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The Search Engine for Flags
The Flag-Finder
The Flag-Finder offers the option to attribute a once seen flag easily and
quickly. Search, identify and find your flag! The Flag-Finder contains more
than 3.500 images of flags
from all officially recognized countries
of the world, from secessionist
areas, as well as historic flags, flags of many provincial or territorial
sub-territories, flags of nations,
colonies, the
special flags of the states and territories, such as merchant and marine flags (ensigns)
or flags of the heads of state.
Flags and Banners of the World
The Flag-Finder will help you to search
and to identify a flag that you have seen somewhere. It works as a filter.
You just have to know the characteristics of the flag which you are
looking for. Click simply through the Flag-Finder, and exclude or confirm these
characteristics. The search will be supported during the process by simple pattern flags,
they give some guidance.
With the connected Flag and
State Encyclopedia you will find background-informations about the to the flag
belonging countries, states or territories, and further
informations about their Coat of Arms (Heraldry), Flags (Vexillology),
Geography and History.
For an alphabetical search, please click here.
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Find out something about making flags:
Flags can be a mass product, as we know from sporting events or demonstrations. Such high
numbers of flags can only be produced by screen printing. This means that the colour is
pressed through a sieve into the flag material, which contains
additionally some images, in a pretty fast
machine. The advantage is a low unit costs in large jobs, and of course the
possibility to use true colors. The color reproduction is thus not generated by the
combined printing of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, but it come to use the pure and
genuine colours.
The color pigments remain homogeneous, become not mixed, what brings a clear
and optically
pure colour impression.
In small quantities become flags, for cost reasons, printed digitally.
The image is applied without an intermediate stage (such as screen-sieves) in the
overprint of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, directly on the bunting. The color
penetrates the bunting and becomes then fixed yet. That makes colourfast.
Digital printing is not inexpensive,
but the price is okay in the case of small
numbers.
What kinds of bunting there?
Basically are two types of bunting are
used for flags: light glossy polyester
or tough ship-flag polyester. Here is a
comparison of these two types => click here
What matters is if
the flag should be a stick flag,
then it would get a
hemstitch
to slide onto
the flagpole,
or it has to be a flag for hoist. For hoisting flags is
sutured a solid braid (mostly white) at the leech which absorbs the forces acting on the
suspension of the flag. To hoist is one thing, the way of hoisting the other. There
are different kinds
of processing: With carbines in plastic or in metal, with
metal eyelets (brass) in the braid, or cord and cord loop in the
braid. You should think before exactly which option you choose, or which variant the
suspension the flagpole in front of the house permits. Here you can find informations
about making flags in low numbers => click
here
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