Pennsic Traceable Art Project

The Pennsic Traceable Art Project (circa 2005-2007) assembled what was for a long time the largest freely-redistributable collection of heraldic line art intended for use in SCA armorial submissions. It has since been incorporated into, and superceded by, the Book of Traceable Heraldic Art.

Some of the images in the Pennsic Traceable Art Project have been found to be problematic or even unregisterable. These are noted below.

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About the Pennsic Traceable Art Project

Introduction to the Third Edition

This project was begun as a response to the volume of heraldic art being sought every year at the consult table at Pennsic. Our heraldic artists were being worked overtime and then some, often on the same common charges.

The charges you'll find here are compiled mostly from their work. Many artists contributed, and this is not intended to replace any of them. But hopefully it will be a useful tool for those heralds unfortunate enough to not have a local heraldic artist or for consult tables where the submitters greatly outnumber the artists.

This is obviously not a comprehensive catalogue of charges, and it never will be. It is a reasonably large selection of many common charges, and it will continue to be updated with new charges (hopefully twice a year). And I look forward to any suggestions you have for how this project can be improved.

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• Abacus
• Acorn - page 1
• Acorn - page 2
• Alquerques Board Note: this image did not match documentation and returned per July 2009 LoAR)
• Amphora
• Anchor - page 1
• Anchor - page 2
• Annulet - page 1
• Annulet - page 2
• Annulet of Chain
• Anvil (1-horned)
• Anvil (2-horned)
• Apple (this version is a modern varietal and is therefore a SFPP)
• Arm
• Arm, vested (fesswise)
• Armadillo (rampant) - New World creature. so use is a SFPP
• Armillory Sphere
• Arrow
• Arrows, Sheaf of
• Astrolabe
• Axe - page 1
• Axe - page 2
• Axe, broad
• Axe, double-headed
• Axe, pole
• Axe, throwing

#B

• Badger's head (erased)
• Badger (rampant)
• Badger (statant)
• Balance, hanging - page 1
• Balance, hanging - page 2
• Balance, standing (no longer registerable as a charge after May 2013, Nov. 2012 LoAR)
• Bamboo
• Banner (flying)
• Barrel
• Bear's head (cabossed)
• Bear's head (erased)
• Bear (passant) - page 1
• Bear (passant) - page 2
• Bear (passant) - page 3
• Bear (passant) - page 4
• Bear (rampant) - page 1
• Bear (rampant) - page 2
• Bear (statant)
• Bee - page 1
• Bee - page 2
• Bell - page 1
• Bell - page 2
• Bell - page 3
• Bell, Vair (no longer registerable as a charge)
• Billhook
• Bird (volant)
• Bishop, chess
• Boar's head (couped)
• Boar's head (couped close)
• Boar's head (erased)
• Boar (passant) - page 1
• Boar (passant) - page 2
• Boar (rampant) - page 1
• Boar (rampant) - page 2
• Boar (rampant reguardant) - page 1
• Boar (rampant reguardant) - page 2
• Boar, winged (courant)
• Book (open)
• Bow or Longbow
• Branch, Ash
• Branch, Olive (fructed)
• Branch, Rose
• Bras-arme
• Bread, Loaf of
• Bridge
• Broad Arrow
• Brush
• Buckle
• Bull's head (cabossed)
• Bull (passant)
• Bull (passant guardant)
• Bull (rampant)
• Bull (rampant guardant)
• Bull (statant) - page 1
• Bull (statant) - page 2
• Butterchurn
• Butterfly

#C

• Caduceus
• Caltrop
• Camel (rampant)
• Camel, one-hump (statant)
• Cameleopard (rampant)
• Cameleopard, winged (segreant)
• Candelabra, seven-armed
• Candle
• Candlestick
• Canon
• Cap, Jester's
• Caravel - page 1
• Caravel - page 2
• Cardpique
• Carp (haurient embowed)
• Carrot
• Cart
• Castle of 2 towers
• Castle of 3 towers
• Cat's head - mountain (couped)
• Cat (couchant)
• Cat (couchant guardant)
• Cat (herissony)
• Cat (passant) - page 1
• Cat (passant) - page 2
• Cat (rampant) - page 1
• Cat (rampant) - page 2
• Cat (sejant) - page 1
• Cat (sejant) - page 2
• Catamount (passant)
• Catfish (embowed)
• Centaur (passant, blowing a horn)
• Chalice - page 1
• Chalice - page 2
• Chatloup (sejant)
• Chatloup, winged (sejant)
• Cherries (pair)
• Cinquefoil
• Club
• Cockatrice (erect)
• Columbine, slipped - page 1
• Columbine, slipped - page 2
• Comet
• Compass rose
• Cornucopia
• Crab
• Crampon
• Crane (in its vigilance)
• Crane (volant) - Note: The bird is not in a blazonable posture and therefore is not registrable.
• Crequier
• Crescent
• Crook, Shepherd's - page 1
• Crook, Shepherd's - page 2
• Crosier
• Cross, Bowen
• Cross, Celtic
• Cross, Celtic (equal-armed)
• Cross clechy
• Cross, Coptic
• Cross crosslet
• Cross crosslet fitchy
• Cross of ermine spots
• Cross flory
• Cross flory, Latin
• Cross formy
• Cross of Jerusalem
• Cross, key
• Cross, of four lozenges
• Cross, Maltese
• Cross moline - page 1
• Cross moline - page 2
• Cross patonce
• Cross potent
• Cross of Toulouse - page 1
• Cross of Toulouse - page 2
• Crossbow
• Cup - page 1
• Cup - page 2
• Cushion

