# Painted Sorority: the full reference > Arms you make for your little and your line, drawn by the herald’s rules. Facts read from the catalog on 2026-10-07. Painted Sorority by Painted.App. Operated by PaintedApp, LLC, 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202. Support, privacy and legal: support@painted.app. ## What it is Painted Sorority makes coats of arms for a line of sisters: a big and her little, a g-big, the twins who share a big. Adopt one of our crests, build one from what your line holds to, or describe the one you imagine and we paint it. Choose the color around it, add a Greek motto and your line’s names, and we print it in color or engraved to paint by hand, on canvas, fine-art paper, shirts, hoodies, throws, pillows, mugs and totes. We print no organization’s letters, crest or badge. Part of the Painted family. - The heraldry engine checks every design against the rule of tincture (no color on color, no metal on metal) and draws it as vector art at the full size of the print. - Adoptable crests: 29, in 6 groups of meaning (Learning, Sisterhood, Courage, Excellence, Justice, Loyalty). None is any organization's crest or anyone's recorded arms; charges single organizations are known by are left out. - A crest painted from the customer's own words is made by an image model (gpt-image), moderated before it runs. 4 free passes per visitor, then 10 passes for $10. Previews carry a watermark; the print or file bought does not. - Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by any sorority, fraternity or honor society. It prints no organization's name, Greek letters, nickname, crest, badge or motto. The configurator checks the customer's words against 144 organizations and refuses a match, naming whose mark it is. - Designs made here are assumed arms, made for a line (a big and her little, a g-big, twins), with no grant and no national behind them. ## The choices a customer makes 1. The crest: adopted, built for the line, described in words, or written as a blazon. 2. What to make, and its size. 3. The color around the crest: any color on paper, canvas, throws, pillows, totes and mugs. Shirts come in white, heather gray, black, navy, maroon, forest green; the cloth is the background. 4. Words: a motto above the crest (or a Greek motto with its translation), a letter or word across the shield, and up to four names below, in one of four typefaces. 5. A check that the preview is right. Nothing is printed until the customer ticks it. ## Products and prices (USD) Prices are set in the catalog and re-derived by the server at checkout. ## For the Wall Prints and canvas, from 12 × 18 inches to a 40 × 60 canvas for the chapter room. ### Fine-Art Print Your crest on smooth matte art paper, ready for a frame. Giclée on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper, unframed, printed to order. 12 × 18 in $55 · 16 × 24 in $99 · 20 × 30 in $139 · 24 × 36 in $189 ### Museum Print The heavier paper: soft cotton rag with a velvet finish. Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308gsm, 100% cotton, matte, unframed. 12 × 18 in $109 · 16 × 24 in $139 · 20 × 30 in $189 · 24 × 36 in $249 ### Gallery Canvas Stretched canvas, hung as it arrives. No frame needed. Canvas on a wooden stretcher; the sides carry your background color. 12 × 18 in $149 · 16 × 24 in $189 · 20 × 30 in $249 · 24 × 36 in $299 · 40 × 60 in $1,099 ### Framed Canvas The canvas, set in a black floating frame. The heirloom. Stretched canvas in a black float frame with a shadow gap. 12 × 18 in $229 · 16 × 24 in $289 · 20 × 30 in $369 · 24 × 36 in $449 ## To Wear Tees, crewnecks and hoodies in six colors. ### T-Shirt Your crest on the chest of a soft cotton tee. Bella+Canvas 3001, printed direct to the garment. S $49 · M $49 · L $49 · XL $49 · 2XL $49 ### Crewneck A heavy sweatshirt with the crest across the chest. Gildan 18000, printed direct to the garment. S $69 · M $69 · L $69 · XL $69 · 2XL $69 ### Hoodie A pullover hoodie, the crest above the pocket. Gildan 18500, printed direct to the garment. S $79 · M $79 · L $79 · XL $79 · 2XL $79 ## For the Home Throws, pillows, mugs and totes, printed edge to edge. ### Throw Blanket A soft throw, your background color edge to edge. Silk-touch polyester, printed edge to edge on one side, white on the back. 50 × 60 in $129 · 60 × 80 in $159 ### Fleece Blanket Soft fleece in three sizes, down to a 30 by 40 lap throw. Polyester fleece, printed edge to edge on one side, white on the back. 30 × 40 in $99 · 50 × 60 in $149 · 60 × 80 in $179 ### Mug An 11 oz ceramic mug, the crest on both sides of the handle. White glossy ceramic, 11 oz, printed round the cup. Dishwasher and microwave safe. 11 oz $30 ### Tote Bag A square tote, your color edge to edge, the crest on both sides. All-over-print tote, 15 × 15 in, black cotton handles. 15 × 15 in $65 ### Throw Pillow A square pillow, printed both sides, insert included. All-over-print premium pillow, printed on both faces, with its insert. 18 × 18 in $98 · 22 × 22 in $118 ## The File Your design to keep, print or share, and a cut-out sized for a cooler’s lid. ### Digital File The design as a large image file, to print or share yourself. One PNG, 4800 × 7200 pixels, your design exactly as previewed. Digital file $19 ### Cooler Cut-Out Your crest cut out for the lid of the cooler you paint for his formal. One transparent PNG at 300 pixels to the inch, 25½ × 14 inches: the crest and your words, nothing behind them. 25½ × 14 in file $24 ## How ordering works 1. Make the design at https://paintedsorority.vercel.app/make, tick the box that says it is right, and add it to the cart. 2. At checkout the server draws the print file at full size, then hands payment to Stripe Checkout. 3. Paper and canvas are printed to order by Prodigi; shirts, hoodies, throws, pillows, mugs and totes by Printful. 