I am enough intrigued by flag books to have made several of them, but have yet to do the one that interests me the most: where the image coherently stretches from one flag to the next. Maybe that will be my next project, after two or three others I already have in mind.  So this is the most recent flag book completed several years ago.

It is the fore runner of a series of “Dead Fish” books I will talk about later.

One of the first flag books I made used images from Japan. For the flags, I removed the background from photos I took at a parade in Kyoto, Japan, in 2007. Then I made backs for each image; not great, but passable. They look like paper dolls, or almost like baseball cards. From an atlas printed in Japan that I bought for a dollar I used pages to make the covers.

The other book was for a birthday gift.  The cover looks like this:

The outside is a light card stock with an embossed metallic finish. Inside endpapers are tie die paper I made in the book workshop. You can see the accordion at the bottom; the fold is only about half an inch. It should have been more like one and a quarter inches. Some of the words I put on the flags don’t show up unless you move them. Below are several of the flag books, and other books made in a workshop.