#D

• Dagger
• Daisy
• Deer's head (cabossed)
• Deer's head (couped)
• Deer's head (erased)
• Deer's head (erased affronty)
• Deer's head, winged (erased)
• Deer - doe (couchant)
• Deer (lodged)
• Deer (passant)
• Deer (rampant) - page 1
• Deer (rampant) - page 2
• Deer (rampant) - page 3
• Deer (salient)
• Deer (statant or at gaze)
• Deer - doe (trippant)
• Deer, winged (segreant)
• Dextrochere
• Dice
• Die
• Dog's head - Talbot (erased)
• Dog (couchant)
• Dog (couchant guardant)
• Dog - Irish Wolfhound (courant)
• Dog - greyhound (courant)
• Dog - border collie (courant)
• Dog - talbot (passant) - page 1
• Dog - talbot (passant) - page 2
• Dog - talbot (passant) - page 3

• Dog - rottweiler (rampant) (From the 06/2008 LoAR:"There is sufficient evidence of mastiff-type dogs in the Rottweil region of Germany during our period that this depiction of a dog is registerable; however, the term Rottweiler for the breed of dog appears to be a significantly post-period development. Therefore the dog has been registered as a mastiff.")

• Dog - mastiff (statant)
• Dog - terrier (statant)
• Dog - greyhound (statant)
• Dog, winged - talbot (passant)
• Dog, winged (sejant)
• Dogwood - New World so use is a SFPP

• Dolphin - heraldic (haurient)
• Dolphin - heraldic (haurient embowed)
• Dolphin - heraldic (naiant by default)
• Dolphin - natural (haurient)
• Dolphin, winged - heraldic
• Domino
• Dove (displayed) - page 1 Note: Any bird displayed (that's not an eagle) is a SFPP
• Dove (displayed) - page 2 Note: Any bird displayed (that's not an eagle) is a SFPP

• Dove (volant) - page 1
• Dove (volant) - page 2
• Dragon's head (cabossed)
• Dragon's head (couped)
• Dragon's head (erased)
• Dragon (in annulo)
• Dragon (couchant)
• Dragon (displayed)
• Dragon (passant)
• Dragon (segreant) - page 1
• Dragon (segreant) - page 2
• Dragon (segreant) - page 3
• Dragon (sejant)
• Dragon (sejant, wings elevated)
• Dragon (volant bendwise). Note: "Dragons volant aren't registerable."
• Dragon, Oriental (in annulo) - page 1 Note: Oriental Dragons are a SFPP
• Dragon, Oriental (in annulo) - page 2 Note: Oriental Dragons are a SFPP
• Dragon, Oriental (passant) Note: Oriental Dragons are a SFPP
• Dragon, Oriental (passant bendwise) Note: "Not a blazonable posture; its most recent use was cause for return."
• Dragonfly
• Drakkar - page 1
• Drakkar - page 2
• Drakkar - page 3
• Drop spindle Note: Image depicts a modern from so is no longer registerable as of October 2013 CL
• Drum, dumbek
• Duck (naiant)

#E

• Eagle's jambe (erased)
• Eagle (displayed) - page 1
• Eagle (displayed) - page 2
• Eagle (displayed) - page 3
• Eagle (displayed) - page 4
• Eagle (rising)
• Eagle, two-headed (displayed) - page 1
• Eagle, two-headed (displayed) - page 2
• Eagle, two-headed (displayed) - page 3
• Elephant's head (couped close)
• Elephant (passant)
• Elephant (rampant)
• Elephant (statant, maintaining a tower)
• Elephant (statant, trumpeting)
• Enfield
• Ermine spot
• Escallop - page 1
• Escallop - page 2
• Escallop - page 3
• Escallop - page 4
• Estoile
• Eyeglasses

