The mark consists of a stylized rendition of a turtle drawn in lines to show a perimeter of a shell, four legs, a tail, and a head turned 90 degrees to the left; some marks of unknown meaning appear on the shell in white, and some gaps appear in the tracing lines, particularly at the ends of the feet; the turtle is outlined in white on a black background within a circle, and pink textured threads are formed in loops serving as a frame around ¾ of the circle containing the turtle with an opening on the bottom; the turtle, and frame are centered in a mauve horizontal band, and blue bands arranged horizontally above and below the white band bear the words "SILVER THREAD" in the top band and "BLACKBIRD" in white, "Red Wine" in pink and "Finger Lakes" in white, in the bottom band; gussets are arranged as a faint echo of the textured thread of the frame, and the gussets appear in gray at the corners of the mauve band and opposite edges of the blue bands in white.