My ONE Foray Into Flag Making

For Pennsic War we needed a flag or standard for our booth space, it was required to sell there.  Most people had their business name done up on fabric or went with something ultra simple.  Since my booth was called The Falcons Mew I wanted a falcon, on something that could be seen way down the aisle at a distance. There's so much GREEN there with the trees and grass (well the grass at the START of the 10 day event is green, by day 5 it's all worn down to dirt in the aisles like you see here) so a green was out, as was most darker colors.  Purple isn't noticeable. Gold would be nice but too many others used gold, white, tan and pale blue.

 

So I settled for red as a background.  The falcon is done Egyptian style to fit into a vertical space. Medieval falcons are shown spread eagled or on a diagonal.  It's actually centered better than it looks here, the wind puffs it back and forth, which is why I put bells on the bottom tabs, they added a bit of weight.  The flag is folded in half, both sides have a bird on it and the channel I sewed across the top is where the bar goes in to attach it to the pole.

 

 

Come night fall we lift the pole out of the four footed base and just take it inside the tent.  The base is attached to the ground with two tent stakes.  It made for an easy breakdown and setup on dirt. Would not work so well on concrete though.

 

Given that we used the sign for 15 years it's really nice that the red didn't fade out in the intense sun that we got there.  Rain didn't affect it much either.  The bird is done in velours, the lines and nails are painted in black acrylic, the eye is a sew on faceted gold glass jewel.  The red is rip stop nylon.

 

You can see a trio of Cthulhu dolls and a tiger in the left front of the picture. It took a while to sell the tiger (two events), I had it priced at $25 so I'm not sure why it was with us as long as it was.