think you guys minded links like that? ???
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A link to a museum isn't so much of a problem. Unlike you I did go look through the site looking for the flote. That is why I said it was so disorganized. There are so many shops and links to hire the museum for a wedding that you cannot find the actual artifacts. Maybe if I was willing to spend an hour looking, but my opinion is that a museum site should be about artifacts first and all the advertisements and commercial links are second. That is not an informational museum site, it is a comercial site.
CraigMBeckett:
The original arms of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers, shown now on the shield in centre of the attached picture, obtained from
http://www.bowyers.com/arms/arms.html
show representations of floats.
The following description is from their site.
--- Quote ---The arms of the Company were granted by Sir Thomas Holme, Clarenceux King of Arms on 10 November 1488. The main charge is the 'flote' which was a device for planing and smoothing the bow stave. The chevron has no special meaning but is simply to separate the 'flotes' in the design. It is commonly found at this time in arms granted to corporations, livery companies and others. Likewise, so far as we know the mullets are merely decorative.
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Craig.
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bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: CraigMBeckett on March 09, 2010, 06:21:58 pm ---The original arms of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers, shown now on the shield in centre of the attached picture, obtained from
http://www.bowyers.com/arms/arms.html
show representations of floats.
The following description is from their site.
--- Quote ---The arms of the Company were granted by Sir Thomas Holme, Clarenceux King of Arms on 10 November 1488. The main charge is the 'flote' which was a device for planing and smoothing the bow stave. The chevron has no special meaning but is simply to separate the 'flotes' in the design. It is commonly found at this time in arms granted to corporations, livery companies and others. Likewise, so far as we know the mullets are merely decorative.
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Craig.
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The mullets may refer to the victories of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt. The bowyer's arms are the only ones in which a float appears. I have another, more detailed, drawing of a float if someone can accept it on an email. it is not a series of scraper blades. Has anyone looled at a modern float file ?
Steve H:
--- Quote from: Jaro on March 08, 2010, 04:09:26 am ---Besides, what this thema does in "warbow" escapes me.
J.
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I posted in the warbow section as I am into Medieval warbows. Bowyers flotes appear in the inventory lists of wills of some of the medieval bowyers of London (still tracking this information currently). So I was interested in finding out more with the view to getting one made and trying it out.
bow-toxo I have pm'ed you I am very interested in seeing the drawing.
Thanks for all the posts so far they have made for interesting reading and food for thought.
Steve
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