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The arms were officially granted on December 20, 1956. | The arms were officially granted on December 20, 1956. | ||
The shield incorporates several elements used in the design of the Presidential Badge of the Society presented in 1951 by the Worshipful Company of Dyers of the City of London. The shield is divided into three areas of heraldic colour, with purpure and or in the upper areas and azure in the lower. These approximate to the subtractive primary colours. | |||
In the lower area is a silver hexagonal benzene ring, symbolising the chemical and technical achiewments of the industry, placed between two slips of the grain-tree. In the upper areas are placed emblems representing the madder and indigo plants respectively. | |||
The dexter supporter is the goddess Iris, who, as a messenger of the gods, had the rainbow as one of her symbols. She was, in fact, accepted as the goddess of the rainbow, which, in this case, is symbolic of colour in general. As a messenger of the gods she carries in her right hand a caduceus or herald's staff. The sinister supporter is a dyer in seventeenth-century attire holding a skein of silk. | |||
The crest is a purple iris flowering on a wreath of gold and purple, the allusion being to the dexter supporter already described. | |||
The Latin motto Scientia Coloris Ministra ("Science is the Servant of Colour") refers in general terms to the aims both of the Society and of the industry as a whole. | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : | [[Literature]] : The Servant of Colour - the history of the Society of Dyers and Colourists 1884 - 1984. Published by the SDC in 1984, p304-309 | ||
[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1956]] | [[Category:Granted 1956]] | ||