Showing posts with label crest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crest. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Extant crests

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/KHM_Wien_B_74_-_Great_helm_of_Albert_von_Prankh%2C_14th_century%2C_front.jpg Her...

Winged helm crest: Part 2

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I spent this evening drawing up copies of the depictions of wings on crests from 1410 to the 1480s. A quick tally of the images I have colle...
Monday, 11 November 2013

Winged helm crest: Part 1

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For this heraldic display, I will be using green and blue, since they are the colours on my SCA registered device. I will highlight with bro...

Crests 1370s: Part 2

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http://lalanguedublason.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/armoriaux-anciens.html A beautiful collection of 14th century crests and heraldic shi...

Hyghalmen Roll

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hyghalmen_Roll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyghalmen_Roll 1447-1455 http://commons.wikimedi...

Crests in the Codex Manesse

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Images from the Manesse Codex are among the most well known of the period. Luckily, these illuminations show several helms. These images com...

Extant crest fibres

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I have found the magic gold nugget of the internet! A fibre from a thread that held a helm crest on! http://www.unc.edu/~dchaggis/2007%...

Extant Crest: The Black Prince

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When Edward III died in 1376, several items of heraldic display were arranged adorning his tomb. Among them, is a crest. It is a leather for...

Crests in Saint Georges chapel

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This chapel has a long history, and many kinds of heraldic display. The website states that some of the stall plates below are from as earl...
Sunday, 10 November 2013

What a crest can tell us about its original owner

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I have stumbled across this webpage which seeks to explore and educate people on the history of supposed 'mono-ethnic' societies. Th...

Spanish heraldic blog

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http://heraldistas.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/libro-de-la-cofradia-de-los-caballeros.html Wow. This blog is written by a Spanish man, Fernand...

Helm crests in stock photos

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Who would ever have thought a stock photo webpage would have images we could use for this project! In future, I would seriously consider goi...

Extant crests on Flickr

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http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F98015679%40N04%2Fsets%2F72157634696214366%2F&h=wAQFunah3 This g...
Monday, 30 September 2013

Leather helm crest: Part 6 Preparing gesso sottile

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About a week ago, I started to saturate some plaster of Paris to make gesso sottile. This is the second layer of gesso that Cennino Cenni...
Friday, 27 September 2013

Leather helm crest: Part 5 Cennini's sand

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To attempt Cennini's leather forming method , I have filled the stitched leather structure with wet sand. In the section marked 'C...