The Dream Flag Project

Making a Dream Flag Line

There are a number of good ways to attach your Dream Flags to a line. They're outlined in the Create section of this site. Here are some pointers and one important notice:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: LABEL FLAG or STRIP

If your flags will be displayed at the Philadelphia Kimmel Center Celebration (April 19): Include a label flag to the left of all of your flags. This should be a flag with identification of your school, its location, and the grades of the participants.

If your flags will be given to Dream Flag staff to be send on exhibition around Philadelphia:

• Please create them in lengths of about 20 feet, or as close to that as you can come.
• Include about a foot of rope at each end for attaching to another line.
• Include a label (school name, grades, location) on each length of flags. This can be a strip of cloth tied to your line. (Very important so flags get back to you.)

POINTERS:

1. When you buy rope, clothes line works well. Figure about 1 foot per flag.
2. A good distance between the flags is 2-3 inches. It allows enough for each to bee seen individually and economizes on space.
3. If you sew, the easiest way is to go through the cloth over the TOP of the rope, around it, then through the cloth again. That way you never have to sew through the rope (very hard on fingers), and it's still secure.
4. Hot glue gun is probably the fastest, secure way to attach a large number of flags.
5. If you have more than twenty flags, using several pieces of rope is easier. When the flag lines get bigger than 20 feet (the approximate size for 20 flags), then they're hard to manage and transport.
6. Leave at least a foot of rope at each end of your flag line so you can easily tie it to another one.
7. You can accordion fold flags and clip them together for better storage (so they don't get tangled) if you're taking them places.
8. Put groups of flags in paper bags with your school name on it to transport them.

To see our inspiration for this presentation method, check out these great pictures of Nepalese prayer flags!