The Fall/Winter 2025 issue focuses on the prevalence of signs and symbols in the decorative arts, ranging from the obvious to the esoteric, and everything in between. 

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Articles explore rebus plates, which require viewers to decipher visual riddles, as well as the painted emblems designed by WWII sailors to represent their ships. Also inside this issue, readers will learn the fascinating history of gun shield art at the Royal Canadian Navy's Seagoing Officers' Club in St. John's, and be introduced to the chainmaille of Morris Fox, imbued with polyvalent symbolism. Finally, an article by Sophie Piao—at age eleven, the magazine’s youngest writer to date—goes beyond pattern recognition to define themes in Canadian quilts that demonstrate their social, economic, and cultural contributions.