What Makes Fable Fable
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Heraldry & Monograms
Read the language of crests, coats of arms and monograms. Explore their symbols and histories, and the ways personal marks live on in stationery, gifts and everyday objects.
Client gifts with your firm’s crest that people keep
Client gift ideas that do not end up in the bin: playing cards, a hardcover notebook and a woven cushion, each carrying your firm’s crest or monogram.
Business Christmas cards with your firm’s crest
The Christmas card is the most seen thing a firm sends all year. How to make one with your own crest or monogram, what to write and when to send.
Custom playing cards with your crest or your firm’s mark
A deck of cards with your own arms or monogram on every back: as a Christmas gift for a family, a thank-you for clients or a game for the first night in a new house.
Reading a coat of arms: lions, stars and trees
Learn to look at a heraldic design before choosing symbols for your own: the shield, its charges, the crest and the story around them.
10 Historic Crest Designs to Inspire a Personal Coat of Arms
Explore ten historical heraldic designs, from swans and rose trees to dragons, with source plates and a path to your own emblem.
Monogrammed stationery for your own letters
Personal monogrammed stationery: letter sheets, correspondence cards, bookplates and gift tags, and how to make a set with your own initials.
Irish and Scottish family crests: tradition and a design of your own
How heraldry works in Ireland and Scotland, what a clan crest badge is, and how to have a new decorative crest that honours an Irish or Scottish story.
Is there a coat of arms for my surname?
Why a coat of arms belongs to a person rather than a surname, what the mugs and plaques get wrong, and how to have a design of your own instead.