#F

• Falcon, belled and jessed (close)
• Falcon (close reguardant)
• Falcon (rising)
• Falcon (striking)
• Falcon on hand, hooded and jessed (close)
• Fan
• Fasre
• Feather
• Feather, peacock
• Fer-a-loup
• Ferret (passant reguardant)
• Ferret (sejant erect)
• Fireball
• Fish
• Flame
• Flamingo (close, one leg raised)
• Fleam
• Fleur-de-Lys - page 1
• Fleur-de-Lys - page 2
• Flute
• Footprint Note: Use is a SFPP just like pawprints.
• Forget-Me-Not
• Fox's mask (head cabossed)
• Fox (courant)
• Fox (passant)
• Fox (rampant)
• Fox (rampant reguardant)
• Fox (sejant guardant)
• Fox (statant)
• Foxglove, slipped
• Fret
• Frog (sejant)
• Frog (tergiant) - page 1
• Frog (tergiant) - page 2
• Furison

#G

• Garb
• Gate - page 1 - Note: This form of "gateway" has been disallowed.
• Gate - page 2
• Gillyflower
• Gillyflower, slipped and leaved
• Goat's head (couped)
• Goat (passant)
• Goat (rampant or climant)
• Goose, double-headed (displayed) Note: Any bird displayed (that's not an eagle) is a SFPP.
• Gorilla (statant)
• Gout - page 1
• Gout - page 2 Note: This style of modern gout is no longer registerable
• Griffin's head (erased)
• Griffin (couchant)
• Griffin (passant)
• Griffin (segreant) - page 1
• Griffin (segreant) - page 2
• Griffin (segreant) - page 3
• Griffin, male (segreant)

#H

• Hammer - page 1
• Hammer - page 2
• Hammer, cross pean
• Hammer, Stone and throwing
• Hammer, Thor's - page 1
• Hammer, Thor's - page 2
• Hammer, War
• Hand, dexter (apaumy by default) - page 1
• Hand, dexter (apaumy by default) - page 2
• Hand, dexter (apaumy by default) - page 3
• Hand, dexter (fist)
• Hand, dexter (gauntleted, clenched)
• Harp
• Hawk's talon (couped)
• Hawk (close)
• Hawk (close guardant)
• Heart - page 1
• Heart - page 2
• Helmet, Great
• Heron (close) - page 1
• Heron (close) - page 2
• Heron (rising) - page 1
• Heron (rising) - page 2
• Hops
• Horn, Drinking
• Horn, Hunting
• Horse's head (couped)
• Horse (courant)
• Horse (passant) - page 1
• Horse (passant) - page 2
• Horse (passant reguardant)
• Horse (rampant) - page 1
• Horse (rampant) - page 2
• Horse (rampant) - page 3
• Horse (rampant) - page 4
• Horse (rampant reguardant)
• Horse (salient)
• Horseshoe
• Hourglass - page 1
• Hourglass - page 2
• House
• Hummingbird (volant, wings addorsed) Note: New World bird so use is a SFPP

#I

• Ivy, Orle of
• Ivy, Vine of

#J

• Janus Head

#K

• Key
• Knife
• Knot, Bowen
• Knot, Lacy
• Knot, quatrefoil
• Knot, Stafford
• Knot, trefoil - page 1
• Knot, trefoil - page 2
• Knot, Wake
• Kraken Note: now officially called a calamarie or cuttlefish

#L

• Label
• Lace bobbin
• Lambda
• Lamp, Arabic
• Lantern
• Leaf
• Leaf, holly
• Leaf, ivy
• Leaf, maple - page 1
• Leaf, maple - page 2
• Leaf, oak
• Leaf, oak and fructed
• Letter "Y" batarde
• Lighthouse
• Lightning bolt Note: this version is a SFPP
• Lily - page 1
• Lily - page 2
• Lines of Division - page 1
• Lines of Division - page 2
• Lion's head (cabossed)
• Lion's head (couped)
• Lion's head (erased)
• Lion's head (jessant-de-lys)
• Lion (couchant)
• Lion (dormant)
• Lion (passant)
• Lion (passant guardant)
• Lion (rampant)
• Lion, qeue-forchy (rampant)
• Lion, tail-nowed (salient)
• Lion (sejant, dexter forepaw raised)
• Lion, winged (passant)
• Lion, winged (segreant)
• Lobster
• Lotus
• Lotus, affronty
• Lunel
• Lymphad (default) - page 1
• Lymphad (default) - page 2
• Lymphad (under sail)
• Lynx (rampant)
• Lyre - page 1
• Lyre - page 2

