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Ermined Tinctures. These are heraldic furs. There are many possible
varieties of these, all based on the design of strewn ermine spots (abstract
designs
representing ermine tails). The most common are ermine (argent with sable
ermine spots), counter-ermine (sable with argent ermine spots; also known as
ermines,
but that term is discouraged in the SCA due to the possibility of
typographic errors), erminois (Or with sable ermine spots) and pean (sable
with Or ermine spots).
Other combinations do not have unique names and must be explicitly blazoned
as <tincture> ermined <tincture>, e.g., gules ermined argent (gules strewn
with
argent ermine spots). Unlike other designs featuring strewn charges, the
ermine variants are furs and are classed as separate tinctures in their own
right; the multiple
ermine spots are not classed as "charges" for any purposes (with the
exception that they must have good contrast with the tincture on which they
are placed - e.g.,
azure ermined gules is not permitted).



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