Honor Cords – Purple

Purple Honor Cords come as a set including two twisted cords with a tassel on each end (total four tassels). Shipped tied together, or separately, at your option. Each half-cord is around thirty inches long, measured from knot to end of tassel (about sixty inches spread out). Tassel are about four inches. Made from rayon (we do not offer silk). You can mix and match different color cords together. Alternative names for these products are honors cord, honor chords, and honors chords.

Typical Uses

Purple honor cords are usually worn for commencement ceremonies. Used principally for recognition, individual achievement, and as indication of membership or participation.

Who Buys Honor Cords

Members of an honors society, fraternity, sorority, or department recognition coordinator. Also for valedictorian, summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude awards. Additional purchasers: colleges, universities, community college, high schools, individuals, some middle schools and homeschools.

Honor Societies using Purple

Purple honor cords are used in a number of honor society ceremonies for university and college graduations. Honor societies that use purple honors chords as part of their honors regalia include: Beta Phi Mu, Delta Mu Delta, Kappa Delta Pi, Lambda Iota Tau, Phi Sigma Tau, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Rho Chi, and Chi Epsilon.

Honor society links:

There are additional honors societies that use purple than those listed above. Many also use a close variation to that color. If your honor society uses purple, and is not listed above, please drop us an email and let us know, and we will add your name to our list.

This Purple Color

Purple shades range from: cerise, fuchsia, heliotrope, iris, lavender blush, magenta, orchid, persian blue, red-violet, thistle, violet-eggplant, amethyst, eggplant, grape, indigo, lavender, lilac, mauve, mountbatten pink, palatinate, purpure, sangria, violet, and wisteria.

Purple symbolizes royalty. In ancient Rome, cloth dyed Tyrian purple was limited to upper class individuals because of the rarity of the dyes. Imperial is often used to mean purple, such as ‘imperial dye. Graduate academic regalia colors and hoods use purple to designate a degree in Dental Surgery, Jurisprudence, Urban Planning, Architecture, Dentistry, Law, and Regional Planning,

How to Buy

Prices range from $8 to $12 (plus shipping) a set, depending on the quantity you buy. Bulk discounting is available. We offer two ways to buy these cords. The easiest purchase method is to Buy Online .

If your honor society would like to purchase a bulk amount of honors products, please let us know. We may also be able to come to an agreement whereby you contract with Academic to supply all your cords to your various members across the country through our website. As a smaller business than most of our competition, we are often in a position to be flexible about various joint ventures with societies and similar organizations.

Colors

The colors generally available include those listed below. Please note that the colors you see on this page may not be accurate (monitor settings differ). If you would like a free swatch sample, they are included when you request a copy of our catalog.

Those individualized pages include information on what that color symbolizes, honor societies associate with that color, academic regalia using that color, and other useful information.