What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 15 - In the Dining Room

Having looked at a few ways to use your heraldry in the kitchen creating food, today we're going to start looking a ways to use your heraldry where that food is eaten: the dining room.

Why don't we start with what is usually the largest piece of furniture in the dining room: the dining room table.

There are several different ways that the dining room table can be used for a display of heraldry.

The first, of course, is the table itself can be such a display, like this table which has the arms of the municipalities in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, painted onto its surface:

Too much, you say? Well, maybe you're right.

How about something a little less "in your face"? For example, a tablecloth with embroidered coats of arms on it? Here are a couple of examples of ways this might be done.

Still maybe a little excessive? (Though, "Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice" according to one comedian.)

Well, then, how about just an armorial table carpet or table runner?

As you can see from these examples, there are a number of ways to turn your dining room table into a display of heraldry.