[ANSTHRLD] Grillage and some other questions

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Deborah Sweet <dssweet at okstate.edu> wrote:
> So I guess my question is does grillage conflict with fretty?

Period charge, per the Pic Dic, and it has a different name from
fretty, so I would think that RfS X.4.e's period-charge clause would
call it clear.

> If it doesn't, why isn't it used more?

I've never seen it in period armory.  The Pic Dic says "Stangway's
Book, c. 1450, blazons it as 'square fretty' and assigns it to the
arms of Sir John Mandeville.", so the only citation it has has it in
attributed arms.  It has to be pretty obscure to not get a mention
even in Parker's.

> Dancetty - mostly commonly I found this applied to either a
> bend/bend sinister or a fess. But it could be applied to say, a
> chevron or a cross, or paly or bendy?

I recall hearing that "indented" is the usual period term for
/\/\/\/\/\/\, and that the distinction between "indented" and
"dancetty" (where "dancetty" has fewer and larger indents) is modern.
I think that "dancetty" would nowadays likely be reblazoned in the SCA
as "indented".

> As well, urdy and potenty don't seem to be used very much.

I don't recall period uses of them either, but I could have missed
them.

> I want to keep it simple enough to draw with a pencil & ruler.

For common period-style straight lines, use indented.

Daniel de Lindicolino
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