#M

• Mace, Spiked
• Maiden
• Mallet
• Martlet
• Mascle - page 1
• Mascle - page 2
• Mascle ployŽ
• Mask, comedy
• Maunche
• Melusine
• Menorah
• Merman
• Mermaid (in her modesty)
• Mistral
• Monkey (passant)
• Monkey (rampant)
• Monkey (statant)
• Monkey, winged (passant)
• Moon (in her plentitude)
• Moose (passant)
• Mortar and pestle
• Mouse (couchant)
• Mouse (rampant)
• Mouse (statant)
• Mullet (5 points by default)
• Mullet of 6 points
• Mullet of 7 points
• Mullet of 7 points (voided and interlaced)
• Mullet of 4 greater and 4 lesser points Note: this is a compass star and therefore a SFPP (unlike a compass rose)
• Mullet of 8 points
• Mullet of 9 points
• Musical note

#N

• Needle
• Needle (threaded)

#O

• Octopus Note: now officially called a polypus, also note that the arms shouldn't cross each other
• Opinicus (segreant)
• Owl (close guardant) - page 1
• Owl (close guardant) - page 2
• Owl (close guardant) - page 3
• Owl (close guardant) - page 4
• Owl (displayed) Note: Any bird displayed (that's not an eagle) is a SFPP

• Owl (striking)

#P

• Panther, continental (rampant)
• Panther, continental and winged (sejant)
• Panther, English (passant)
• Panther, English (rampant guardant)
• Panther, English (sejant)
• Panther, English (sejant guardant)
• Panther, English (statant)
• Panther - natural (rampant)
• Panther - natural (rampant guardant)
• Passion Nail
• Pavillion
• Pawprint, bear Note: use of pawprints is a SFPP
• Pawprint, non-clawed Note: use of pawprints is a SFPP
• Peacock (close) - page 1
• Peacock (close) - page 2
• Peacock (close) - page 3
• Peacock (in its pride)
• Pegasus (segreant) - page 1
• Pegasus (segreant) - page 2
• Penguin (close) Note: use is a SFPP
• Pheon - page 1
• Pheon - page 2
• Pheon - page 3
• Pheonix (rising from flame) - page 1
• Pheonix (rising from flame) - page 2
• Pineapple
• Pitcher
• Plow
• Pomegranate
• Pomegranate (slipped and leaved)
• Popinjay
• Poppy
• Portcullis
• Praying Mantis - page 1
• Praying Mantis - page 2

#Q

• Quatrefoil
• Quill pen

#R

• Rabbit's head (cabossed)
• Rabbit's head (erased)
• Rabbit or Coney (couchant)
• Rabbit or Coney (courant)
• Rabbit or Coney (rampant) - page 1
• Rabbit or Coney (rampant) - page 2
• Rabbit or Coney (salient)
• Rabbit or Coney (sejant)
• Rabbit or Coney (sejant, forepaw raised)
• Rabbit or Coney (sejant erect reguardant)
• Ram's head (cabossed) - page 1
• Ram's head (cabossed) - page 2
• Ram's head (erased)
• Rapier
• Rat (rampant)
• Raven (close) - page 1
• Raven (close) - page 2
• Raven (displayed) Note: Any bird displayed (that's not an eagle) is a SFPP

• Raven (migrant) Note that migrant is equivalent to displayed, so this is an SFPP
• Raven (volant) - page 1
• Raven (volant) - page 2
• Recorder
• Reremouse or Bat - page 1
• Reremouse or Bat - page 2
• Rooster (close)
• Rooster (crowing, wings elevated)
• Roundel
• Rose - heraldic
• Rose, slipped and leaved - heraldic - page 1
• Rose, slipped and leaved - heraldic - page 2
• Rose, slipped and leaved - garden - page 1
• Rose, slipped and leaved - garden - page 2
• Rose, slipped and leaved - garden - page 3
• Rudder
• Russian Firebird (rising) Note: a Russian Firebird is no longer registrable after July 2015.

