Decorative Dowel Banners

Dress up your home or storefront with a colorfully appliqued decorative banner. Just the right size for someone who does not need a large flag. Dowel Banners are 15"x36". They are constructed using double layers of UV protected, heavyweight nylon fabric, and cut at an angle so the design hangs properly at all times.

Create a custom dowel banner like the ones pictured above. We created a music note banner for a couple that has a recording studio in their home. We also created the same design on an Irish green background as a gift for a man that plays in an Irish band.

Create your own design or choose from the many styles we make for different seasons and holidays.

Logo Flags

Create an eye-catching flag with your business logo. This is one we just made for a local gym here in Seattle called Zum. They will be using the flag for off-site events to let people know where they are located.

Custom Decorative Banners For Your Home

Get the entire family together to design a flag. The cat flag (pictured above) was created by a mother and daughter. They wanted one flag that could easily change from seasons to occasions with the switch of a hat. We created patches with snaps on the back that attach to both sides of the flag. This flag is cut at an angle so it hangs properly at all times in front of the family home.

Summer In Seattle

Fisheries Supply

We are excited to announce that Fisheries Supply in Seattle is carrying our small boating flags. If you live in the area, stop in!

Seattle PI - The Tail End Of A Long Journey

It's the tail end of a long journey
280-foot naval flag signals home
By DAN RICHMAN P-I REPORTER

It is the biggest flag Carol Anderson has ever sewn. It's the biggest she has ever seen, in fact.
The artisan, who works out of rented quarters in Fremont, has created a 280-foot-long, 17-inch wide, swallow-tailed pennant at the request of the USS Carney.
That guided missile destroyer, itself 505 feet long and displacing 8,300 tons, has been serving in the Middle East and is about to return to its home port of Mayport, Fla.
U.S. naval tradition allows returning ships that have been outside the country for at least nine months to fly a ceremonial flag, properly known as a homeward-bound pennant, as they steam home and enter port.
Anderson, who works under the name C. Anderson & Co. Custom Flagmakers, said personnel aboard the Carney recently contacted her by e-mail after locating the Web site of her one-person business.
She said her site was designed to come up quickly in a search for "homeward-bound pennant," because those flags are a favorite of hers.
"I just love the way they look, though I never thought I'd make one this big," she said.
Without giving further information, the ship requested a 280-foot pennant with a single white star on the blue field at the attached end, properly known as the hoist. (The other end is known as the fly.)
She promptly got to work, folding, refolding and cutting yards of red, white and blue 200-denier ultraviolet-resistant nylon on her 12-foot-long work table. She sewed the lengths together using her twin-needle industrial sewing machine, with attachments that automatically join two widths of fabric and fold the fabric onto itself to form a finished edge.
As she sat assembling the pennant, she said, she wondered what she had gotten into, especially as the fabric repeatedly became tangled. But she completed the work last week and shipped it Friday, without knowing how it will be put aboard the Carney.
Anderson, 55, wouldn't divulge how much she charged the Navy for her work, but she said it took three solid days to finish.
The Navy couldn't be reached for details. But if the Carney followed the rules when ordering the pennant -- and, the Navy being the Navy, it probably did -- three conclusions can be reached:
There are 280 people aboard the Carney.
Naval Telecommunications Procedures 13(B), Section 1609, specifies that a homeward-bound pennant shall have 1 foot of length for each officer and enlisted person onboard who has been on duty outside the U.S. for more than nine months. The overall length of the pennant is not to exceed the ship's length. The Carney can carry 338 people, but it may not be at capacity.
The Carney has been continuously outside the U.S. for at least nine months, but less than 15 months. Those same procedures call for one star for nine months outside the country and a second star for each additional six months.
This was the Carney's first extended overseas tour of duty.
The Carney apparently had no pennant, though according to its Wikipedia online entry, it has served in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
The daughter of an Army man, Anderson got started in flag making in Newport, R.I., where she owned and operated a business for 14 years.
She opened in Seattle seven months ago, custom-making pretty much any flag, banner or pennant anyone -- even a nonboat owner -- could want.

P-I reporter Dan Richman

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Welcome Aboard!

Welcome to the blog of C. Anderson & Company

Seattle Flag Makers!

I have been a professional custom flag maker since 1983. Flag making is a fascinating business, more of an art and I am very passionate about the work I do. I owned and operated the flag shop called Flying Colors, on Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island for nearly fourteen years. We serviced many homeowners and businesses, as well as the America's Cup teams and hundreds of boaters, both power and sail.

Fast forward to 2007 and to Seattle, Washington. Many of our old customers, who became part of the family in Newport, will finally be able to raise the flag because we're back in business! Our new customers will be thrilled to have found such a treasure. We are known for the quality of our workmanship and service and that has not changed.

I'll be updating this blog with photos of custom work as well as other news, so check back often.

Welcome Aboard!

Carol Anderson