Tool, Textile

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Illustrations:

Period source:

Spindle, flax hackle:

Virgil Raber Wappenbuch, 1548, p119, drop spindle	BSB 392d, Wappenbuch Suddeutschland, 1500-1550, canting arms of von Hachlinge, a flax hackle, image courtesy of Bruce Draconarius.

Havettes:

Arms of Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, from 1530, which kept the havettes (the charges in chief) of the 1510 arms of the Worshipful Company of Shearmen, after the Shearmen and the Fullers combined to form the new company. Image courtesy of Bruce Draconarius	15th Century Nuremburg manuscript showing havettes in use by a shearman, image courtesy of Jeanne de Robin

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

• Broach, embroiderer’s
• Distaff
• Drop-spindle
• Gridiron (heddle?)
• Hempbreak
• Lace bobbin
• Loom
• Loom weight
• Lucet
• Niddy-noddy
• Quill of yarn; Spindle
• Shuttle, weaver’s
• Slea, weaver’s
• Spinning wheel
• Spool of thread
• Tablet, weaver’s
• Thimble

Image
Drop Spindle

Vector Graphics:

• Book of Traceable Heraldic Art
• Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project

See also: Category:Tools

Parker's Heraldry:

Angles: this bearing seems intended to represent the hook or fastening of a waistband (the arms of Wastley being allusive), and for this purpose the rings are attached; possibly for the same purpose, namely, that it might serve as a dress fastening, rings were attached to the Cross annuletty. This charge might be described also as two chevrons interlaced and couped. > Azure, three pairs of Angles interlaced fesswise; at each end an annulet azure–WASTLEY. https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

October 2013 - No More Modern Drop Spindles:

As for modern drop spindles, that charge with its wide whorl, triangular cop, and often a hook at the upper end was declared to be a step from period practice in November 2007. It will likewise no longer be allowed after the April 2014 decision meetings. Submitters should instead use a period drop spindle instead, which has a much smaller whorl, an ovoid cop, and no pronounced hook. An example can be seen in Virgil Raber's Wappenbuch, 1548 (found at http://bilderserver.at/wappenbuecher/VirgilRaberEXAv2_52z2/, page 118/119). [See above] http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2013/10/13-10cl.html

December 2010 LoAR - post-period drop spindle SFPP:

#39Clarice Alienor Aldinoch. Device. Vert, an empty drop spindle Or between two sewing needles in pile argent. The use of a post-period depiction of a drop spindle is a step from period practice. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2010/12/10-12lar.html (Image at http:''oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=14739)

Collected Precedents:

1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - TOOL The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - TOOL -- Textile

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In the Ordinary

• Spindle - see also Tool - Textile
• Tool - Sewing - see [[http:oanda.sca.org/ordinary/T.html#tooltextile Tool - Textile] and Needle
• Tool - Textile] - (includes embroiderer's broach, distaff, gridiron (!, one registration as of 3/2012), loom, quill of yarn, sewing tool, shuttle, sleas, spindle) see also Needle] and [Shear and Spindle]
• Tool - Weaving - see [Tool - Textile and Spindle