Sable (tincture)
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In heraldry, sable is the tincture equivalent to black. It is one of the five dark tinctures called colours.
Black sable skins
Tricking of the arms of Giovanni d'Aragona; the sable quarter is coloured solid black instead of being tricked as s. or sa.
Hatching (heraldry)
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Hatching is a conventional system for monochrome denotation of heraldic armory, whereby the tinctures are represented by dots and lines. This technique is employed in cases where colours, for either a
The original of the armorial chart of Jan Baptist Zangrius from the Helmond archive (1600)
Hatching table of Zangrius (1600)
Hatching table of Charles Segoing (1660 edition)
Hatching table of Filippo Bonanni, 1711