Barony members flags

Since I am using this blog to detail my experiences with the A&S 50 challenge, I should write about the flags people have been making. One of my challenges is to make 50 pieces of "dress up" for our Baronial camps. We have only been a Barony of the East Kingdom for about 5 years. When we bacame a Barony we slightly changes our device. Therefore we dis not have any heraldic flags to represent ourselves. Now I could not see making 50 pieces with heraldry just for the Barony, so I asked people if they wanted to make personal flags to decorate the camp also. This was we end up with lots of flutterys, and a little more bling. Toward this end we have been making silk flags with our own heraldry on them (or any pattern for that matter).

Here are some of the flags which have been made so far. I am using a resist method for them. Most of the materials have come from dharma Trading Post at: http://www.dharmatrading.com/

We are using 44" square silk handkerchiefs with hand rolled hems, Jacquard silk colors with the green label and Pebeo gutta in black. I like this resist because it does not have to be removed and it leaves a fine black outline around the patterns. I was originally worried about it adding some weight to the fabric which would limit the flutteriness (is that a word?), but it does not seem to be a problem. When the gutta dries it adds very little to the fabric. It may be an issue if you had a piece with a huge amount of outlining, but no one has had any issues with it yet. There is a rinse step at the end which uses a fair amount of water. We have been hanging them up and spraying them down with the hose. Now that it is getting warmer again, we can start working on them again. So far 23 have been made. The target , of course, is 50 and we are already about half way there.

Mine is the blue and yellow flag with a single arrow in the first picture. I am lucky to have a large backyard where I can do this sort of thing.