Bordure

Peripheral ordinary. The thickness of the stripe can be as thin as a twelfth of the width of the device, or as wide as a sixth if charged or if drawn with a complex line. This is a full- size bordure suitable for bearing charges.

Peripheral ordinary. The thickness of the stripe can be as thin as a twelfth of the width of the device, or as wide as a sixth if charged or if drawn with a complex line. This is a medium-size bordure.

Peripheral ordinary. The thickness of the stripe can be as thin as a twelfth of the width of the device, or as wide as a sixth if charged or drawn with a complex line.

This is a thin bordure.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating stripes of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Artist: Niccolo da Palermo.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary.

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

Peripheral ordinary.

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

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into alternating squares of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. A bordure of “teeth,” found in Iberian heraldry.

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

Peripheral ordinary. A bordure of “teeth,” found in Iberian heraldry.

Source: Armas de los Condes. Artist unknown. (Arms of Vesconte de Cabrera.)

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

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

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

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

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into eight equally-sized segments of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into four equally-sized segments of contrasting tinctures.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures.

The inner tincture is blazoned first, “a bordure parted bordurewise, tincture and tincure.”

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures, divided by a complex line.

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

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures, divided by a complex line. The inner tincture is blazoned first, “a bordure parted bordurewise indented, tincture and tincure.”

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures, divided by a complex line.

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

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures, divided by a complex line. The inner tincture is blazoned first, “a bordure parted bordurewise wavy, tincture and tincure.”

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson.

Peripheral ordinary. This bordure is separated into two equally-sized bands of contrasting tinctures, divided by a complex line.

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

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Peripheral ordinary.

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

Peripheral ordinary. A bordure semy has a ring of whole charges evenly distributed around it.

This version uses roundels but you can replace them with any simple charge.

Peripheral ordinary. A bordure semy has a ring of whole charges evenly distributed around it.

This version uses roundels but you can replace them with any simple charge.

Peripheral ordinary. A bordure semy has a ring of whole charges evenly distributed around it.

This version uses roundels but you can replace them with any simple charge.

Peripheral ordinary. Bordures semy of two alternating charges are attested but extremely rare in period.

Peripheral ordinary.

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinary.

Peripheral ordinaries.

When a chief and a bordure were combined in period, the chief occasionally appears above an attenuated field surrounded by the bordure, as shown here.

Peripheral ordinaries.

When a chief and a bordure were combined in period, the chief typically overlay the bordure, as shown here.

Peripheral ordinaries.

Peripheral ordinaries.

Counterchanging a bordure over a chief is a Step From Period

Practice (SFPP).

Peripheral ordinaries.

Artist: Vémundr Syvursson. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.