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Shop for flags with our Registered British Flagmakers and Trade Members, or explore and enjoy websites, blogs and podcasts from societies, organisations and vexillologists worldwide.
Registered British Flagmakers and Trade Members
Shopping for flags? Our Registered British Flagmakers are listed first, with our Trade Members below them.
Keep your eyes open for our Flag Institute logo and follow the links below.
Registered British Flagmakers
To join as a Registered British Flagmaker, a firm must be a manufacturer of traditional sewn flags in the UK.
Flagmakers (opens in a new tab)flagmakers.co.uk- Flying Colours Ltd (opens in a new tab)flyingcolours.org
- Hampshire Flag Company (opens in a new tab)hampshireflag.co.uk
- Piggotts (opens in a new tab)piggotts.co.uk
Trade Members
Our Trade Members include flagmakers of all kinds. Visit their individual websites for details. Publishers and other commercial firms are also included.
All firms are listed for information only and inclusion does not imply endorsement. Please quote the Flag Institute when contacting any of these firms.
Flag links
Flag-related resources from vexillologists, societies and organisations around the world.
Websites and podcasts
Websites, blogs and podcasts from individual vexillologists.
- Banderas de Argentina y de todo el mundo (opens in a new tab)
Blog focused on the flags of Argentina
banderasargentinas.blogspot.com - Flagged for Content (opens in a new tab)
Podcast hosted by Flag Institute member Andy Richardson
youtube.com - Flags and Arms of the Modern Era (FAME) (opens in a new tab)
Flags of the Balkans
zeljko-heimer-fame.from.hr - Flags in Focus (opens in a new tab)
Podcast hosted by Tareth Peacock, in association with the Flag Institute
youtube.com - Philip Tibbetts Lyon Court Vexillologist (opens in a new tab)
Website of the Flag Institute Communities Vexillologist
vexillologist.scot
Societies
A selection of flag society websites worldwide. The full list of flag societies is available from the FIAV website. Flags of the World is the most comprehensive online resource dedicated to vexillology, with 91,000 pages and 224,000 images.
- Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques (FIAV) (opens in a new tab)
International Federation of Vexillological Societies
fiav.org - Flags of the World (FOTW) (opens in a new tab)
The world’s largest vexillological website with over 91,000 pages and 224,000 images
fotw.info
- Centro Italiano di Studi Vessillologici (opens in a new tab)
Italian Centre for Vexillological Studies
cisv.it - Corporación Nacional de Vexilología de Chile (opens in a new tab)
National Vexillological Organisation of Chile
conavexcl.wordpress.com - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flaggenkunde (opens in a new tab)
German Society for Vexillology
flaggenkunde.de - Erdélyi Címer- és Zászlótudományi Egyesület / Asociația de Heraldică și Vexilologie sin Transilvania (opens in a new tab)
Transylvanian Heraldic and Vexillological Association
facebook.com - Flag Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)
Publisher and reprinter of scholarly monographs
flagheritagefoundation.org - Flag Research Center (opens in a new tab)
Founded in 1962, the original vexillological institution
flagresearchcenter.org - Flag Society of Australia (opens in a new tab)
News, views and publications from Down Under
flagsaustralia.com.au - Fundación de Estudios Vexilológicos (opens in a new tab)
Vexillological Studies Foundation (Spain)
fundesvex.org - Genealogical Society of Ireland: Brateolaíocht Éireann (opens in a new tab)
Vexillology Ireland
familyhistory.ie - Genealogijos, heraldikos ir veksilologijos institutas (opens in a new tab)
Institute of Genealogy, Heraldry and Vexillology (Lithuania)
ghvi.lt - Heraldry Society (opens in a new tab)
Promotes the study and knowledge of heraldry and allied subjects
theheraldrysociety.com - Heraldry Society of Scotland (opens in a new tab)
Promotes the study and knowledge of Scottish heraldry and allied subjects
heraldry-scotland.co.uk - Hrvatsko grboslovno I zastavoslovno društvo (opens in a new tab)
Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association
hgzd.hr - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vlaggenkunde (opens in a new tab)
Netherlands Vexillological Society
vlaggenkunde.nl - Nihon Kishōgaku Kyōkai / 日本旗章学協会 (opens in a new tab)
Japanese Vexillological Association
j-flags-java.org - North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) (opens in a new tab)
News, views and publications from Canada, Mexico and the USA
nava.org - Polskie Towarzystwo Weksylologiczne (opens in a new tab)
Polish Vexillological Association
weksylologia.pl - Portland Flag Association (opens in a new tab)
News, views and publications from Oregon (USA)
portlandflag.org - Sakhelmts’ipo simbolik’isa da heraldik’is dep’art’ament’i (opens in a new tab)
Department of State Symbols and Heraldry of Georgia
heraldika.ge - Southern African Vexillological Association (opens in a new tab)
News, views and publications from the Cape to the Congo
savaflags.org.za - Vexillological Association of the State of Texas (opens in a new tab)
News, views and publications from the Lone Star State
texflags.org
Organisations
A selection of flag-related organisations and events.
- College of Arms (opens in a new tab)
The official heraldic authority for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and much of the Commonwealth
college-of-arms.gov.uk - Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (opens in a new tab)
The UK government’s flag flying rules
gov.uk - People’s History Museum, Manchester (opens in a new tab)
Political and trade union flags and banners
phm.org.uk - Scottish Flag Trust (opens in a new tab)
Manages the Saltire Memorial and Heritage Centre at Athelstaneford, birthplace of Scotland’s flag
scottishflagtrust.com