European Union flag with double-sided appliquéd stars

The stars are appliquéd on both sides of an embroidery machine. Precise stitching with high-quality transparent threads.

Sewn Flags are the traditional and original way of manufacturing flags, which we still offer in this digital age. They are also known as appliquéd flags. Each flag is individually handmade, building up the design/logo by stitching different fabric colors onto a flag field – similar to a mosaic.

We can make the flag in other sizes upon your request. Special prices for bulk orders.

The Flag of Europe or European Flag is an official symbol of the 46-nation, Strasbourg-based Council of Europe (CoE). Consisting of a circle of twelve golden stars on a blue field, it was designed in 1955 and adopted by the CoE that same year.

Since 1985 the flag has also been a symbol of the European Union (EU), whose 27 member states are all also CoE members, although in that year the EU had not yet assumed its present name or constitutional form (which came in steps in 1993 and 2009). Adoption by the EU, or EC as it then was, reflected long-standing CoE desire to see the flag used by other European organisations. Official EU use widened greatly in the 1990s. Nevertheless the flag has to date received no status in any of the EU's treaties. Its adoption as an official symbol was planned as part of the 2004 European Constitution but this failed to be ratified. Mention of the flag was removed in 2007 from the text of the Treaty of Lisbon, which was ratified. On the other hand, 16 EU members that year, plus France in 2017, have officially affirmed (by Declaration No. 5224) their attachment to the flag as an EU symbol.