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	Tincture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the colors used in a coat of arms, see tincture (heraldry).
		In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g.
		Tincture of ferric citrochloride (a chelate of citric acid and Iron(III) chloride)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tincture (240 words)

	Tincture (heraldry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to blazon a coat of arms.
		In German heraldry there are also the colours "grey", "Eisen" (iron) and "water colour," though there are unique appearances of "grey" in the heraldry of South Africa[5] and the United States,[6] (It is unclear how "water colour" should be depicted.
		In the heraldry of the United States Army the colours buff[14] and horizon blue[15] have appeared, and silver gray has appeared in the heraldry of the Army[16] and Air Force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tincture_(heraldry) (2407 words)

	Heraldry Biography @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Heraldry is the science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms.
		The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts, whose faces were hidden by steel helmets.
		In English heraldry the crescent, mullet (a star with straight rays, which originally represented a spur), martlet, annulet, fleur-de-lis and rose may be added to a shield to distinguish cadet branches of a family from the senior line.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Heraldry (2697 words)

	Heraldry - MSN Encarta
		Heraldry, originally, the many duties and functions of a herald or officer at arms, including the devising and granting of armorial bearings, or coats of arms.
		Symbolic and ornamental figures similar to those of heraldry have been used as tribal or national emblems since ancient times; for example, the Romans used the eagle, and the French employed first the lion and later the fleur-de-lis.
		Attesting to the continued interest in heraldry was the establishment, in 1980, of the Herald's Museum in the Tower of London; the collection of heraldic objects traces the history of English heraldry from the 12th century to the present.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565530/Heraldry.html (873 words)

	Armorial Gold Heraldry Dictionary
		After naming the tincture of the field, the Honourable Ordinaries or other principal figures, their attributes must be specified, that is whether they be indented, engrailed, wavy, etc., and afterwards their metal and colour.
		In blazoning of heavenly bodies, such as the sun, moon, and planets, first the state or condition must be stated as to the sun whether in his meridian or eclipse; as to the moon whether in her increase or decrease, etc., and in general proper astronomical terms should be employed.
		Heraldry art samples are provided as a courtesy to potential buyers and the heraldry samples remain the property of Armorial Gold Heraldry Services.
	www.heraldryclipart.com /how-to-blazon.html (2617 words)

	More on Heraldry
		Heraldry is the science and art of describing of coats-of-arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings.
		However, in heraldry, a crest is just one component of a coat-of-arms, so using the word to refer to the entire coat is in fact incorrect.
		For many more people, heraldry is seen as a part of their national, and even personal, heritage, as well as being a manifestation of civic and national pride.
	www.eduhistory.com /heraldry.htm (2610 words)

	ipedia.com: Tincture (heraldry) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Table of contents 1 Basic tinctures 1.1 Later tinctures 2 The rule of tincture 3 Furs 3.2 Ermine and its variants 3.3 Vair and its v...
		Azure is from the Arabic lazward meaning lapis lazuli; sable is named for the fur of the sable marten; and gules is from the French gueules, which is thought to refer to animal's red throats.
		In Italian heraldry terms such as per inchiesta are used in the blazons of the extremely rare violations of the rule, to acknowledge their exceptionality, or impropriety.
	www.ipedia.com /tincture__heraldry_.html (1904 words)

	Heraldry for Scribes
		In British heraldry, a lion (and by extension, any animal) is langued and armed gules, even when this violates the Rule of Tincture.
		In Continental heraldry, tongue and claws are generally the same color as the beast.
		Commonly the contrasting tincture used is either fl or the tincture of the field.
	www.phmoms.com /Scribal/L2_HeraldryForTheScribe.htm (4247 words)

	Coats of Arms in Ireland and from around the world
		When describing such partitioned shield, in the case of those partitioned horizontally the tincture of the topmost part is listed first, while the dexter is described first in the case of a vertical partition.
		The tincture of the ordinary (and this rule applies to other charges too) is stated after the name and description of it.
		If a shield consists of only two tinctures and the charges are not borne on each other, then the tincture name comes after the ordinary and the charge description.
	www.heraldry.ws /heraldry (5347 words)

