Editing Fret, Fretty, Fretted

==Modern:==  

===Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):===  

* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/fret/ Fret]

* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/fretty/ Fretty]

* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/grillage/ Grillage]

* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/net/ Net]

===Vector Graphics:===  

* I am forced to conclude that fretty is an artistic variant of the fret, and therefore a single charge. Partially, this is from the evidence of heraldic tracts: most of those I consulted did not (as the Argentaye Tract did) give a verbal description of fretty, but rather defined it by illustration --- and in so doing, drew no substantive distinction between what we would call "fretty" and "a fret". [[http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#53|Legh]], 1562, blazons both renderings as a frett; [http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#11 Bossewell], 1572, and [[http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#43 Guillim], 1610, follow Legh's lead on this. [http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#25 Bara]], 1581, does the reverse, blazoning as fretté what we would call "a fret".

Better evidence is found in the actual display of armory using fretty/a fret. Nearly every individual bearing arms with a fret on one roll may be found bearing the same arms fretty on another roll: e.g. John Maltravers, late 13th Century, who bore Sable fretty Or on the St. George's Roll and Sable, a fret Or on the Parliamentary Roll. The equivalence held true through Tudor times: the FitzWilliam Roll, c.1530, gives the arms of Theobald Verdon (Or, a fret gules) as Or fretty gules. The equivalence even held true in the presence of other charges on the field: e.g. the arms of Amery St. Armand were seen both as Or fretty and on a chief sable three bezants and Or, a fret and on a chief sable three bezants, and the arms of Despencer were seen both as Quarterly argent and gules fretty Or, a bendlet sable and Quarterly argent and gules, a bendlet sable between two frets Or. The latter example was, again, valid through Tudor times. (Sources: [[http:''heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#20|Dictionary of British Arms]], vol.I, pp.338-340; [[http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#51|Anglo-Norman Armory II]], pp.454-460; and see also the visual examples in Foster's [[http:''heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/references.html#37|Dictionary of Heraldry]], under the names of Maltravers, Harington/Haverington, and Belhuse/Bellewe.)

===January 2015 - four needles fretted===  

"When fretty has circles at the intersections of the fret overlaps, it is termed 'nailed', such as "Argent fretty sable nailed Or."

"Since commenters have found examples of the same device both nailed and not nailed in period, nailing...is not worth a CD."

"There is a CD for the changes to the tertiaries, but by prior Laurel precedent nothing for the change between a fret and fretty"

* The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - [http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/early/volume1.html Collected Precedents]