Coat of arms
The coat of arms cut is a coat of arms division carried out by straight or curved boundary lines according to heraldic rules. When describing the coat of arms or blazon , a typical cut designation is used depending on the cut. Many cut figures divide the shield by simple contours. But in modern times more and more complicated cuts have been devised by commercial artists and heraldists .
The heraldic cut
There is the cloud cut, pewter cut, notch cut, clover leaf cut, sawtooth cut and many other division lines typical of the coat of arms. The wealth of variants increases not only through the double execution of the pattern, but also through the direction of division (position in the coat of arms). An example is the pewter cut. Here the cut does not run horizontally or vertically, but diagonally from top right to bottom left in the coat of arms. There is also the option from top left to bottom right. The layout of the pattern (axis of the cut) follows the upper edge of the shield.
Head-up heraldic cuts are also common. These are emblazoned as overthrown . The variety of the heraldic cuts allows the creation of unmistakable coats of arms quickly . The heraldic cuts, which have been in use for centuries, mutated into double cuts.
List of heraldic cuts
Surname | Blason | Characteristic | variants | example |
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Branch cut | branched | sloping battlements | ||
Bow cut | bent in, bent out | tips rounded in or rounded off | several arches see also scale / flap cut | |
Cymbal cut | Monkshood cut or pewter cut , which is more pointed | |||
Thorn cut or scar cut (old) | ||||
Double cloud section | like notched hearts | Shield head divided by a double cloud cut | ||
Double tin cut | ||||
Monkshood cut | like monkshood ( Feh ) | |||
Flame cut | ||||
Counter battlements | ||||
Göpelschnitt | ||||
Half-back cut | ||||
Heart cut | ||||
Yoke cut | ||||
Notch cut | notched | consisting of small curves | ||
Pewter cut | with notched battlements | |||
Shamrock arch | Element of architecture on the gates and windows of castles or towers | |||
Shamrock cut | with shamrock | |||
Cross cut | with cross | |||
Cross pewter cut | if crosses on the battlements are | |||
Curve section | ||||
Flap cut | lobed | also cuticle | ||
Lily cut | ||||
Linden leaf cut | Shape of the snail cut | |||
Moon cut (circle cut) | Division / cleavage line interrupted and curved to the right or left by a crescent moon or semicircle | |||
Palisade cut | Divided into a palisade | with palisades ; the representation in the heraldry as short pointed posts | ||
Pile cut | ||||
Plug (s) cut | divided obliquely to the left with five plugs | |||
Sawtooth cut | ||||
Clapboard cut | like pewter cut, but coarser (and other thematic reference) | |||
Chess pawn cut | ||||
Snail cut | ||||
Pewter cut | Pewter cut, oblique | |||
Dovetail cut | swallowed | with dovetail | ||
Cuticle | flaked out (lobed) | also: flap cut , consisting of small rounded corners (see also curved cut ) | ||
Gusset cut | Pointed cut with 60 degrees | |||
Lace cut | if there are few peaks the number is given, e.g. B. with four overturned tips | Point angle 75 degrees | ||
Step cut | if the higher part is on the right side, it means divided with the right step, otherwise with the left | when the line is broken alternately to the left and right at right angles | ||
Stepped gable cut | tinned rafters | |||
Swoop cut | split in a surge cut | inclined waves rolling over the apex | Divisions and splits in different directions of the waves | |
Fir cut ( pine top / top cut) | and pewter cut | |||
Fir rice cut | stylized | |||
Peat moss cut | ||||
Wave cut | oblique left | |||
Wave cut | ||||
Wolf teeth | tips that are rounded or curved and come out of the side margin | |||
Cloud cut | like Wolkenfeh | |||
Tooth cut | Pointed cut at 45 degrees | coarse fine | ||
Zigzag cut | little pips | |||
Tin cut (flat tin cut) | with battlements | Division division |
Gradient forms
See also
Web links
- Bernhard Peter: Introduction to heraldry: coat of arms design with sleek divisions - to extravagant cuts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Large and general book of arms . BoD - Books on Demand, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-95507-686-3 , p. 274. (Origin Nuremberg 1889 published by Bauer and Raspe)