Treatments

Treatments are patterns of repeated shapes that are typically applied to the field but can also be applied to the larger ordinaries or divisions. DrawShield supports the following two colour treatments:

annuletty, billetty, checky, checky-of-9, compony, counter-billetty, crusily, ermined, estoilly, fretty, goutty, grillage, honeycombed, lozengy, maily, masoned, mulletty, papelonny, plumetty, potenty, scaly, seme-de-lys, vairy

There are two ways to specify the colours to use in the treatment, for example the following are equivalent:

• azure checky or
• checky azure and or

Unfortunately where treatments themselves appear in a list of tinctures (for example the tinctures of a division) this becomes ambiguous - what does the following mean: per pale gules checky azure and or? There are two possible interpretations and the program cannot tell them apart. To avoid confusion use a semicolon to seperate the two items in the list, so per pale gules; checky azure and or makes it clear that the first half of pale is red and the second half is blue and gold.

By default, mulletty has the field strewn with five pointed stars. Alternatively you may use mulletty of n points; where n can be 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 and the word "points" is optional.

The following treatments with fixed colour roundels are also supported:

bezanty, hurty, platy

Seme Fields

It is also possible to create your own treatments by defining a field "strewn" with charges, for exammple argent seme de bees or, a white field scattered with yellow bees.