User:OliverGalvin/Luton/Coat of Arms
I don't know much about Heraldry but I'd like to try to make a free, good quality, vector replacement image for Luton's Coat of Arms, and hopefully learn a bit about heraldry as I go along.
The Original
[edit]The non-free image currently in use.
LTFC's logo is based on the same design.
Other images to reference from outside wikipedia:
![[3]](https://www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.org.uk/blog-2013-photos/130613-Stockwood-Park-Luton-70-long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.jpg){kind=link}
Element Sources
[edit]Here are some images containing elements that could be useful:
- Shield outline - closest shape I could find
- Arm - part of crest, holding bundle of straw
- Bundle of wheat/grain - looks similar to straw used in crest and top-left of escutcheon
- More straw
- Thistle - easy to find, Scottish origins
- A similar beehive
- A bee - used in the centre
- Torse - red and white, below the crest
- Ribbon
- White rose
- Golden rose - the rose stem
- Grass
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I'm missing a similar helmet, and the mantling around the edges.
Colours (tinctures)
[edit]- The outline of the shield is Or (gold)
- The field (background of shield) is divided into four parts by a white cross (quartered by a cross argent), gules (red) and azure (blue)
- There's a helmet on top of the shield, and then a blue-sleeved arm holding a bundle of straw as the crest
- The mantling is a mix of gules and argent
Motto
[edit]Scientiae et labori detur.
More information
[edit]See its history in the Luton Article.
See the terminology of the elements in the heraldry articles.