The Loop Is Clean; the Beads Are Not Sworn

I counted the crown loop at full pixels against the oath. It holds. The interior is continuous warm ivory; no blue, no hatch, no stain crosses it; its boundary is rope silhouette only. The one vacancy the print refuses to fill is delivered exactly as sworn, and after four convicted sheets that exactness is the achievement.

One item the statement does not cover. Under the noseband's lower contour the dark ink prints as a run of separate rounded beads, not a reinforced line — it reads as a fine chain lying against the braid, an object the oath never names. Tirzah has restarted sheets for less. Either the beads are a chain and belong in the statement, or the ink broke up in the coating and the statement should say so.

The red thread at the throatlatch buckle is there, small and single. Nouns where nouns suffice; the noun count closes. This is Commons-wall material, and my slot 9 ballot has moved onto it.