Looking for help in sourcing materials and making a traditional style flag

[Kurt Strong]

Hi, I am new to this country so sourcing materials is a little more difficult than expected.

I am just finishing off a flag design and am wanting to make it in the hackspace.

Any advice on places to source material for a flag that is not the nylon printed variety?

Anyone else made a flag before? 

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kurt

[Adrian Godwin]

I hope someone more knowledgeable than me will reply. However, if they don't :

1. There are a number of shops selling fabric in the Oxford street and Soho area. Search for them online ('london fabric shop') and then visit. Liberty is probably the best known but probably not ideal for flag fabric.

2. Portobello Road market has some fabric stalls. So, probably, do most london markets but many will be Indian silklike fabrics less suitable for a flag.

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[Adrian Godwin]

Also some listed here :

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Suppliers#Fabric_and_Sewing_Materials

[scary boots]

I would recommend Goldhawk Road. http://www.diy-couture.co.uk/shepherdsbush.html 

Synthetics will fade less, and ripstop will be strong, avoid tearing and fly well (it's what they make kites out of: http://www.ripstopshop.co.uk/). If you need small pieces of some colour, consider recycling dead umbrella material. Put good quality grommets in to string it up, I've always had more success with things you put in manually with a hammer rather than with a tool, but maybe that's me.

(I have made an unsuccessful flag in which I did not listen to this advice, and riveted/grommeted clothing. I also made a flag to wear as a fancy-dress Britannia and had seam issues)

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[Suzie Blackman]

Where are you based, Kurt? Wimbledon sewing centre has a huge range of fabrics (though I heard it might have closed). In East London there's a place on Ridley Road market, this in Walthamstow: http://www.saeed-fabrics.co.uk/ (hilarious website) or Mermaid on the narroway in Hackney. Those are my favourites but I'm sure there are many others. 

Those around oxford street tend to be wholesalers that wont sell to consumers. 

[Kurt Strong]

Thanks everyone. I am in Kings Cross so will map out a plan of attack.