Name of Soquili (name the horse!): Bertilak
Give us a name for your design: The Green Knight's Horse
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Best I could findI can't draw to save my life... I tried adding stuff to the pictures, but I think it's easier to describe. I don't want to draw it on and then have someone picture it wrong. It wouldn't do the horse justice.
He is draped with green silks, which have embroidery on them of beautiful things. A saddle sits on his back made of greens and is embroidered with gold in floral and avian designs. There are green jewels set into the saddle as well. The bridle is also green with gold accents, and has small golden bells attached. He is wearing armor on his chest, which is green with gold filigree. In his mane and tail are golden strands. His tail and top-lock (the bangs?) are bound with an emerald colored band, and at this gathering are tiny golden bells and small green jewels.
"...and on his saddle upon silk fabrics:
it would be too hard to rehearse one half of the trifles
that were embroidered upon them, what with birds and with flies
in a gay glory of green, and ever gold in the midst.
The pendants of his poitrel, his proud crupper,
his molains, and all the metal to say more, were enamelled,
even the stirrups... ...were stained of the same;
and his saddlebows in suit, and their sumptuous skirts,
which ever glimmered and glinted all with green jewels"
"The mane of that mighty horse was of much the same sort,
well curled and all combed, with many curious knots
woven in with gold wire about the wondrous green,
ever a strand of the hair and a string of the gold;
the tail and the top-lock were twined all to match
and both bound with a band of brilliant green:
with dear jewels bedight to the dock's ending,
and twisted then on top was a tight-knitted knot
on which many burnished bells of bright gold jingled."
Any additional note: This costume is from the 14th century story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. What happens in the story is that this green knight visits King Arthur's court near the new year, and challenges someone to hit him with his huge ax. A deal is made where the next year he'll be able to hit that same person with it. Sir Gawain is the one to hit him, and chops his head off. But the Green Knight simply walks over to his head and picks it up. The whole thing is actually a tick by Morgan le Fay, she disguised King Bertilak to look like a scary man to see if the knights of King Arthur's court were honorable or not. (If you have the time you should read the tale, it's a good story ^_^)