This page will have a complete overview of the contents of the site, we are still working on this as a new resource, it is not complete yet.
Alphabetical quick list of our vector art image packages
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 | American Families |
| 1550 images, based on the book “Bolton’s American Armory”, (1st edition 1927), features the American Bald Eagle Head surmounting the shield which in turn is supported by torches, symbolizing the Statu ... |
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 | Bk.Pl. - Scotland |
| A Popular Collection Over 1180 Coats of Arms as officially recorded. These fabulous renditions include the special font, so you can change the spelling to suit. Enlarge these to poster size without lo ... |
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 | British Fleet |
| A Monster Collection. Over 3100 Coats of Arms. Complete name list provided as well as special font. Click on thumbnail to view color samples. The British Fleet is presented in the olde heraldic style. ... |
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 | Das Wappen - German |
| The Premier German Collection. 2000 German Coats of Arms. One of our nicest collections. Throughout the history of Heraldry, Germany controlled much of modern day Europe (at one time or another), and ... |
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 | Dutch Armorial v2 |
| 445 very attractive Dutch coats of arms from old Holland. Sourced from Rietstap's Armorial General, this collection comes with surname list and special font. Click on the thumbnail image to view some ... |
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 | England v.23 |
| A Monster Collection. Over 3100 coat of arms vector images for family names from England. Presented in a new style for 2023 with the same style being available for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each image includes the name on a scroll; we provide the font so that you can replace the name as needed for alternate spellings. |
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 | English Armorial |
| Over 2000 English Coats of Arms available in either WMF or CDR/AI formats. The Largest English coat of arms collection in vector format available anywhere. Click on the thumbnail image to view a nice ... |
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 | Families of Britain |
| Over 1750 of the most frequently occurring surnames, based on Census records. You will find surnames from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Click on the thumbnail to view. ... |
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 | France v.23 |
| New for 2023 - This Arms of France package features a new styling similar to our other 2023 packages. The Arms of France v.23 package includes over 1350 coat of arms for vector images for French families. |
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 | French Families |
| 1280 French Coats of Arms available in either WMF or CDR/AI formats. A Wonderful collection. Special font included so that you can change the spellings to suit. Click on the thumbnail image to view. A ... |
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 | G. CRESTS - IRELAND |
| If you design Coats of Arms from Ireland, you need this collection. When you need an Irish name or a Scottish or English name with an Irish branch, this collection provides you with over 1240 register ... |
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 | Germany v.23 |
| A massive collection of almost 4200 coat of arms vector images for German families. Presented in a new style for 2023 with a similar style being available for other countries, These German arms have their own distinctive shield shape. Each image includes the name on a scroll; we provide the font so that you can replace the name as needed for alternate spellings. |
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 | Gold Collection v.19 |
| Over 16,000 high quality vector images for designing Coats of Arms. Your choice of WMF or Adobe Illustrator compatible CorelDraw formats. Hand drawn for smooth outlines with sharp hatching. Everything you need to heraldry images. 100% Scalable Vector Art. Including 600 mantlings and mantling sets. Includes many bonus features like access to the Armorial Gold Blazon site featuring over 60,000 blazons, and our tartan site featuring over 500 downloadable high-resolution tartan images. |
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 | Heritage Craft Col. |
| 10 Collections in 1-Over 1,000 Images A fabulous collection that will sure to stimulate your creative juices. Featuring Book of Kells, Concert Lions, Alphabets, Saints, Birds of Prey, Gods and Goddess ... |
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 | House of Ireland |
| 240 Badges representing ancient Irish families, based on Edward MacLysaght's book, IRISH FAMILIES. Edward MacLysaght is the former Chief Herald of Ireland. Choice of file formats, and an alphabetical ... |
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 | Ireland v.23 |
| 1150 coat of arms vector images for family names from Ireland. Presented in a new style for 2023 with the same style being available for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each image includes the name on a scroll; we provide the font so that you can replace the name as needed for alternate spellings. |
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 | Ireland v3 |
| Over 1450 coats of arms of the most noteworthy Irish Families. If you have an Irish surname or an English or Scottish one, with an Irish branch, you'll likely find it here. Click on the thumbnail ima ... |
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 | Isles Collect. v.23 |
