Book Of Traceable Heraldic Art

Per Bend

Per Bend Bevilled (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division. May use any two tinctures, except if overlain by a charge in which case must not be sable and purpure or sable and azure. Use with charges would be a Step From Core Practice (SFCP).

This form of bevil is found in Legh's Accidence of Armory, 1586 and is figure “C” in the 1992-08 LoAR cover letter, “The Bevil Made Me Do It.”

Per Bend Bevilled (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division. May use any two tinctures, except if overlain by a charge in which case must not be sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Use with charges would be a Step From Core Practice (SFCP).

This style of bevil is shown as figure “D” and described as acceptable in the 1992-08 LoAR cover letter, “The Bevil Made Me Do It.”

Per Bend Crusilly Counter-Crusilly §

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Source: Wernigerode Armorial. Artist unknown. (Page 516.)

Per Bend Dovetailed (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Embattled (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Embattled (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Armorial de Gelre. Artist: Claes Heinenzoon. (Page 198.)

Per Bend Engrailed §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Indented (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Indented (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Per Bend Indented (3) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Ehrenspiegel des Hauses Österreich. Artist unknown. (Page 568.)

Per Bend Indented (4) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Nebuly (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson.

Per Bend Nebuly (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Scheibler Armorial. Artist: Unknown. (Arms of von Wolckhenstain.)

Per Bend Nebuly (3) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Bruderschaft. Artist: Vigil Raber.

Per Bend Nebuly (4) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Neustifter Wappenbuch. Artist: Vigil Raber. (Page 39.)

Per Bend Nebuly (5) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Per Bend Nebuly (6) §

Device
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Equal field division.

Source: Insignia Equitum Gallici Ordinis Sancti Michaelis. Artist unknown. (Folio 18r.)

Per Bend Raguly (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Raguly (3) §

Device
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Equal field division.

Source: BnF MS Allemand 304. Artist unknown. (Page 750.)

Per Bend Rayonny (1) §

Device
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Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Potenty §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson.

Per Bend Wavy (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Urdy (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson.

Per Bend Urdy (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Source: Insignia Pontificum Romanorum et Cardinalium I. Artist unknown. (Folio 120r.)

Per Bend Sinister Bevilled (1) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division. May use any two tinctures, except if overlain by a charge in which case must not be sable and purpure or sable and azure. Use with charges would be a Step From Core Practice (SFCP).

This form of bevil is found in Legh's Accidence of Armory,

1586 and is figure “C” in the 1992-08 LoAR cover letter.

Per Bend Sinister Bevilled (2) §

Device
Badge

Equal field division. May use any two tinctures, except if overlain by a charge in which case must not be sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Use with charges would be a Step From Core Practice (SFCP).

This style of bevil is shown as figure “D” and described as acceptable in the 1992-08 LoAR cover letter.

Per Bend Sinister Dovetailed §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Sinister Embattled §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Sinister Indented §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Sinister Rompu §

Device
Badge

Equal field division. May use any two tinctures, except if overlain by a charge in which case must not be sable and purpure or sable and azure. The only example I've found of this design is in the arms of Aleyn / Allen; if it is indeed the only such instance, it may not be registrable today. Use with charges would be a Step From Core Practice (SFCP).

Source: Insignia Anglica. Artist unknown. (Arms of Aleyn, folio 33r.)

Per Bend Sinister Wavy §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

May use any two tinctures, except sable and purpure or sable and azure.

Per Bend Sinister a Cross Issuant §

Device
Badge

Equal field division.

Source: Tiroler Handschrift. Artist unknown. (Folio 49r.)

Per Pale Per Bend and Per Bend §

Device
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Composite field division. May use any tinctures.

Source: Des Kaiserlichen Kammergerichts zu Speier Kammerrichter. Artist unknown. (Folio 31r.)

Bendy and Per Bend Indented §

Device
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Equal field division.

Must use two contrasting tinctures.

Per Bend And A Chief §

Device
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Peripheral ordinary and field division.

When a chief is combined with a field division, the field is divided as if the chief removed space from the field.

Per Bend A Pile Issuant from the Line §

Device
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Field division and central ordinary.

Source: St. Gallen Armorial. Artist unknown. (Page 206.)

Per Bend Three Flowers Issuant From The Line §

Device
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Source: Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Bruderschaft. Artist: Vigil Raber. (Folio 27r.)

Per Bend Two Linden Leaves Issuant From The Line (1) §

Device
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A hardwood tree found throughout much of Europe, also called the Lime or Basswood tree.

Source: A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign. Artist unknown.

Per Bend Two Linden Leaves Issuant From The Line (2) §

Device
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A hardwood tree found throughout much of Europe, also called the Lime or Basswood tree.

Artist: Aine ingen Gilla Crist. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Per Bend Sinister Bear's Heads Issuant From The Line §

Device
Badge

A field divided bendwise sinister to form two interlocking bear’s heads.

Source: Heraldik-Wiki. Artist: Madboy74. License: Public domain. Adapted from a woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder of his arms, 1516.