Black.—On Good Friday, and funerals, and on public fasts.
Green.—On all other days.
Cloth-of-Gold is said to supply all other colours. It seems possible that this is with reference to Psalm xlv. 9, 13.
[EMBLEMS.]
St. John, xv. 5.
I am the Vine, ye are the branches.
It is hardly necessary to observe that the only ornamentation suitable to a text from Holy Scripture is that which conveys to the mind some religious thought; and such thoughts are naturally suggested by forms that figuratively represent some holy attribute or virtue.
Crosses.