It looks to me like the Taymouth artist first drew nebuly lines in ink and then painted them. <?>
Heraldry does use more simplified versions. Making things fancy doesn't contribute anything to use of heraldic canting. The alternative nebuly line pictured here has bifurcated knobs.
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And there's this version of Wolkenstein.
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The terminology comes from heraldry because the early use of canting is demonstrable and because heralds left written records <blazons>. How many artists have left written descriptions of their works? Instead, artists had more to gain from elaborated and embellished representations. Some of the historic "wolkenbands", where a repeating line pattern has crests and troughs that are bulbous, are based on a nebuly line - by definition. The artist can fluff up the fanciness as imagination and skill permit.
There are two scenarios. It's either the same line pattern, put to two different uses; or it's two separate, image-related developments with the same structural form and the same 'cloudy' interpretation occurring together, which <IMHO> is highly unlikely.
Heraldry does use more simplified versions. Making things fancy doesn't contribute anything to use of heraldic canting. The alternative nebuly line pictured here has bifurcated knobs.
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And there's this version of Wolkenstein.
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The terminology comes from heraldry because the early use of canting is demonstrable and because heralds left written records <blazons>. How many artists have left written descriptions of their works? Instead, artists had more to gain from elaborated and embellished representations. Some of the historic "wolkenbands", where a repeating line pattern has crests and troughs that are bulbous, are based on a nebuly line - by definition. The artist can fluff up the fanciness as imagination and skill permit.
There are two scenarios. It's either the same line pattern, put to two different uses; or it's two separate, image-related developments with the same structural form and the same 'cloudy' interpretation occurring together, which <IMHO> is highly unlikely.