margbhoz.gif Sarah's cartoon for an embroider'd hanging that she and Harriet wrought together of the Regnalka Margarita Bhozetsa in full dress armour with coronett.
The Regnalka had let Sarah study the coronett so that she could render it properly, but proprieties prevented her from wearing it simply for a pose. She did however, put on the belt for Sarah's benefit, even though she found it uncomfortable and rarely wore it.
The rules of the order required only that the gorgett (or the alternative cuirass) be worn at all times by all who had taken its vows except under such circumstances as would normally find them naked. Even the Lengna had gorgetts, and indeed were expected to wear them whenever they wore their cloaks. A Katharinian might, when at ease, go barebreasted under her gorgett if she preferred, as many did in summer, without offence to any sense of modesty. The Regnalka, however, was never comfortable without her tunick and undertop.
Sarah's work tended to be symmetrical and stylised whenever her subjects lent themselves to such treatment, and although at Stephendele this style had been disfavour'd as 'Byzantine', it was well regarded among Katharinians.
Sarah was not, in this sort of cartoon, much concern'd with facial features, but those indicated here -- heart shaped face, deep set green eyes, fairly long upper lip and chin, pale complexion, and high cheekbones -- were very typical of almost all the Bhozetsana, and of many of their subjects as well, Margarita's most distinctive feature being that while most Bhozetsana had auburn hair, hers was almost blond.
Harriet and Sarah themselves were both fortunate in that apart from Harriet's rather narrow face, and the permanent overall blush of Sarah's complexion, neither of them had any features that were at all unusual among the Sovereign Mother's subjects.

In placing the words Regnalka Margarita Bhozetsa under the feet of the portrait, Sarah used the standard text form of the script devised by the Preservers for the Changeless Speech. Reading from left to right, the first character is equivalent to the Latin 'R' with an afterstroke to indicate the following vowel. The absence of the breath stopping diacritical over the 'G' glyph in 'Margarita' reflects a Katharinian substitution of -rgh- for -rg-.