[MR] Heraldic Term of the Day - Fess/Fesswise

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

>From _An Heraldic Alphabet_ by J.P. Brooke-Little:

 

"Fess - An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band drawn across the
centre of the shield"

 

"Fesswise - Lying in the direction of the fess"

 

(Also, "in fess", which means the charges so described are oriented on the
field horizontally.)

 

Visual examples!

Fess:      http://op.atlantia.sca.org/op_ind.php?atlantian_id=3711

Fesswise:            http://op.atlantia.sca.org/op_ind.php?atlantian_id=2080

In Fess:
http://op.atlantia.sca.org/op_ind.php?atlantian_id=2957

 

 

Rhiannon

 

Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill

Triton Principal Herald

House Corvus, Atlantia