Design on a 10th degree (“Very Enlightened Brother of St. John’s Lodge”) Swedish Rite apron.
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W on a 9th degree (“Enlightened Brother of St. John’s Cross”) Swedish Rite apron.
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Cross Crosslet Fitchy
“Crosslet” means that the arms are crossed and “fitchy” means that the cross ends in a spike.
As displayed on a 8th degree (“Most Illustrious Brother, Knight of the West”) apron from the Swedish Rite.
General design
Templar Cross
The Templar Cross can be found in Freemasonry in a variety of forms in a variety of systems. 30th Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (and up), 30th degree of Memphis-Misraim, the French Rectified Scottish Rite (‘novice degree’), 8-11th degree of the Swedish Rite, in the Order of the Red Cross (“the insignia of the officers of a Grand Commandery”), to name a few.
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Axe
One of the emblems of the Junior Warden in de Mark degree. It is also the emblem of the Warder in the Royal Ark Mariner degree (crossed axes for the Guardian there too) and (seen above) emblem of the Guard in Knight Templar Freemasonry. In the Swedish Rite of St. Andrew it is a symbol of the 6th degree (see below).
Also in the (historical) “Scottish Master” degree, the axe was one of the items on tracing boards.
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Rosettes
Three Rosettes can sometimes be seen on “craft” Master Mason aprons, usually of English (type) working lodges. Sometimes Fellowcraft aprons have two rosettes, but there are also Fellowcraft aprons with three rosettes, such as in the French “Lodge of St. John” of the Swedish Rite.
The rosettes can also have different colours for different degrees and can differ in number.
Here we have a fourth degree (“Apprentis of Saint Andrews”) of the Swedish Rite.
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