BLAZON: heraldic description of a shield or a flag There is a lot, due to space, that couldn’t be covered here. Check out the following Emblazon: heraldic picture resources for more information on heraldry. Tincture Eq. Color Metal/Color SCA College of Arms - Education Articles: http://heraldry.sca.org/education.html Argent White/ Metal Heraldry for Scribes: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027113101/http:// www.geocities.com/sorchamacleod/hfs.html West Kingdom - Heraldry for Scribes (includes how to draw a shield): http:// Azure Blue Color scribes.westkingdom.org/H2-HeraldryForTheScribe.html Gules Red Color Heraldic Atlas (examples of charges): http://www.heraldica.org/topics/glossary/ atlas.htm Or Yellow/Gold Metal
SCA CoA Glossary of Terms: http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html Purpure Purple Color Furs: (R-L) Ermine, Counter-ermine, Erminois, Pean, Vair, Potent A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry: http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/ Vert Green Color Proper Tinctures: when Jpglossa.htm a charge is emblazoned as Sable Black Color it appears in nature. OSCAR (can search for blazons to see images from submissions): https://oscar.sca.org/ A pine tree vert, trunked RULE OF TINCTURE (RoT): No metals on brun vs. A pine tree Pennsic Traceable Art Project: http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/ proper. metals, no colors on colors. Imagine IndivPDFs/ToC.html you’re cutting the shield out from bits Grammar of Blazonry: http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/bruce.html of paper and stacking it! Ordinaries: like field divisions, but considered ON the Period Rolls of Arms and Armorials (and how to find them): http://heraldry.sca.org/ field, not part of it- RoT APPLIES. armory/periodrolls.html Derived from field divisions, but also include: Chief: horizontal band right across the top of the shield “Commonly Known” Heraldic Blazon/Emblazon Knowledge (includes some default Bordure: the boundary of the shield orientations): http://heralds.westkingdom.org/CommonBlazonKnowledge.htm Lines: always straight unless specified You can find all of these links (and more over time) here: http://bit.ly/hearald4scribe Wavy Dancetty Engrailed (bites out) Invected (bumps Leah Jolifaunt of Schattentor added) MKA Marti Fuerst All of the images here are used I et reperi additamentum under the “fair use” argument, Dovetailed Go and discover something more because we’re learnin’ stuff! Embattled http://biblionalia.info/leah Yay learnin’ stuff! Rayonny [email protected] Urdy Field divisions: not considered “on top of” each other, since the field is a Arrangement: how charges are placed in a grouping. Default for three charges is “two single layer; blazoned from top to bottom, left to right (as you would read). and one.”
Inverted: upside-down Sinister: Reversed (starting from viewer’s right) Or, in fess three crescents pendant sable between in pale two dragons statant gules. 1. Per bend sable 9. Per saltire and azure sable and 2. Per bend azure
sinister … 10. Quarterly … Azure, in pale two tygers passant contourny 3. Per chevron … 11. Gyronny … queue-forchy argent. 4. Per chevron 12. Barry… inverted … 13. Bendy … 5. Per fess … 14. Bendy Azure, three escallops two and one Or. 6. Per pale … sinister .... 7. Per pall sable, 15. Chequy … or, and azure 16. Paly … 8. Per pall 17. Lozengy… Per chevron azure and gules, three Geometric Charges inverted, sable 18. Pily ... dogwood blossoms one and two and a or, and azure tower argent. Roundels: Roundels of each tincture have Per bend sinister azure and argent, in bend three wolves passant counterchanged special names. Annulet Billet Cross Couped Delf Fret Per bend sinister Or and purpure, in bend sinister two butterflies bendwise sinister counterchanged, the one in chief inverted. Pellet/ Fountain Gunstone/ Mascle Mullet Mullet of six Roundel Ogress points
Hurt Plate
Lozenge Label Saltorel Torteau Gouttes: Stylized droplets. Rarely singular. Semy = goutty. In saltire Special names like roundels. Bezant Addorsed Confronté In saltire (back to back) (face to face) inverted Pomme Combatant for rampant beasts, Respectant for Golpe beasts in other postures Counterchange: When tinctures (a metal and a color) of field, charges, Quadruped postures: positions for -4 legged beasts and ordinaries switch across a line of division. Per pale gules and argent, a bend sinister between two hammers counterchanged. Cardinal Directions of Heraldry: to dexter chief (or to canton) (northwest) to base (= toward the bottom point of the to sinister chief (or to sinister canton) rampant salient courant passant statant shield) (northeast) to chief (= toward the top edge of the to dexter base (southwest) shield) to sinister base (southeast) to dexter (= toward the viewer's left) to sinister (= toward the viewer's right) sejant sejant sejant sejant couchant dormant Orientations: Charges such as billets, cartouches, lozenges, and mascles, have a erect affronty erject single axis but no "top end". For these charges, only four orientations can be specified: Head position: default is to affronty palewise (vertical) the viewer’s left. bendwise (diagonal from the left) Avian postures: positions for birds bendwise sinister (diagonal from the right) Default: close (wings closed, facing viewer’s left) fesswise (horizontal) Eagle: Displayed When these charges appear singly on the field, their default orientation is "palewise". Reserved: Cranes in their vigilance, peacocks in
their pride, pelicans in their piety sejant sejant sejant gardant regardant
Wing Postures: Can be used in combination
palewise fesswise bendwise bendwise addorsed and sinister Eagle Peacock in its Pelican in its elevated Crane in its Charges, such as chalices, hearts, pheons, and trees, have a single axis with a clearly- displayed pride piety/Pelican vigilance defined "top" and "bottom" that can be swapped. The first four orientations above vulning displayed and apply to these charges as well, with the additional constraint that the "top" end of inverted the charge is to chief for palewise, bendwise, or bendwise sinister charges and to dexter for fesswise charges. Inverted = swap top for bottom displayed and elevated Reversed = swap left for right close volant rising CLose (wings can be affronty/ addorsed and elevated or displayed, Close gardant inverted palewise fesswise addorsed or not) inverted reversed Sea-Creature postures: positions for fish, crustaceans, etc. Erasure: when a body part is Example charges: separate. From left to right— erased—ragged edge couped—clean edge caboshed—no neck, facing front
escallop Other charges: because a large heraldic vocabulary is good! crab lobster kraken dolphin
lucy/pike water- addice (hoe) scythe cauldron chalice bouget whale embowed
naiant
urinant horn haurient axe sheaf of clarion harp Embowed- arrows counterembowed
Reptile and insect postures: A serpent default for the majority of non- A bee erect. volant snake reptiles and insects is A turtle tergiant, or top-down. Winged tergiant A serpent pheon sword maunche insects are tergiant but blazoned gauntlet helm knowed (sleeve) volant. Plants: With stem = slipped With stem and leaves= slipped and leaved Rose with different leaf tincture= barbed Rose with different center tincture=seeded A rose argent, A thistle argent, barbed vert and slipped and leaved seeded gules vert tower arch savage’s From left to right: an oak tree couped, an oak head hand tree eradicated, and an oak tree blasted. arm