Base Enarched (1)
Peripheral ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
No default posture.
No default orientation.
No default tincture.
Peripheral ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Peripheral ordinary.
Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.
Central ordinary. A bend embowed to chief.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary. A bend embowed to chief.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Term is French, suggesting the upper corners are “cloaked” or “mantled.” Corners are typically not charged. Issues from sides of device and reaches the center chief.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
The central area is blazoned first, then the corners, as “tincture chaussé ployé tincture.” Term is French, suggesting the lower corners are “shod.” Corners are typically not charged. Issues from chief corners of device and reaches the center base. Similar to a pile throughout, but stretches the full width of the chief and is treated as a field division rather than a charge.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Peripheral ordinary. Considered a step from period practice (SFPP) as of the Dec 2011 LoAR.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Peripheral ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Curved lines are used for divisions or ordinaries which are enarched, embowed, arrondi, or ployé.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
No proper coloration.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures. If curves face in the other direction, blazoned “gyronny arrondi widdershins.”
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. When a gyronny field is combined with a chief, the gyronny’s center shifts downwards.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures. If curves face in the other direction, blazoned “gyronny arrondi widdershins.”
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. When a gyronny field is combined with a chief, the gyronny’s center shifts downwards.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures. If curves face in the other direction, blazoned “gyronny arrondi widdershins.”
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures. If curves face in the other direction, blazoned “gyronny arrondi widdershins.”
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Multi-part field division. Must use two contrasting tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Threefold field division. One tincture must have good contrast with its neighbors. Similar to “per pall arrondi,” sometimes blazoned “tierced in gyrons arrondi,” or in German “Schneckendreipass” (snail-three-parted).
Source: Siebmacher’s Wappenbuch of 1605. Artist: Johann Siebmacher.
Threefold field division. One tincture must have good contrast with its neighbors. Similar to “per pall arrondi,” sometimes blazoned “tierced in gyrons arrondi,” or in German “Schneckendreipass” (snail-three-parted).
Source: Siebmacher’s Wappenbuch of 1605. Artist: Johann Siebmacher.
May use any two tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
May use any two tinctures. Must issue from sides of device. Must be centered on the fess line. Angle may be narrower or wider than 90°.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Equal field division. May use any two tinctures. Enarched is treated as a division per fess with a complex line, although for conflict checking it is considered equivalent to a plain division per fess.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
May use any two tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
May use any two tinctures.
Source: Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Bruderschaft. Artist: Vigil Raber.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Central ordinary.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
May use any two tinctures.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
Similar to a lozenge ployé throughout, but is treated as a field division rather than a charge.
Source: Book of Traceable Heraldic Art. Artist: Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.