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Home > Glossary of Flag Terms
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Glossary of Flag Terms
- Appliquéd: One piece of material sewn (stitched) to another
- Cleat: The device used to secure the bottom of a flagpole halyard (rope)
- Color Fastness: The ability of material to resist fading and color migration
- Ferrule: The tubular portion of an ornament placed over the top of a pole to hold the ornament
- Field: The portion of a U.S. Flag that is blue with white stars
- Flash Collar: A decorative-protective cover often used at the base of an outdoor flagpole
- Fly End: The free flying end of a flag usually opposite the heading
- Fringed: A flag with fringe around all or part of its perimeter
- Front: The surface seen when a flag is in its normal flying position with the hoist to the viewer's left (The "back" is the reverse)
- Grommets: The brass rings or eyelets (normally in the heading) for mounting outdoor flags
- Halyard: The rope for an outdoor flagpole used to raise and lower the flag
- Heading: The heavy canvas or other reinforcing material at the side or end from which the flag or banner will be supported
- Hoist: The side of a flag next to the pole
- House Flags: A company flag, usually bearing a trademark or name
- Indoor Flags: Flags constructed primarily for indoor display or temporary outdoor parade use, with pole hem
- Joint: The device used to hold a 2-piece pole together
- Outdoor Flags: Flags constructed primarily for use on an outdoor pole - with heading and grommets or roped
- Outfit: A complete display unit, flag, pole, mounting device, pole ornament, and on indoor outfits, a tassels and cord set
- Outrigger: A flagpole mounted on a building at an angle other than vertical
- Plain: A flag without fringe
- Pole Band: The canvas heading of the flag left open at both ends so that a staff can be passed through it
- Pole Hem: A sleeve or tunnel of the same fabric and color as the background of the flag, through which the staff is passed for mounting indoor and parade flags
- Roped: A flag with a rope passing through the heading and looped and secured at each end. The halyard of the flagpole is then attached to the loops. Normally used only on large outdoor flags.
- Snap: A device used to attach a flag to the halyard (rope) on a flagpole
- Top & Bottom: The upper and lower horizontal edges of a flag in its normal flying position
- Truck: The device at the top of an outdoor pole that houses the pulley wheel
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