4. A digital file arrives as a download link on the confirmation page and by email. ## Turnaround No delivery date is published by Painted Sorority. Prodigi publishes production times for the wall products: 24 to 72 hours (Enhanced Matte Art), 72 hours (Photo Rag), 48 to 120 hours (stretched canvas), 72 to 120 hours (framed canvas), checked 23 September 2026. Shipping time is additional. ## Shipping $12 flat per physical order, or $19.95 for each 40 x 60 canvas, which goes by freight, to: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy. ## Refunds, in short - Damaged, misprinted or wrong pieces: reprinted or refunded; write within 30 days of delivery with a photo. - Made to order from the customer's own design: no change-of-mind returns. - Digital files: refunded in full if no link arrives within 24 hours; not refundable once delivered. - Full policy: https://paintedsorority.vercel.app/refunds ## Questions ### Can you print our letters or our crest? No. A sorority’s name, Greek letters, coat of arms and badge are its trademarks, licensed one organization at a time, and we hold no license for any of them. What we make is arms for your line, your big, your little and everyone between, which no national owns; if a word you type belongs to an organization, the maker tells you whose it is. ### Can I add our letters myself? Yes, at home. Tick “a blank ribbon across the shield” in step four and we print the ribbon empty, the same plain scroll on every piece. Once it arrives, what goes on it is yours: paint it, letter it by hand, or iron on a patch or a decal bought from one of your organization’s licensed vendors. We print nothing on the ribbon, because we hold no license to. ### What does adopting a crest mean? You choose one of our crests and take it up as your line’s. Each was drawn new by our heraldry engine from the old charges, the star, the laurel, the shell and the lion, and none is any organization’s crest. We left out the charges single sororities are known by, the lamp, the torch, the anchor, the key, the crescent and the fleur-de-lis. Change any part of it, add your words, and it is yours. ### Who counts as a line? Whoever you say: a big and her little, the twins who share a big, a g-big and everyone below her, a whole new member class. Up to four names fit beneath the crest, so one piece can carry the line, or order one for each sister in it. ### Is it for every council? Yes. The maker is built for Panhellenic, NPHC, NALFO, NAPA and NMGC chapters, and for local sororities with no national at all. It refuses every council’s letters and crests the same way, and it draws a line’s own arms for any of them. ### Can I paint it myself? Yes. Choose Engraved and the crest is drawn in ink with the engraver’s code for color, set down by Silvester Petra Sancta in 1638: dots for gold, upright lines for red, level lines for blue, diagonals for green and purple, a clear field for silver. Print it on canvas or paper and paint over it, the way a reveal gift is meant to be made, or frame it as it is. ### What can go behind the crest? Any color, a gradient or a pattern. Choose from 21 colors, blush, pink, lavender and powder blue among them, or pick any color at all; from 4 gradients, a sunset among them; or from 12 patterns, pearls, diamonds, roses and champagne among them, one thing repeated edge to edge. Name a pattern of your own and we paint it, for one painting. It is printed edge to edge on prints, canvas, throws, pillows, totes and mugs; on shirts the crest is printed straight onto the cloth, in your choice of six shirt colors. ### How loud can our crest be? As loud as you like. A motto can be a line your mother would not repeat, and a pattern can be vodka bottles or seltzer cans; we refuse only what is sexist, racist, threatening or violent. Anything sexual prints on shirts, blankets, pillows, mugs, totes and the file, never on prints or canvas, because our wall-art printer refuses it. ### Can we add our names or a motto? Yes: a motto above the crest, a Greek letter or a word across the shield, and up to four names below it, in four typefaces and five inks. The preview shows the letters exactly as they print, and we print nothing until you tick the box that says it is right. ### Can the motto be in Greek? Yes. Choose one of our Greek mottos, each an ancient line or a dictionary word with its translation beside it, or write your own. The maker checks every motto against the ones sororities and fraternities already use, and stops if yours is one of them. ### Can I paint my own crest? Yes. Choose Paint Your Own and start from an archetype, the Queen, the Beauty, the Scholar, the Huntress, the Toast, the Sunset, the Hearth, the Harvest, the Spring, the Victor, the Rainbow or the Dawn; choose the crown and your three colors, and add what the arms should show. An image model paints two versions, one plain and one grand with supporters, and you can ask it to change either. The first 4 paintings are free; after that, 10 more cost $10. It will not paint any organization’s letters, crest or badge, and a painted crest may not keep the herald’s rules, which we say beside it. ### How much does it cost? Prints from $55, shirts from $49, mugs, totes, pillows and throws from $30; digital files $19. Wall pieces come in 12 × 18, 16 × 24, 20 × 30, 24 × 36, 40 × 60 inches; shipping is $12 per order, or $19.95 for each 40 × 60 canvas in it, which goes by freight. ### What are they printed on? Prints are giclée on matte art paper or Hahnemühle cotton rag; canvases are stretched on wooden bars, the sides carrying your background color. Shirts are Bella+Canvas and Gildan, printed direct to the garment; throws, pillows and totes are printed edge to edge, and the mug is white ceramic, printed round the cup. ### Where do you ship? We ship to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Every piece is printed to order by Prodigi (wall pieces) or Printful (shirts, throws, pillows, mugs and totes). ### Can our chapter adopt it as its crest? Ask your national first: your chapter’s arms belong to it, and most nationals have rules about what a chapter may display. What you make here is assumed arms for your line, and nobody stands behind them but the sisters who made them. ### Do you draw crests from every tradition? From most. We do not draw the sacred or protected marks of living traditions: Northwest Coast crests, Māori, Hawaiian and Anishinaabe designs, adinkra, the Lion of Judah and Garuda. They are not ours to draw, and we would rather say so than paint a guess. ### What if it arrives damaged or wrong? Write to support@painted.app with a photograph and we reprint it or refund it. 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