A weaver’s slea (also spelled “slay”) is a frame strung with parallel wires, used on a loom to keep the warp threads separate; modern weavers call it the “reed”.  The weaver’s slea is found in mundane heraldry, in the arms of the Weaver’s Company of Exeter [Parker 613], but has not yet been found in period heraldry.  The weaver’s slea is fesswise by default; its “proper” tincture is brown with black wires.

Emelyn Gunnarsdóttir bears:  Azure, six bees in annulo tails inward proper, on a chief embattled Or a weaver’s slea proper.

Medb ingen Dúngaile bears:  Azure fretty argent, a weaver’s slea and a bordure Or.

A sieve is a shallow round frame with a perforated bottom, used by millers to separate chaff, sand, insect bodies, &c, from the flour. The sieve is a period charge, found in the canting arms (Italian crivello) of di Crivellis, mid-15th Century [Triv 91], and again in the arms of Chrinelli, c.1550 [BSB Cod.Icon 272:211].

The sieve is depicted in slight trian aspect, with the top edge tilted away from the viewer.

Anne Cooke bears: Per pale sable and Or, a sieve counterchanged.

A saltcellar is a decorative vessel, made of glass or metal, used on the table for holding salt.  In period, it was blazoned a “covered salte”, and was depicted with the salt spilling from either side, to help distinguish it from a cup; such “shedding salt”, even though part of the charge’s definition, was nonetheless explicitly blazoned.  The illustration shows a covered saltcellar shedding salt, taken from the arms of the Worshipful Company of Salters, 1530 [Bromley & Child 214].

Isobel of Werchesope bears:  Gules, a covered saltcellar Or shedding salt argent.

Mordecai Salzer bears:  Per bend azure and argent, a covered saltcellar, the salt shedding on both sides, and a menorah counterchanged.

Yseulte Trevelyn bears as a badge:  A saltcellar shedding salt argent.

The Roman dining couch, or lectus, was a piece of furniture used in ancient Rome:  diners would recline on the couches for meals in the triclinium, the dining room designed for that purpose.  The practice was revived in Renaissance Italy:  Paolo Farinato’s “Christ and two Apostles”, late-16^th C., shows the subjects eating while reclining on these couches.

As an heraldic charge, the Roman dining couch appears to be unique to Society armory.  Its raised back (the “head”) is to dexter by Society default.  See also cradle.

Gaius Curtius Primus bears:  Per bend sinister argent and sable, a maple leaf inverted sable and a Roman dining couch reversed Or.

Hannah the Storyteller bears as a badge:  Atop a Roman dining couch Or cushioned ermine, a bunch of grapes bendwise gules slipped and leaved vert.

A quill of yarn is a cover for a spindle, onto which thread or yarn is wound; it can then be easily removed for use.  Mundanely, it’s also known as an “embroiderer’s quill”.  The blazon should include reference to yarn or embroidery, to help distinguish it from a “quill pen”.

The quill of yarn is a period charge, dating to 1558 in the arms of the Worshipful Company of Broderers [Bromley & Child 31].  It’s palewise, and wound with yarn, by default.  There are instances in mundane armory of empty quills, without yarn, such as the arms of von Haren, 1605 [Siebmacher 147], but the fact is always blazoned.

The “spindle” itself is also found, the winding piece of a spinning wheel.  It’s drawn as a slender cone wound with thread or yarn; it’s found in the arms of Hobby, 1610 [Guillim1 204], where it’s blazoned as a “fusile upon a slipper”.

For related charges, see drop-spindle, lace bobbin, spool of thread.  See also distaff, shuttle (weaver’s).

Katharina die Schneiderin bears:  Vert, a bend wavy between two quills of yarn Or.

Molda ókristna Starradottír bears:  Vert, three yarn quills argent threaded Or.

Maud verch Howell bears as a badge:  Per bend sinister sable and argent, on a bend counterchanged, two spindles palewise gules and Or.

