Estonian Flag

Estonian Flag

19,00 €

Did you know that Emilie Beermann, a teacher at the Põltsamaa parish school, sewed Estonia’s first blue, black and white flag in 1884, which was blessed as the flag of the Estonian Students’ Association in Otepää Church on June 4, 1884? The tricolor was approved as the national flag on November 21, 1918.

On February 24, 1918, the Republic of Estonia was proclaimed with blue, black and white flags flying.

This story of how the flag was created is celebrated in a very special way every year in Põltsamaa. For example, on the 135th anniversary of the Estonian flag, Põltsamaa municipality invited everyone interested to form the world’s largest blue, black and white human flag. But the flag 130th On the 10th birthday, Katre Arula and Kersti Pook made a copy of the first blue, black and white flag in the correct size (175×375 cm) from three strips of fabric. Instead of silk, special modern flag fabric was used, which was edged with silver diamonds on both sides, reported Aktualne kamera.

As part of the same venture, in 2014, the idea came to start making homemade cloth flags from cotton fabrics with small patterns. This is how these small flags are made at Katre Meistrikoja in Põltsamaa Castle Yard.

DIMENSIONS:

25×15.5cm, rod 48

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