<P> When the field is patterned with an even number of horizontal (fesswise) stripes, this is described as barry e.g. of six or eight, usually of a colour and metal specified, e.g. barry of six argent and gules (this implies that the chiefmost piece is argent). More rarely, a barry field can be of two colours or two metals . (The arms of the Kingdom of Hawai'i show a very unusual example of barry of three different tinctures, and there are even more exceptional examples of barry of a single tincture, as in the arms of Kempten on the Zurich roll, (1). The arms of Eyfelsberg zum Wehr provide a perhaps unique example of barry of four different tinctures that do not repeat . With ten or more pieces, the field is described as barruly . A field having the appearance of a number of narrow piles throughout issuing from the dexter of sinister flanks is barry pily . </P> <P> When the field is patterned with an even number of vertical stripes (pallets), the field is described as paly . </P> <P> When the field is patterned with a series of diagonal stripes (bendlets), running from top - left to bottom - right, the field is described as bendy . In the opposite fashion (top - right to bottom - left) it is bendy sinister; (of skarpes, the diminutive in England of the bend sinister) of chevronels, chevronny . (An unusual example of bendy in which a metal alternates with two colours is in the arms of Dr. Murray Lee Eiland Jr .) </P> <P> In modern practice the number of pieces is nearly always even . A shield of thirteen vertical stripes, alternating argent and gules, would not be paly of thirteen, argent and gules, but argent, six pallets gules . (This is the lower portion of the shield on the Great Seal of the United States of America . The incorrect blazon is usually used anyway, to preserve the reference to the thirteen original colonies, and this form is occasionally imitated allusively .) One unusual design is described in part as bendy of three though, as each third is again divided, the effect is of a six - part division . </P>

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