Net (Accepted)

Herring net (Accepted)

A net is an openwork pattern of cords, loosely woven and knotted, and used to catch fish and game.  In medieval heraldry, “net” is also a canting term for a fret, or a fretty field.  In Society heraldry, the typical net seems to be a fisherman’s net, as in the illustration.

There is also a Society example of a “herring net”, mounted on a long handle; the illustration is based on a woodcut in Olaus Magnus’ History of the Nordic People, 1555.  Though both of these nets are period artifacts, we’ve no examples of either as a charge in period armory.  See also spiderweb.

The Order of the Golden Seine, of the Barony of Illiton, bears:  Azure, a rectangular net Or, in its dexter chief corner a plate.

Kwellend-Njal Kolskeggsson bears as a badge:  A net Or.

Ailikn Olafsdottir bears:  Vert, a hare rampant maintaining a herring net and a chief wavy argent.