Flag Day

 

June 14th has been celebrated as Flag Day for about 125 years, recalling the date in 1777 when the rebellious colonies adopted the American ensign. 

WPA poster 1939

Elizabeth Holmes, 1869, Illinois. Detail: Lincoln/Flag quilt

About 1860

Following tradition, altered flags express opinion. 

The flag is a great graphic, easily recognizable and composed of pattern that translates while keeping its identity.

One reason the image works so well in the needlework of resistance

that we see today in our troubled times.

Crafty Badger

Social Justice Sewing Academy

"Veer" by Jacquie Gering

Joan Evans

Flags given to Utah politicians

Liz Havartine

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Shawn Quinlan

Necessary Switch

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About 1865

Jeff Bridgman Antiques

American Revolutionary Samuel Adams wrote in the Boston Gazette:

The patriot's purpose is to "keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not suffer them to be at rest, till the causes of their just complaints are removed."