Niddy-noddy

Niddy-noddy (Period)

Niddy-noddy (Period)

A niddy-noddy is a handheld reel for gathering skeins of yarn.  Though the term isn’t period, the charge certainly is, found in the arms of von Stratzberg, mid-16th C. [NW 57].  The Society uses the modern term in blazon for clarity’s sake.  The niddy-noddy is palewise by default.

Astridr Selr Leifsdóttir bears as a badge:  A niddy-noddy Or wound with yarn azure.

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