	Heraldry : search word
		Its origins are in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted on their shields.
		The first thing the blazon describes is the tincture (colour) of the field (background) (though in some cases of "landscape heraldry" all or part of the field is some sort of landscape), and then it describes the placement and tinctures of the different charges (objects) on the shield.
		It is also possible that the voiding is of a different shape than the voided charge, as in the arms of Newton Technical High School in South Africa: "Quarterly gules and sable; a lozenge or voided of a quatrefoil; at its centre a cog wheel argent; the whole within a border or".
	www.searchword.org /he/heraldry.html (2821 words)

	Valentine Armouries - Heraldry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Heraldry originated in medieval western europe during the period of tournaments.
		is the branch of heraldry concerned with coat armour and also describes a book of coats of arms listed in the order of the names of the bearers.
		The rules to choosing colours are that a tincture cannot be placed on a tincture, nor a metal on a metal, for the simple reason that at a distance it would not be noticable.
	www.varmouries.com /vherald.html (587 words)

	HERALDRY
		The normal rule is; no tincture can be placed on top of another tincture and may only be placed next to another if the combination shows a distinct contrast.
		Many animal charges were used in the art of heraldry, the creatures chosen were as often fantasy/mythological as real.
		In heraldry to "blazon" means to write a description of a device while to "emblazon" refers to an artistic representation of arms.
	www.rameset.com /heraldry.htm (938 words)

	Heraldry Facts
		Heraldry is mostly a hobby today; but in some countries it remains regulated by heralds and the assumption of another's arms is illegal.
		The first rule of heraldry is the rule of tincture: metal must never be placed upon metal, nor colour upon colour, for the sake of contrast, and because this was technically difficult to do at the time.
		In heraldry, a motto is often depicted in a coat of arms, typically on a scroll under the arms, or else above it as in Scots heraldry.
	www.coat-of-arms.com /features.html (2838 words)

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		Iberian Heraldry - The standard arrangement and number of charges on a plain field is six charges, or charges arranged in rows of three (so there would be two rows of three for six, three rows of three for nine), or twelve charges arranged in three ranks of four.
		Their Use in Scottish heraldry should be avoided, since the Thistle was a badge of the Scottish Royalty from the 15th century on.
		In Iberian heraldry, the Castle was a Common secondary or tertiary charge, since it was allusive to the castle on the arms of Castille.
	www.s-gabriel.org /heraldry/lothar/regional-style-draft.txt (9313 words)

	Islamic Heraldry
		The scope of this presentation concerns the heraldry the Muslims in the late Middle Ages - that is to say, it concerns the heraldry of the Ayyubid and Mamluk dynasties of Egypt and Syria from roughly the late 12th Century A.D. through the very early 16th Century.
		Muslim heraldry was not regulated by the government, although the right to bear such insignia was originally granted by the Sultan.
		In the colored examples which remain, Muslim heraldry limited itself to seven tinctures, Or, argent, gules, vert, azure, sable, and brown, plus "self-colored" (the color of the material on which the emblazon was placed.
	www.geocities.com /ohssymp/2002_Symposium/isher.html (1866 words)

	SCA - West Kingdom College of Heralds
		Note that there are many websites on the internet that discuss heraldry, not all of them limit themselves to SCA heraldry, and many of those have terms and/or illustrations of charges that are not used in SCA heraldry.
		The barbing and seeding may be of a different tincture from the rose.; when blazoned barbed and seeded proper the barbs (sepals) are vert and the seeds Or.
		In SCA heraldry a rose proper is gules, barbed vert and seeded Or.
	heralds.westkingdom.org /CommonBlazonKnowledge.htm (9403 words)

	Rafal T. Prinke - Hermetic Heraldry
		Studies devoted to hermetic symbolism seldom touch upon its connections with heraldry though it seems that they should be obvious even to someone with quite limited knowledge of both systems of symbolism.
		HERMETIC HERALDRY which includes (a) the influence of early hermetic ideas on the developement of the heraldic system of coat-of-arms symbolism and (b) the conscious use of hermetic symbols and emblems in later heraldic designs in order to show the owner's interests or make the arms "speak".
		European heraldry, as we know it, is the creation of the chivalric society of the early 12th century and therefore it is obvious that if any hermetic symbolism can be discerned in it, it must have preceded heraldry itself and not the other way round.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/hermhera.html (3361 words)

