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Red and Blue Aprons: What's the difference?

AyrStrat

Texan-Brazilian Freemason
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Premium Member
In our Blue Lodge, Masters and Officials use only blue aprons.

However, we've recently received a visitor from Europe who was using a red apron.

What exactly defines the colour of the apron? The rite or the degree/position within the rite?

Kind Regards
 
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jermy Bell

Registered User
I've wondered that. I bought a apron from the early 1900s, it's red/ maroon ? With gold threaded square and compass and G. I can't find any information on it, if it's European or from here in the states.
 

Glen Cook

G A Cook
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In our Blue Lodge Masters and Officials only use blue aprons.

However, we've recently received a visitor from Europe who was using a red apron.

What exactly defines the colour of the apron? The rite or the degree/position within the rite?

Kind Regards
1. From which jurisdiction?

2. Fundamentally, it is grand lodge law which defines the apron, but it may be due to office or Rite, depending on the GL.
 

Mark Stockdale

Premium Member
In our Blue Lodge Masters and Officials only use blue aprons.

However, we've recently received a visitor from Europe who was using a red apron.

What exactly defines the colour of the apron? The rite or the degree/position within the rite?

Kind Regards
Here in Scotland the apron is different for almost every Lodge. It's great to see the variations you get on a meeting night when you get many visitors.

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Glen Cook

G A Cook
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Grand Orient de France
I hope you didn’t sit in lodge with the individual. That jurisdiction is not recognized by GL Texas. Texas is in amity with GLNF. For those reasons, I could only speculate as to the apron.
 

AyrStrat

Texan-Brazilian Freemason
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Premium Member
I put it wrong in my post, since we were all having a conversation after the session about the fact that the Grand Orient de France is in fact not recognized neither by UGLE nor the Grand Lodge of Texas, but despite it they even have lodges in Houston. I made a confusion.

He is from the Grande Loge Nationale Française.

All previous credentials check and contacts between both Grand Lodge of Texas and GLNF were made with many weeks of anticipation.

However, his apron was red.
 

Brother JC

Moderating Staff
Staff Member
Every jurisdiction has its own rules that have nothing to do with any other jurisdiction. Your MM apron is the same as an English EA apron... go fig!
 

Winter

Premium Member
Every jurisdiction has its own rules that have nothing to do with any other jurisdiction. Your MM apron is the same as an English EA apron... go fig!
And my EC Lodge in Wisconsin wears UGLE regalia and aprons since we work in the Emulatuon Rite. We are not even the same as the rest of our own jurisdiction!

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Scoops

Registered User
Here, within Craft Lodges, a red apron (specifically crimson) is reserved for Grand Stewards and Provincial Grand Stewards, past and present.
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Scoops

Registered User
Very nice. Is the sash standard in all Scottish lodges or does it vary lodge to lodge? The reason I ask is we have a couple of semi-regular visitors from North of the border. They come from different lodges but both wear sashes, although of different design to match their aprons.

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Mark Stockdale

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Very nice. Is the sash standard in all Scottish lodges or does it vary lodge to lodge? The reason I ask is we have a couple of semi-regular visitors from North of the border. They come from different lodges but both wear sashes, although of different design to match their aprons.

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I haven't been to 1 yet where they don't wear a sash, but I suppose it's possible
 
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