A pretzel is a twisted bun or pastry, made from a long rope of dough, tied into a knot and baked.  Though most strongly identified with Germany, pretzels were eaten in several countries of period Europe.  The pretzel is a period charge:  the illustration is taken from the arms of the Bakers Guild of Augsburg, in the 16^th Century [Volborth 184].

Society heraldry defines a “pretzel proper” as brown.  The pretzel does not seem to have a default orientation:  examples are found with the ends to chief and to base, with no difference counted.  For related charges, see breadloaf, knot.

Lynette the Lost bears:  Argent, three lozenges in bend azure, each charged with a pretzel Or.

Edmund Lambert of Tregelles bears:  Vert, a pretzel Or.

Callistus Gill bears:  Or, three pretzels proper and a bordure wavy vert.

A pot is a round vessel, usually of metal, intended to hold food.  In medieval armory, the default form of pot is two-handled and three-legged; it is more fully called a “fleshpot” or (in the Randall Holme roll, c.1460) a “posnet”.  This form is found as early as c.1370, in the arms of von Spanheim [Gelre 44].

Another common form of pot was the “cauldron”:  more spherical in shape, with a bail handle, which may be called its defining trait.  The cauldron is hung over the fire by its handle to cook food; it’s sometimes called a “cooking pot” for that reason.  The cauldron is a period charge, found as early as c.1340 in the arms of Diessenhofen [Zurich 153].  In Society armory, it is sometimes drawn with a fire beneath it, or hanging from a tripod:  the arms of Larrea, mid-16^th C., show a cauldron so suspended [Armeria 358].

There is also the “spouted pot”, called a pot à verser in French, used for storing and pouring liquid.  It’s found in the canting arms (German Weinkanne) of Schilling von Cannstatt, c.1450 [Scheibler 131; also Siebmacher 112].  The default form is with a single spout, facing dexter; two-spouted pots are also found, in the arms of von Stedenberg or Stettenberger, c.1450 [Ingeram 158, 269; also Siebmacher 104].  (The same French term, pot à verser, is also used for a slightly different pouring vessel, made of earthenware rather than metal.  This variant, blazoned in German as a Weinkrug, is found in the arms of von Prackbach, 1605 [Siebmacher 93].)

Of the various pots unique to Society armory, we find the “three-legged pot”, like the cauldron but three-footed and without a handle; the “pipkin”, a ceramic cooking vessel with three feet and a long handle, dating to the 15^th Century; and the “kettle”, a metal cookery pot, not spherical like the cauldron, but wider than it is deep, with a lifting handle on both sides.  No difference is granted the various types of cookery pots.

There is also the “clay pot”, not metal but pottery:  a flat-bottomed, wide-mouthed crock (much like a modern flower-pot).

For related charges, see amphora, caldera gringolada, frying pan, ink bottle (ink pot), pitcher, vase (urn).  See also cat (in its curiosity).

Aubrey Ericsdatter bears:  Sable, three cauldrons Or.

Agnes Berengarii de Gerona bears:  Vert, five cauldrons in saltire Or.

Brekke Franksdottir bears:  Sable, a cooking pot hanging from a tripod above a base in flame argent.

Roberto Valason bears:  Argent, a peacock in its pride azure gorged of a pearled coronet argent between two barrulets between two spouted pots reversed vert.

William Taylor the Pure bears:  Per pale purpure and vert, a bear’s leg palewise issuant from base Or, maintaining a clay pot argent.

Claire le Potter bears:  Per bend sinister gules and azure, a kettle argent and a bordure Or.

Dametta of Arundel bears:  Per pale purpure and sable, a gryphon segreant maintaining a chalice, on a chief argent three posnets per pale purpure and sable.

Parlane of Glenord bears:  Pean, on a three-legged pot argent two dolphins haurient respectant sable.

Mons von Goarshausen bears as a badge:  Issuant from a pipkin sable a flame gules.