Helm Crests

An exploration of making functional crests and their use in the fifteenth century.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Crested Helm parade in Wappencodex zu München

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Back near the beginning of my SCA play, my family gave me a copy of the Fox-Davies Complete Guide to Heraldry. It is a big book with general...

French Blog about ancient heraldry

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http://lalanguedublason.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/armoriaux-anciens.html This blog came up in todays searching. It lists quite a few armoria...

Crests in 1420s: Part 2

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I hope to collect as many images as possible, so it is then clearer which styles were worn in which decade. There are so many images out th...

Crests in 1430s: part 2

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Here are some images from 1430-1439 showing a few different things people wore on their helms. http://manuscriptminiatures.com/48...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Crests in 1430s: Part 1

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For this collection of images, I have quite a few that are listed with a likely span of creation, rather than a firm date. I am going to c...

Crests in 1420s: Part 1

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http://manuscriptminiatures.com/ I love this site. It has a great search option and thousands of images. Here is a collection of images....

Two more artisans

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Hello all. Here are the blogs for the other 2 Royal Artisans. I hope you enjoy their work as much as I have.   http://kirielskitchen.bl...
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Heilwich Gheerts
Heilwich Gheerts lived in Ghent during the fifteenth century. She was born 1420 and died 1482. Osk Ornsdotir lived in Birka during the early 10th Century. She enjoys watching the people who come to her island home, but doesn't envy the time they have to spend on boats. Her modern counterpart has been playing SCA in the Kingdom of Lochac since 2001, and is enjoying her second and third lives.
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