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Silks
First of all let me state here and now that their is NO official silks colour for knowledge gained.
It was created by irc chat to try and distiguish between their levels of silk. Since the advent of 3d chat rooms this should be obselete.
But alas it is not.
Reading the passage below might help people understand what is meant by Silks.
Slave Silk, Its Color and Meaning;
The main purpose of slave garments, of course, is not particularly to clothe the girl, for she need not even be clothed, as she is an animal, but to, as I have suggested, "set her off."
Guardsman of Gor, Page 108
There seems to be much confusion in the online environment over the colour of slave silk and what the colour of this silk means. I have researched the entire series and posted here an exhaustive collection of references to the colour of silk. There are, in fact, 12 different variations of colour. However, nowhere in the writings is the colour of silk an indication of the 'level' of a slave. In other words, unlike the belt colour of a karate student, a slave does not start out in one colour, progress through other colours and finally attain a coveted colour.
Predominantly though, there do seem to be a couple of colour preferences.
The first is that many paga slaves are dressed in yellow silk and many dancing
slaves are dressed in scarlet. However this is simply not a hard fast rule.
If you take the time to read through each reference, you will see this.
Now, on to the muchly debated topic
of "white silk" and "red silk".
Firstly I would like for you to read these, three quotes:
“Are you white silk?” I asked. “I am
a virgin,” she said. “Then you are white silk,” I said.
Explorers of Gor, Page 172
Similarly, the expression “red silk,” in Gorean, tends to be used as a category in slaving, and also, outside the slaving context, as an expression in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a virgin, or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body has been opened by men. Its contrasting term is “white silk,” usually used of slaves who are still virgins, or, equivalently, slaves whose bodies have not yet been opened by men. Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the “white-silk” category. It is common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition.
Blood Brothers of Gor, Page 472
Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not a girl has been “opened” for the uses of men. Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are ‘white silk’ and ‘red silk’, for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively.
Dancer of Gor, Page 128
So again without taking up a lot of space, it is obvious that the terms of
'white silk' and 'red silk' do not refer to the colour of clothing a slave
is wearing but instead to whether or not she is a virgin. Does this mean that
every virgin must then be dressed in white silk?
Notice these quotes:
“I have put you in red silk,” I said. “Is it appropriate?” “It certainly is not!” she said. “Perhaps it soon will be,” I said.
Beasts of Gor, Page 405
“Tela, when captured,” he said, indicating a blonde, “begged to be permitted to be kept in white silk.” He laughed. “After throwing her to a crew, for their pleasure, we put her, as she had asked, in white silk.” “Amusing,” I said. “She now often begs for red silk,” he said. “Perhaps we will one day permit it to her.”
Rouge of Gor, Page 197
Two different girls are mentioned. The first, a virgin, is literally dressed in silk of red color. The cloth did not remove her virginity. The second, no longer a virgin, was dressed in white. The colour of white silk did not restore her virginity. It simply pleased the particular master that they were dressed in the colour they were. A virgin need not be dressed in white anymore than a slave who is no longer a virgin be dressed in red. To put it another way, if every virgin had to be dressed in white silk then every girl no longer a virgin would have to be dressed in red silk. Obviously there are many different colours of slave silk. Obviously such a 'rule' simply does not exist. To be sure, of course, the colour of the garment, on Gor, would not be likely to be white, but, commonly, red or yellow. White, on Gor, is a colour commonly associated with virginity. It is, accordingly, worn by few slaves.
Guardsman of Gor, Page 251
Below are links to the coloured silks