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Has anyone made or used flags? Are they good? Any tips for making them, esp how to effectively weight them?
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Hey there
I am dieing to play with them, infact I just got some material to make some...
Zoe gave me a design of just a big square and putting popcorn kernels as the weights in the top corner. Haven't tried it just yet but once I do I'll post the results
Great thread, this will be most helpful.
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I want flags so bad. Maybe I'll make some myself.... maybe that's not the best idea.
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really want to play with some too for daytime spinning! Want something really big too show up across fields...anyone up for taking some to glastonbury? Think they'd look amazing if a few spun together in a group!
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I want to learn flags, too. I met a girl this weekend who said she'd share her pattern with me if I share my sweing machine with her .... so keep looking at this space, kids, should be a pattern up here soon enough.
The saucy one
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The more triangular ones are easier to spin with I find... the square ones don't tend to hold their shape quite as well.
But either way, they're bloody knackering!
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Thanks
Reail issue is best how to weight it. I think coins would be good but too much potential for head splitting. Probably go with rice bags...
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Weight it where?
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have been thinking of making some completely triangular flags with weights in each corner to enable throws etc... will this work?
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Spiralx: bottom corner so it spins properly. Unweighted flags would lose their shape
Pollenski: Without a swivel between your flags and your handles i foresee some very complicated spinning to prevent your flags from wrapping round themselves. Try using just a light piece of material like you would poi to see what i mean
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no spinning from one of the corners, not from the middle, just a big triangle and i grab whichever corner's nearest the hand (in throws) maybe need a little rigid wire down the lengths tho which would ruin the natural flutteriness (!?) but i think would still look good, maybe a little bit of material coming off each corner for a grip...
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just reread and see what you mean about swivels....hmmm....must think...
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hmmm...decided to make a set of flags today and just finished, kind of made them in a strange way in that they have a string going to the corner with the finger loops on the end of the string...maybe hyperlooping flags!?!?! anyway, i love em to spin and am proud to say i made them from scratch!!!!! lots of sewing involved, would recommend electric machine thingy as my fingers are nearly bleeding.... or one of those thimble things might work...anyway anyone going to glasto will have the joy of seeing my first flags, only a small surface area (bout 60x30cm i reckon mate!)
erm anyhoo, night, knackered, noodle!
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elloo. I made some fairly recently.. largish rectangles of light polyester fabric (cheaper than silk) about 1m by 60cm maybe? Sewed popcorn kernels into a hem about halfway down one short side and a third down a long side, then just hold onto them where the hem ends. either by the long or the short edge.. you get different effects. havn't been been using them a great deal at the moment though, i haven't found all that many exciting things to do with them. it doesn't seem to hard too keep them untagled though so long as you keep turning. i can do 5 beat weaves and stuff no problem. pretty, like wings
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Couldn't you just put a swival on the handles so the wouldn't get tangled?
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Hilariously I got so excited about having just got to spin fire and the glowsticks last night (see Fire!) I completely forgot that I'd also had a go with my mates flags- they were gorgeous things- He got a tailor in india to make them when he was out there. They are larrrge, deep purple silk rectangles, weighted with curtain weights down 2 edges-
He'd had swivels on the corners but they didn't work on that particular set so you just had to hold them, meaning 5 bts and the like were nigh on impossible unless you turned loads- still, the effect was fantastic and totally unique
Must get me some of these too
Chut (I must remember to use preview and not submit- I keep spotting spelling mistakes and having to edit it)
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i made some flags too well i tried they dont work to well....they're too long so they touch the ground ill have to fix that and i cant figure out how to stop them from twisting up, is that what swivels prevent? and aswell as all that the faberic is so thin that im afraid that they're gonna crack and rice will go flying every where ill have to resew that too
god i hate sewing!!!
so any advice? :roll:
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oh yeah also, wud it work if i just took the handles off my normal pois?
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I think you'd need the swivally bit to keep it from twisting up. All this talk of flags makes me want to try and make some. Now that would be fun, or funny.
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yep the swivel is the important bit. If u cant cannibalise a set with them on try a fishing tackle shop
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i find you can attach/release the poi handles form most poi quite easily and so just sewed a little loop on one corner and attached the swivel and handle to that whenever I wantded to spin them!
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Ive used a couple of diferent types of flags, and although they do look quite cool, I found them to be very hard work, and also limited in the amount of moves you can do with them, something to do with the shape not allowing you to get as many beats in as tailed poi.
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I love my set... They're heavy and hard work, but worth it. They are triangular white/uv, with the short side just a little longer than my arm. I have poi handles on the corner of the short side and hypotenuse, (used to have suede grips but these broke!) strips of curtain weighting at the 90degree corner, and a small swivel; excepting hyperloops and buzzsaws, there's not a move I cakn do with normal poi that I can't with flags, as the swivel is all-important. I've even managed to pull clean wraps aroubd arms, legs, etc. I think I wax lyrical about them in another thread somewhere... Can't remeber where, though. Asthaetically, they're well worth the expense, time and effort that goes into making/buying them (mine were £34 from Oddballs and have taken LOTS of abuse!!!) And as for tiring? I take them to the union with me, and have spun them from 10.30pm-1.30am non-stop. So there.