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Colour written in lines.
Also known as: Heraldic hatching
Sometimes confused with: Tricking
The engraver's convention representing heraldic colours by patterns of lines and dots in monochrome.
Represents the tinctures of a coat of arms in monochrome engraving by ruled line patterns.
Contexts: Technical drawing, History
Solved a real problem created by printing: arms could be engraved and reproduced but not coloured, so the colours had to become line patterns or be lost in every printed book of arms.
Contexts: Technical drawing, History
Distinguished from tricking, which writes an abbreviation of the colour's name in each field — the two conventions solve the same problem, one graphically and one alphabetically.
Contexts: Technical drawing, History
Fields filled with ruled lines at defined angles or with dots — vertical lines for one colour, horizontal for another, diagonal for a third, dots for a metal — engraved within the outline of the charge.