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While traveling through the Colorado Rockies, I came upon an antique shop that had a stack of flannel flags from countries all over the world. How intrigued I was to discover this treasure. Research provided the key. In the late 1800s and early 1900s flour, sugar and tea manufacturers enclosed a small flag or banner with their product. Sometimes these were made of flannel, and sometimes they were made of silk. In addition, small flannel flags or banners were given with tobacco purchases. Ladies used these to make table coverings as well as quilts. Some of the silk banners have portraits of women on them, and are fairly small. The flannel pieces have flags, college crests, and Indian designs, and are all different sizes, some quite large. You can find these pieces in antique shops, ranging quite a bit in price. The first stack I purchased cost $32 for about 30 of them. That was in the mid 1980s. Recently I saw some at a local antique shop for $20-25 each.
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Penny Halgren www.How-to-Quilt.com
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