That’s a pretty quilt! <3
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I do it for my cats!
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I. Forgot. Pickles. Where were you!?
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After posting that pickle printed anorak?
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I was at home. Eating pickles.
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William shatter, eating an invisible pickle.
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He’s rather aggressive about it.
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That man sure does love his pickles.
I am SOOOOO sorry for the continued thread hijack. I blame pickles. I mean, I blame @japhroaig. Who am I kidding? I have my own weak impulses to blame.
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Unverified pickle history, from http://www.gedneyfoods.com/About-Pickling/History-of-Pickles
George Washington had a collection of 476 different kinds of pickles. In 850 BC Aristotle praised the healing benefits of the pickle, and Thomas Jefferson wrote: “On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout, like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally’s cellar.”
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To avoid the utter silliness of trying to figure out which set of heraldry actually goes with my family name, I usually just pick with the clan that my great-grandma, a Paterson, was associated with.
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No worries. This has been fun.
This project evolved from a smaller ambition. I’ve recently gotten into working with silver clay. I decided I wanted to make a signet ring from sterling silver, and so I set out to design a crest to go on it with a motto engraved into the band using the laser at the hackerspace where I’m a member. The crest is done and I’m working on the wax relief to cast the ring’s intaglio of it. Now I want to build a whole coat of arms around it so I can do some sort of wall art. My wife designed a dragon and mermaid for the supporters, and I’m working on the shield. The motto has turned out to the be the hardest decision.
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Except that he’s right, in the English system, that the crest component can be the same for a family, while the arms themselves belong to the individual, to be inherited by their eldest son (at least, I don’t think this has changed). The idea of ‘family arms’ seems quite gauche in England, although there are plenty of prats over here who think it works that way, and probably fly England flags from their houses and vote UKIP.
That said, the continental systems seem to be quite different.
I reckon this would look good atop a pimp hat.
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This thread inspired me to go find my family’s coat of arms. My great-grandfather gave me a picture of it about 35 years ago, along with a 6 century family tree, but of course I was a clueless teenage doofus and lost them somewhere along the way. So, Google to the rescue.
My family apparently spent a lot of time fighting the Turks.
Note the awesome pimp hat.
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I’m not sure you’re aware of this, but heraldic engravers developed a scheme to represent colors using patterns of lines and dots…Unfortunately, all of these details seem to have been compressed out of your picture, (and perhaps ironically, even in web articles that explain the practice. Watch out for evil JPEGs !)
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The crest of the Italian House of Visconti: a serpent (Biscione) either swallowing a Saracen or giving birth to a child – the motto is “Vipereos mores non violabo” (“I will not violate the Snake’s uses”)
The Biscione is also the symbol of the Sforza family,the city of Milan and Alfa Romeo:
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I really like the sculptural rendition. The Alpha Romeo badge simplifies too much.
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The abatements are the most important bits:
Gusset sanguine borne to sinister…
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