ANSTHRLD - Depicting Fur on Ordinaries

[Darin K. Herndon]

My lady wife asked me the following and, per her request, I am forwarding
it to the heralds on this list.

>Hi!  Thought you might know the answer to this or might want to post it to
>the Ansteorran heralds list:
>
>I was studying the excerpt from the Glover's Roll facing the  title page of
>Early Blazon (Gerard J. Brault, Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1972) and
>noticed several interesting examples of fur patterns following the shape
>of an ordinary.  One shows a cross vair, with the "bells" vertical on the
>upright and horizontal on the cross arms (pointing inward on each side).
>Another example shows a chevron ermine, with the ermine tails angled
>to follow the shape of the chevron on each side, meeting at a single
>vertical tail in the center.  A final example shows a bordure vair.  The
>section across the straight top edge of the sheild is depicted the
>conventional way, but down each side it is shown as a vertical string of
>"bells", curved to follow the shape of the sheild, terminating in a single
>vertical "bell" at the point.
>
>My questions as an artist are: 1) Is this conventional practice for SCA
>heraldic depictions (I have yet to see a fur bordure, chevron or cross in
>SCA heraldry)?  2) If not standard, is  it an SCA-acceptable way of
>depicting the items in question?

Please respond via the list as she no longer has personal e-mail.

Seigneur Etienne de St. Amaranth
Obelisk Herald


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