| New for 2023 – The Isles Collection 2023 features a new unified styling for 2023. This bundle the 2023 England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland packages offers significant savings. It Includes:• Over 3100 vector coat of arms images for family names from England. • Well over 1150 coat of arms vector images for family names from Scotland.• 750 coat of arms vector images for family names from Wales.• 1150 coat of arms vector images for family names from Ireland. |
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 | Italian Nobles |
| Over 900 Italian Coats of Arms available in either WMF or CDR/AI formats. A Fine collection featuring the most popular Italian surnames. The largest Italian collection available. Click on the thumbnai ... |
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 | Kingdom Denmark |
| A Unique collection from Denmark with coats of arms from Sweden and from Norway. 630 Authentic arms presented in choice of wmf or cdr vector formats. Originally the home of the Vikings, Norse seafarin ... |
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 | Knighthood Oders |
| An Exclusive Collection 105 historical symbols including badges, stars, grand crosses, and collars, representing historical Orders of Knighthood, with some dating back to the Crusades. This fabulous h ... |
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 | Patron Membership |
| Patrons Membership gets you access to the Members' Area features including research materials and search tools, plus exclusive patron bonus downloadable images not yet available in any of the other pa ... |
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 | Polish Armorial |
| "An Attractive Collection" Over 800 Polish coats of arms with your choice of WMF or CDR file formats. Click on the thumbnail image to view. The Poles were some of the earliest to adopt the art of her ... |
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 | Portuguese Heraldica |
| Over 675 Portuguese Coats of Arms available in either WMF or CDR formats. A very rare collection featuring the most popular Portuguese surnames with recorded arms. A well designed collection. Click on ... |
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 | Republic of Austria |
| 865 Authentic Coats of Arms Registered in Austria Settled in ancient times, the Central European land that is now Austria was occupied in pre-Roman times by various Celtic tribes. It is a very interes ... |
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 | Scotland v.23 |
| Well over 1150 coat of arms vector images for family names from Scotland. Presented in a new style for 2023 with the same style being available for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each image includes the name on a scroll; we provide the font so that you can replace the name as needed for alternate spellings. |
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 | Scottish Clan Badges |
| Includes free access to the Armorial Gold Tartan site featuring over 500 Scottish Tartans, plus a complete Clan and Sept list. 333 Scottish Clan Badges provided to you in full color. Includes many rar ... |
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 | Scottish Gentry |
| 1190 Scottish Coats of Arms--if you have a Scottish name, or an Irish or English name with a Scottish branch then you'll likely find it here. Your choice of WMF or CDR file formats. Complete name list ... |
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 | Spanish Heraldica |
| The world's largest Spanish collection Over 1580 Spanish Coats of Arms with many rare names and with the spellings as originally recorded. Special Font included so you can change spellings to suit. C ... |
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 | Swiss Family Shields |
| 880 Swiss Family Shields available in either WMF or CDR formats. The Swiss Confederation has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815. The Swiss ... |
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 | Wales v.23 |
| Over 750 coat of arms vector images for family names from Wales. Presented in a new style for 2023 with the same style being available for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each image includes the name on a scroll; we provide the font so that you can replace the name as needed for alternate spellings. |
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 | Welsh Armorial |
| Over 725 Welsh Coats of Arms. If you have a Welsh name or an English name with a Welsh branch, you will likely find it here. Researched using the famous Siddons Welsh resource. Click on the thumbnail ... |
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Heraldry Discord |
| Discussion of Heraldry and Questions/Answers
Join our public discord server. This is new so it may take some time to build a community, share the link with anyone you know that is intrested in heraldry. |
Free Heraldry Educational Resources
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Learning Centre |
| Our index of the educational resources to be found on this site. Much of the Learning center content will eventually also be listed here but many pages are missing from this page at the moment. |
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Achievements |
| The Parts of a Full Achievement of Arms with terms used in 10 European regions. |
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Heraldry History |
| A brief overview of the history of Heraldry's development and the essentials of heraldry. |
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How to Blazon |
| The Blazon is a written description of heraldic achievements. Understanding the methods of creating and reading a blazon is an essential heraldic skill. |
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The points of the Shield |
| Learn about the 'points' of the shield, essential when working solely from a blazon
(description) and not a drawing. |
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SCOTTISH TARTANS |
| Excerpt from The Highlanders of Scotland By William Forbes Skene Published 1837 on the history, styles and the antiquity of the tartan of the Scottish highlanders.
