Bauer’s Clasper leaves radio industry

Bauer Radio Development Director Iain Clasper has left the radio industry after nearly 30 years to become MD of a flag and marketing mate ...

Northern Flags wins two of the UK’s newest Marathon’s.

Bauer's Lee Fletcher joins Northern Flags

Bauer Radio’s online Sales Manager Lee Fletcher has joined Leeds based promotional sig ...

Goodwood Festival of Speed

Northern Flags taking print to the extreme.

Northern Flags was task to print the banners for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. With Northern Flags turning around the print in 48 ...

Northern Flags have secured a partnership with Selfridges

Northern Flags are please to announce their contract with one of the co ...

Craig Hogg To Lead Digital And Database Marketing At Northern Flags

Leeds based Marketing supplies company www.northernflags.com has expanded it’s client marketing department with the appointment of Craig Hogg ...

Guiness World Record - The Longest Line of Bunting

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust need you and your bunting!

We want to inspire members of the public, service users, carers and staff to set a goal tha ...

British Armed Forces to be Flagbearers at London Olympics

British servicemen and women will carry the national flags at th ...

Dorking child wins Olympic flag design competiton

A CREATIVE ten-year-old will have her flag design handed out to 6,000 residents during t ...

Little Havana’s street festival sets Guiness world record for largest flag

The Calle Ocho Street Festival, the largest celebration of its kind in the United States, broke its fifth Guinness world record Sunday wit ...

Northern Flags and sister company Flagowa Kraina win Euro 2012 city dressing contract

Northern Flags is delighted to announce the exciting news that in conjunction with our sister company Flagowa Kraina, we will be providing all the city dressing for the European championships hoste ...

Union flags return on Regent Street to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 2012

Popular with Londoners, UK and international visitors alike, the flags are a fitting and patriotic tribute to one of London’s most iconic shopping streets – and to British Culture &ndas ...

Northern Flags launches new Pop Out range

Northern Flags is delighted to launch the first product in its ‘Brand in a Bag’ Range. Developed in conjunction with one of the UK’s major Print Management Companies for their aut ...

Northern Flags MD buys 25% stake in company

Northern Flags the UK’s largest supplier of Feather flags; event fabrics and soft signage today announced a change in ownership structure that brings Faber Vlaggen’s UK operation in lin ...

Northern Flags expands its client team with 3 new recruits

Northern Flags the UK’s leading supplier of custom marketing fabrics and soft signage has recruited an additional 3 key account managers to ensure it maintains its client focused strategy thr ...

New Sport & Event Support Team launched by Northern Flags

As the UK’s summer of sport goes into full swing Northern Flags is delighted to launch its new Sport and Events Department headed up by Paul Adams. The new department specialises in helping e ...

Northern Flags is pleased to announce their partnership with The Saucony Stanmer Park Races

The Saucony Stanmer Park Races will take place on Sunday 26th June 2011 in the sceni ...

Run Bristol

Northern Flags was pleased to be chosen to supply the street branding along with the feather flags for Run B ...

New Web Site Live!

The new web site features all of our new products and services, along with a brand new product details section giving you th ...

Bunting is best of British

Bunting will be bountiful at the National Trust’s Wallington house this summer as it goes for an unofficial record.

The Cambo estate will be flying the flags for a ...

Group News- Dutch flags on all Thai government buildings

The Dutch Faber Flags Group has managed to secure an order for 50.000 Thai flags. These flags will s ...

Northern Flags taking print to the extreme!

Northern Flags are providing the flags and banners for the Extreme Action’s event at Thorpe Park this weekend. Wit ...

Flags : Appliqued Flags

General Information

The applique process is the traditional method of producing bespoke designs. It requires great skill and involves sewing or appliquéing coloured cloth to the flag to produce the design. Normally the design is traced on to the cloth so that the design appears correctly on the front and in reverse on the back.

We use woven polyester for the background of the flag and knitted polyester for the design. Cotton cambric is also widely used but unlike polyester it does tend to rot and degrade on the flag.

Appliqued flags have in many cases been superseded by digitally printed flags but they are still popular because of the undoubted quality and workmanship that goes in to an appliquéd flag.