Design your own personal coat of arms. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits, and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs, and stationery or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges, and much more.

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Written By: Rosemary A. Chorzempa

From ancient standards and ancestral shields to modern coats of arms and the flags of emerging nations - learn the fascinating language and visual vocabulary of arms, banners and ensigns that knots together the diverse strands of our history and brings alive today the colours and textures of a rich cultural heritage shared and revered by all the nations of the world.

Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
Written By: Stephen Slater

Manufacturer: Book Sales
Written By: Alexander Fulton

June 14 is Flag Day, but with so many American flags proudly displayed, every day seems like Flag Day. Perfect for reading together with a young child, F Is for Flag shows in simple terms how one flag can mean many things: a symbol of unity, a sign of welcome, and a reminder that-in good times and in bad-everyone in our country is part of one great big family. Illustrated by ...

Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
Written By: Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms — everything from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations. "The 4,260 marvelous heraldic emblems...are delicate, interesting, and perfect." — Lady's Circle Needlework.

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Written By: Matsuya Company

The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'. These military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's storm troopers in the savage conflict with ...

Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Written By: Desmond Seward

A rich assortment of versatile motifs, this collection allows designers to endow any graphic project with an aristocratic air. The 438 images, available in a lavish range of styles and sizes, include coats of arms emblazoned with stars, chevrons, florals and foliates, birds, animals, mythical creatures, and scores of other devices.

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Written By: Dover

The setting is England, 1250. It is an intriguing and superstitious world of magic spells, brave knights, and magnificent castles. But, for many, life is very difficult. Through a simple question-and-answer format, this book explores many fascinating aspects of the Middle Ages, Readers will learn what people ate, how they dressed, and even visit a castle guarded by knights!

Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
Written By: Ann Mcgovern

An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. * Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. * Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to ...

Manufacturer: Destiny Books
Written By: James Wasserman

This is a comprehensive discussion of the flags that represent the southern nation between 1861 and 1865, various Confederate State Flags, as well as the blood stained banners that led the armies of the men in grey. The narrative is enhanced by numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. This volume will appeal to the serious student as well as the general reader.

Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
Written By: Devereaux D., Jr. Cannon