[SCA-BMDL] banner heraldry question

[Erin Childs]

I do not have the documentation at hand, but both rectangular and
pennant style are documentable, if I recall correctly, as well as many
others.  (Shield-shaped is really the most blatently non-period.)

A quick Google search led me to a few possibly useful sites:

http://merouda.com/asheraldry/as14.htm
     especially the link to this article
http://web.archive.org/web/20050207004328/http://donna.hrynkiw.net/flags/

http://www.greyniche.org/documents/heraldicDisplay.doc

I hope those can provide you with some useful tips.

-Ailis

On 7/9/08, Cara & Char <charb at mail.connecttime.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings!  Elss has graciously and skillfully offered to design 6 tall
> banner poles from which to fly 6 Baronial encampment banners (approx. 20 ft
> high, spaced at points along our camp road border).  Tonight after Barony
> meeting we were discussing how to put the Barony's arms upon them and I
> thought we should ask those in our Barony more experienced with shapes of
> banners depicted in period.  She had a proposed rectangular banner supported
> with a dowel above and below that would hang from the top of the pole.  I
> have admired triangular pennant-style banners, the kind that only fly out
> full length with wind, at various Pennsic and Gulf Wars camps.  Can anyone
> help us out with which styles we can document?
> Thank you!
> Ariella
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