	SCA Inc. College of Arms Glossary of Terms, December 23, 2003
		The charges in groups in heraldry usually fall into standard arrangements depending on their number and what other items are involved in the design.
		By convention, the tincture Or is capitalized in SCA blazons.
		The tinctures are the colors azure, gules, purpure, sable, and vert and the metals argent and Or.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/coagloss.html (8470 words)

	Authentic Heraldry Made Simple
		The heraldry of today is not the same as the heraldry of the thirteenth century, and the heraldry of thirteenth century England was not the same as the heraldry of fifteenth century Portugal.
		Heraldry was created by nobles for nobles, probably as an adjunct to the tournament, which also evolved in the 12th and 13th centuries.
		The closest that medieval heraldry came to merit badge heraldry was in canting arms, rebuses, burgher or guild heraldry (which could be self-conscious advertisements) or the rare and remarkable device that alluded to some act performed by a member of the family.
	www.adrianempire.org /heraldry/library/lothar/medievalheraldry.html (17354 words)

	rec.heraldry FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Always remember that the origins of heraldry are lost in antiquity, that many writers on heraldry have simply copied each other's mistakes, and that there is much disagreement among heralds.
		These tinctures are divided into two groups: gold and silver, which are called the metals, and all the others, which are called the colours.
		In mediaeval times heraldry was strictly regulated, and in England there was a Court of Chivalry to deal with heraldic jurisdiction.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/heraldry/faq (3547 words)

	What Color is Your Persona? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Now that was a part of medieval heraldry I hadn't thought of for a while, and after a little research, I had some information that might prove useful.
		In later period, modern, and SCA heraldry, the various tinctures are equal in honor and have no special meaning.
		In the later periods of heraldry, the 15th and 16th centuries --the period of history strongly influenced by the old mysticism and the new sciences-- your device was often emblazoned in accordance with your station.
	members.cox.net /houseargent/tincture.html (842 words)

	Mantling - TheBestLinks.com - Germany, Heraldry, Coat of Arms of Canada, Tincture (heraldry), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In heraldry, mantling is drapery depicted tied to the helmet above the shield.
		(See tincture (heraldry) for more on these tinctures.) The mantling is usually in the main colours of the shield, or else in the livery colours that symbolize the entity bearing the arms.
		More often, however, the outside of the mantling is shown semy of badges, though this is usually not mentioned in the official blazon.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Mantling.html (319 words)

	Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry - S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Seeded - Represented with seeds of a different tincture, such as the rose, lily, etc., when it is said to be seeded of that color.
		Soustenu - (soos'-ten-u) A chief apparently supported by a small part of the escutcheon beneath it of a different tincture from the chief itself, and reaching, as the chief does, from side to side; being, so to speak, a small part of the chief of another color, and supporting the real chief.
		Said of an ordinary when it has another charge of a different tincture laid over it.
	digiserve.com /heraldry/pimb_s.htm (1656 words)

	Tincture - MiddleWiki
		The term used to describe colors in a blazon used in heraldry.
		Tinctures come in three types: color, metal, and fur.
		When creating a device or badge, you must have good contrast between elements.
	www.midrealm.org /wiki/index.php/Tincture (96 words)

	Heraldry: Blazoning of Creatures
		Brooke-Little notes that this was once a synonym for rising but in modern heraldry volant is distingushed from rising by the bird's feet not being visible.
		When the wings are a major portion of the beast (such as when displayed) changing the tinctures of the wings can be a point of difference.
		Minor changes to a beast include the position of the head or the tail, tinctures of minor details such as eyes, claws.
	dragon_azure.tripod.com /UoA/AnimalBlazonry.html (2367 words)

	Tempus Peregrinator's Little Heraldry Book: Heraldic Tincture
		The tinctures are the colours and textures of the emblazon
		This is a fundamental "rule" of armory and heraldry: that metal shal not lie on metal, nor colour on colour.
		This convention seems to have been universally accepted from the earliest times and is clearly intended to facilitate the accurate identification of heral devices at a distance.
	www.theweebsite.com /heraldry/tincture.html (459 words)

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