Thank you, Jim, for posting the link to Robert Amyot’s cockade.
It is a very fine one indeed, but for myself I think I would forego the lace and stick to plain ribbon.
I asked Stewart Morris of Balgonie about this very question a while back on Facebook, and he sent me some excellent examples which I have saved on my home computer.
He says weddings are often held in the chapel at Balgonie, and he collects the ribbons afterwards to make himself cockades.
Often they are Jacobite, but on occasion he will make himself a green-and-white cockade reflecting the colours of the arms of Morris of Balgonie.
I thought long and hard about making either a white cockade (Jacobite) or a black one (Hanoverian), and decided I could not be so partisan. Nor did I feel it right for me as a South African to use a blue one (for Scotland).
So when the opportunity arises I will be experimenting with different colours of ribbon to make a South African cockade (probably green and yellow, but perhaps also using all the colours of our national flag), and one based on the colours of my own arms.
Regards,
Mike