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by Rosemary A. Chorzempa
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ISBN: 048624993X Dover Publications Price: $4.95 |
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Design your own personal coat of arms. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits, and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs, and stationery or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges, and much more.
Table of Contents for Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry
| Introduction | |||||||
| Instruction Section | |||||||
| Designing and Coloring Your Own Coat of Arms | |||||||
| Components of a Coat of Arms | |||||||
| Marks of Cadency | |||||||
| Parts of the Field | |||||||
| Marshalling Coats of Arms | |||||||
| Women and Traditional Heraldry | |||||||
| Blazonry | |||||||
| Canting Arms | |||||||
| National Heraldry | |||||||
| Blazonry of Medieval Europe | |||||||
| What to Do with Your Coat of Arms | |||||||
| Heraldry in Legend and in the World Around Us | |||||||
| Where to Have a Coat of Arms Designed for You | |||||||
| Where to Register and Record Your Coat of Arms; Heraldry Societies | |||||||
| A Selected Bibliography | |||||||
| Workbook Section | |||||||
| Shields | |||||||
| Parting the Field | |||||||
| Lines of Partition | |||||||
| Ordinaries | |||||||
| Ordinaries and Sub-Ordinaries | |||||||
| Common Charges (Large) | |||||||
| Common Charges (Small) | |||||||
| "Helmets, Crowns, Knots and Fur" | |||||||
| Mantling | |||||||
| Scrolls |