#S

• Salamander - natural (tergiant)
• Scimitar
• Scissors (open)
• Scorpion
• Scroll (open)
• Seadragon (erect) - page 1
• Seadragon (erect) - page 2
• Seahorse - heraldic (erect) - page 1
• Seahorse - heraldic (erect) - page 2
• Seahorse - heraldic (erect) - page 3
• Seahorse - natural
• Sealion (erect) - page 1
• Sealion (erect) - page 2
• Sea serpent (undulent)
• Sea turtle - natural (tergiant)
• Seaunicorn (erect)
• Seawolf - erect
• Seeblatt
• Shears
• Shofar
• Simurge (close)
• Simurge (rising)
• Skull - page 1
• Skull - page 2
• Snail
• Snake (in annulo)
• Snake (nowed) - page 1
• Snake (nowed) - page 2
• Snake (glissant)
• Spade
• Spear
• Spearhead
• Spider - page 1
• Spider - page 2
• Spiderweb
• Sprig, Beech
• Sprig, Elder
• Sprig, Elderberry (slipped and fructed)
• Sprig, Holly
• Sprig, Oak (fructed) - page 1
• Sprig, Oak (fructed) - page 2
• Sprig, Rowan
• Sprig, Strawberry (fructed)
• Spoon
• Spur - page 1
• Spur - page 2
• Spur, winged - page 1
• Spur, winged - page 2
• Squirrel (sejant erect) - page 1
• Squirrel (sejant erect) - page 2
• Squirrel (statant)
• Strawberry - flower
• Strawberry - fruit
• Sun (in his splendor)
• Sun - page 1
• Sun - page 2
• Sunburst
• Swallow (volant)
• Swan (naiant)
• Swan (rousant)
• Swan (volant)
• Sword

#T

• Talon - page 1
• Talon - page 2
• Tankard - page 1
• Tankard - page 2
• Tankard - page 3
• Thimble
• Thistle, slipped and leaved - page 1
• Thistle, slipped and leaved - page 2
• Thread, Spool of
• Tongs, blacksmith's
• Torch
• Torque
• Tower - page 1
• Tower - page 2
• Tower - page 3
• Tree (couped)
• Tree (blasted)
• Tree (blasted and eradicated) - page 1
• Tree (blasted and eradicated) - page 2
• Tree (eradicated)
• Tree, oak and fructed (couped)
• Tree, oak and fructed (eradicated)
• Tree, orange and fructed (couped)
• Tree, pine (couped) - page 1
• Tree, pine (couped) - page 2
• Tree, willow (couped)
• Tree, yew (couped)
• Trees, Hurst of
• Trefoil (slipped by default)
• Triangle
• Triangle (voided)
• Trident
• Trillium, barbed and seeded
• Triquetra
• Triskelion
• Trumpet
• Tulip, slipped and leaved
• Turtle (tergiant)
• Tyger - heraldic (rampant)
• Tyger - heraldic (sejant)
• Tyger - heraldic (statant)

#U

• Unicorn's head (couped) - page 1
• Unicorn's head (couped) - page 2
• Unicorn's head (couped close)
• Unicorn's head (erased) - page 1
• Unicorn's head (erased) - page 2
• Unicorn (couchant)
• Unicorn (passant) - page 1
• Unicorn (passant) - page 2
• Unicorn (passant) - page 3
• Unicorn (rampant) - page 1
• Unicorn (rampant) - page 2
• Unicorn (rampant) - page 3
• Unicorn (salient)
• Unicorn, winged (segreant)
• Urchin, spikes impaling grapes (rampant)
• Urchin (statant)

#V

• Violet
• Vol - page 1
• Vol - page 2
• Vol - page 3
• Vol - page 4
• Vol - page 5

#W

• Wasp
• Water-bouget
• Weasel (passant)
• Weasel (rampant)
• Wheat, sheaf of
• Wheel
• Wheel, Catherine
• Wolf's head (cabossed)
• Wolf's head (couped)
• Wolf's head (couped and ululant) Note: ululant posture is a SFPP
• Wolf's head (erased) - page 1
• Wolf's head (erased) - page 2
• Wolf (couchant)
• Wolf (courant)
• Wolf (passant)
• Wolf (rampant) - page 1
• Wolf (rampant) - page 2
• Wolf (sejant, dexter forepaw raised)
• Wolf (statant)
• Wolf (ululant) Note: ululant posture is a SFPP, also needs to be specified as sejant.
• Wolf, winged (segreant)
• Wolf, winged (ululant) Note: ululant posture is a SFPP, also needs to be specified as sejant
• Woolpack
• Wreath
• Wreath, Laurel - page 1
• Wreath, Laurel - page 2
• Wreath of Thorns
• Wyvern (sejant)

#X

#Y

• Yale (rampant)
• Yarn, Balls of or Clews
• Yarn, Quill of

#Z

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Pennsic Traceable Art, edition 3.0 - Compiled and edited by Ailis Linne. © by Erin Childs, 2004-2009; all rights reserved. This work may be duplicated in whole or in part for SCA use provided copyright credit is given and no changes are made.