The Knights
Templar Cipher
Wear the language of the hidden brotherhood
Explore CollectionA Code Born in War
In the 12th century, the Knights Templar were not only warriors — they were scholars, bankers, and keepers of secrets. To protect their most sensitive communications from enemy eyes, they encoded messages in a system of geometric symbols known today as the Pigpen Cipher.
Each letter of the alphabet was replaced by the shape of the grid cell or angled bracket that contained it — simple lines and dots that concealed entire worlds of meaning. Correspondence between commanders, oaths sworn in ceremony, and knowledge passed between initiates all flowed through these silent symbols.
"Every design encodes a real Templar phrase. Only those who hold the key can read what you carry."
— MacTíre Heritage, The Cipher Collection
Three Pillars of the Collection
Authentic Cipher
Based on the original 12th-century Templar Pigpen grid — the same geometric system used by the Order to conceal military and financial correspondence.
Hidden Meaning
Every design encodes a real historical phrase, chivalric oath, or Templar motto. Meaning visible to all, legible to none — unless they know the key.
Decoder Included
Each order ships with a handcrafted cipher key card. Reveal the message to those you choose — or keep it hidden from the world entirely.
The Order & The Code
Founded in 1119 AD and dissolved by Papal decree in 1312, the Knights Templar existed for less than two centuries — yet their influence on cryptography, banking, and esoteric tradition has echoed for seven hundred years.
Their cipher was not mere novelty; it was operational security in a world where captured correspondence meant death. To wear these symbols is to carry a fragment of that world — the cold geometry of secrecy, the discipline of silence.
Read the Cipher
The Templars are gone.
Their cipher lives on.
Now you can carry it.