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In Heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
, Diapering (from an old term for damask
Damask

Damask is a figured cloth of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Made with one warp and one weft in which, generally, warp-satin and weft sateen weaves interchange....
) is a technique in which those who draw achievements of arms
Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
 attempt to decorate large areas of flat colour by drawing crosshatches
Hatching

Hatching is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching....
 or arabesque
Arabesque

The arabesque is an elaborative application of repeating geometry forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals. Arabesques are an element of Islamic art usually found decorating the walls of mosques....
s. There is no standard, and each artist is allowed his own idiosyncrasies.

Diapering is not specified in the blazon
Blazon

In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image....
, so a shield
Shield

A shield is a protective device, meant to intercept attacks. The term often refers to a device that is held in the hand, as opposed to armour or a bullet proof vest....
 with diapering is considered the same as a shield of the same design but without diapering. For this reason, however, diapering must not be so obtrusive or so heavily drawn that it could be mistaken for a charge
Charge (heraldry)

In heraldry and vexillology, a charge is an image occupying the field on an Escutcheon . Charge can also be a verb; for example, if an escutcheon bears three Lion s, then it is said to be charged with three lions. It is important to distinguish between divisions of the field and charges, and to note that charges can themselves be c...
 or for a variation of the field
Variation of the field

In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple divisions of the field....
.

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Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 and other decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s, diapering or diaper decoration is a decorative treatment of a surface with a repeat pattern of squares or lozenge
Lozenge

A lozenge , colloquially known as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym for rhombus....
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In Heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
, Diapering (from an old term for damask
Damask

Damask is a figured cloth of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Made with one warp and one weft in which, generally, warp-satin and weft sateen weaves interchange....
) is a technique in which those who draw achievements of arms
Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
 attempt to decorate large areas of flat colour by drawing crosshatches
Hatching

Hatching is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching....
 or arabesque
Arabesque

The arabesque is an elaborative application of repeating geometry forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals. Arabesques are an element of Islamic art usually found decorating the walls of mosques....
s. There is no standard, and each artist is allowed his own idiosyncrasies.

Diapering is not specified in the blazon
Blazon

In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image....
, so a shield
Shield

A shield is a protective device, meant to intercept attacks. The term often refers to a device that is held in the hand, as opposed to armour or a bullet proof vest....
 with diapering is considered the same as a shield of the same design but without diapering. For this reason, however, diapering must not be so obtrusive or so heavily drawn that it could be mistaken for a charge
Charge (heraldry)

In heraldry and vexillology, a charge is an image occupying the field on an Escutcheon . Charge can also be a verb; for example, if an escutcheon bears three Lion s, then it is said to be charged with three lions. It is important to distinguish between divisions of the field and charges, and to note that charges can themselves be c...
 or for a variation of the field
Variation of the field

In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple divisions of the field....
.

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In Architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 and other decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s, diapering or diaper decoration is a decorative treatment of a surface with a repeat pattern of squares or lozenge
Lozenge

A lozenge , colloquially known as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym for rhombus....
s. A stone wall may be decorated with such a pattern carved in relief
Relief

A relief is a sculptured artwork where a modelled form is raised, or in sunken-relief lowered, from a flatish background plane without being disconnected from it....
; in brickwork
Brickwork

Brickwork masonry is produced when a bricklayer uses bricks and Mortar to build up structures such as walls, bridges and chimneys. Brickwork is also used to finish openings such as doors or windows in buildings made of other materials....
 the effect may be achieved by using bricks of two different colours, or by allowing certain bricks to protrude from the wall's surface to create a regular diamond-shaped pattern. In English flushwork
Flushwork

In architecture, flushwork is the decorative combination on the same flat plane of flint and ashlar stone. It is characteristic of the external walls of medieval buildings, most of the survivors being churches, in parts of Southern England, but especially East Anglia....
 limestone and dark knapped flint
Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary rock cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as Nodule s and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones....
 are used. windows
Architectural glass

Architectural glass is glass that is used as a building material. It is most typically used as transparent glazing in architecture material in the building envelope, including windows in the external walls....
 may be set in a diamond shaped lattice.