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My New COA
Sir Wolf:
i dont think it would look like that on a surcoat. remember the rules of heraldry. isnt the top to become the right hand side and the bottom the left? i'm trying to remember. we had it in an earlier posting. it does look cool though.
Sir Edward:
You know, I have no idea. It would be a good thing to have all figured out before putting it to fabric!
EDIT: I had been under the assumption that it would either match the shield exactly, or otherwise if you're going with a two-color vertical split like mine, that you'd want to preserve which color is in dexter and which is in sinister. This makes my current surcoat backwards, since the white should be in dexter (the wearer's right).
Sir Brian:
Lol, most excellent Sir Edward and thank you that helps immensely but I believe Sir Wolf might be correct.
That was part of what is wrong with my original surcoat. - At most it should have been quartered.
For the new COA I believe the primary color and metal will suffice for the surcoat.
(Besides I could seriously hurt myself trying to sew those wavy stitch lines!) :D
So with my paltry attempt of blazonry I came up with this:
Vert, a gryphon or segreant. On a chief wavy argent, a rose sable.
Sir Wolf:
huzzah!
Sir Edward:
Most excellent. :) I did some quick googling, and I couldn't find anything specific about rules for translating it to the surcoat, except some mention that the surcoats sometimes had additional charges not in the heraldry.
So yeah, unless we can find better documentation, I'd stick with parti-colored (per-pale, like mine) or quarterly (per cross), and just preserve which colors/metals are in dexter and sinister.
So for me, I should switch the colors, and put the dragon and ankh over their correct colors. :)
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