Walburga Wappenrock: Designer Notes

Walburga is the odd one out of the three patterns, because it still is “historically inspired”, but does not actually follow any real historical garment. It is based on tabards (“Wappenrock” in German, hence the name starting with a W), handwavingly placed in a western European middle ages setting. To be honest, it is inspired more by the Legend of Zelda than anything real.

I created this pattern because I needed something for my TTRPG character, basically a fantasy Roman, to display his heraldics on, and since I could not find anything in the literature about Romans doing this in a reliably documented way, I went the “it’s all fantasy anyway”-route. (And I had a weird fascination with tabards as a kid, so it was a natural fit.)

Coding-wise, I spend some time on it because I wanted the triangular terminations to look just right, so I fiddled with the golden ratio to ensure it looked nice, no matter what the size.

The name comes from me thinking about vaguely mediaeval names starting with W, and somehow walburga popped into my head.

Rika