keesh

*the missouri flag has the US coat of arms on it, which itself depicts an eagle. this kind of feels like cheating. also the US virgin islands flag has what looks to be a simplified metal outline of an eagle which i'm not counting. sorry if this offends any US virgin islands flag fans. a similar exception applies to the wyoming flag where on the flag, the seal is used on a throne of some sort and doesn't depict the actual animal. so it does not count.

the state with the MOST animals on it is kansas, with three separate species. it has five bison, four honses, and four bulls, totalling thirteen animals in total. this is the most of any flag. (a beehive is depicted on utah's flag, which likely contains a few thousand bees, but they are not visible and so i am not counting them)

the animal with the MOST states depicting it is, unsurprisingly, the eagle. second place goes to the honse.

that is all. thank you

#vexillology #flags

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~@modulusshift3/13/2023, 5:35 PM

the back!?! that's allowed? what the heck?

cassandra rose @cass3/13/2023, 6:28 PM

it's such bullshit. it feels like cheating

~@modulusshift3/13/2023, 7:20 PM

honestly I kinda don't understand how they even made that flag. Embroidering a pattern so it appears mirrored on both sides is not hard. If you want a different pattern on the back, what do you do? Embroider two different pieces of material and stitch them together? You can't just paint the dang thing, this flag's gonna be out in the weather, the paint's gonna be gone in a year. Fabric dye has the same problem as the embroidery, doesn't it? maybe if you use a thick enough material you can dye only one side? sheesh

Rey @nothe3/13/2023, 8:46 PM

they're mostly printed/replaced, AFAIK... ideally, they're taken down at night & put up in the morning, when used in official capacities?

~@modulusshift3/13/2023, 9:30 PM

I found a picture (warning, Facebook link) of what's supposedly the first Oregon state flag, made in 1925. Is that screen printed? (I admit I had no idea screen printing was a thing before, like, the 60's, but apparently it was decently well established by the 30's, and definitely possible in 1925) honestly I'm really impressed that the details seem to have survived better than the overall flag's dye, though I have no idea how much of that is due to the restoration performed in 2010.