Lozengy

The sentence of William St John Hope that gives checky goes on: “when divided into what are now called lozenges it became lozengy.” Each lozenge here has four equal sides and stands on a point, and the field is argent and vert. Hope gives no rule for drawing it, so the construction here is our own, and it is exact. A chain of circles of one opening steps along the top edge. Neighbouring circles cross below the edge, and from every pin a line runs through the crossing on either side: these lines fall at sixty degrees, and the two families cross in lozenges one opening wide, each made of two equilateral triangles laid base to base. The shield is set on the same net. The feet of its sides are crossings of the lines straight below the top corners, so each side is drawn between two points already found, and the flanks, swung at the width from the opposite feet, meet on a crossing of the net as well.