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Heraldry Research Resources
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Heraldry Terms Dictionary |
| An alphabetical list of heraldic terms with alternate spellings and explanation of their meaning in a heraldic context. |
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Family Motto List |
Over 9,000 family mottoes transcribed from our antiquarian sources.
Lookup mottoes associated with your family name or get ideas for creating your own motto. |
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Bibliography
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Citations for the books and other materials that we have used to research the images and other content for this site.
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Abbreviations Reference |
| Abbreviations and their meanings to help make sense of abbreviations found on this site, in heraldry reference books and old books in general. |
Some of the Bonus Resources Exclusively for Members
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The Book Of Family Crests
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A 2 volume set with over 20,000 blazons of family crests from the British Empire. Members have access to the text, page images
and illustrations.
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Blazon Search
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Members can search our database of heraldic blazons both by name and by the content of the blazon. Currently the database
has over 64,000 entries.
(Free academic access available*)
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Motto Search
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Members can search our database of Family Mottoes, both by name and by the content of the motto. Members and non-members
have access to motto lists arranged alphabetically by family name.
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Thumbnail Browser
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Members can browse thumbnails of their package contents and download included images. Images are arranged as they are found in the bulk package download to
make it easy to locate images on computes that don't show file thumbnails in the local file
browser.
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Image Search
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Search our entire on-line image library to see if we have a needed image and where to find it. For owned packages, this allows direct download of individual images in a variety of common file formats.
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Heraldry Translator
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Translation resources for translating French blazons to their equivalent English terms. For members there is an automated translator that will do the bulk of the grunt work of the translation automatically.
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New Heraldry Dictionary - Search
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Members get access to a search system that makes it quick and easy to find the meaning of heraldic terminology. The search pulls from our updated and expanded heraldry dictionary with more information and examples than our free dictionary.
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New Heraldry Dictionary - Index
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Index of our new dictionary of heraldry terms and their historically observed variations. Members get access to our updated and expanded heraldry dictionary with more information and examples than our free dictionary.
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Site Information
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Site Updates Log |
| Information about the site status, changes and additions. This is where you can check what's new and different, listed by date so that you can see if you have
missed anything since your last visit. |
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Site Status |
The most important information about the current site status.
Current or ongoing issues will appear on this page. |
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Spelling |
| Some background on the spelling and spelling errors found on this site. |
Technical and Graphics Editing Resources
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Inkscape Editing Tutorial 1 |
Our first Tutorial on using the free Inkscape editor.
This shows two of the most common types of edits that are needed for heraldic differencing, parting and patterning. |
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Inkscape Editing Tutorial 2 |
Removing unwanted parts of an image using the free Inkscape vector graphics editor.
This shows
basic shaping and path editing techniques. |
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Our Vector File Formats |
Information about the vector file formats that we offer for download
What is a WMF or CDR vector file?, find out here. |
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About Image Files |
Information about graphic files and formats.
Vector file formats, and bitmap formats what they are and why the different formats are used.
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Free sample requests |
How to request a free sample of our vector file formats.
Be confident that you will be able to work with our art, request a free sample. |