For the study of the Camp of Israel and after, one of our LDV artists, Nicole Whitehead, has designed beautiful Tribal Banners, patterned after those described in Numbers. Nicole did a fabulous job, hand painting acrylic on artboard, and we have digitized the paintings (professionally photographed and edited in Adobe Photoshop) and prepared them to be printed on felt - each is approximately 7″ across and 18″ long.
Each banner has the Brigade symbol in the upper left corner, the tribe name at the top, a row of olive leaves, the Hebrew tribe name below that to the left, with the tribe gem pictured in a grid depicting birth order to the right, the tribe colors are used as background in the area beneath, with the tribe symbol in the center. At the bottom is a compass depicting the position of the tribe in the Camp of Israel, north/south/east/west.
Designs are put on the felt through a process called sublimation. There are several steps involved, so from the original hand-painted designs to the final felt banners, we had to work very hard to get the colors right. After several tries, Nicole and I drove to the felt company with her originals and worked with their staff to achieve accurate colors. The only way to do it was to find the right color on some existing felt product and pick that color in the software and apply it where we needed it in the image files. Whew! We finally got it figured out and the banners are gorgeous!
My husband wants to hang the banner for Ephriam (our tribe) on our front porch. The nice thing is, the felt is color safe and washable, so we can hang it outdoors. SEE THE ENTIRE SET, or PURCHASE IN OUR STORE NOW.
Thanks to the folks at Storytime Felts and to Nicole for not only her designs, but her perseverance in getting the digital photos and coming with me to the factory to get the colors right!
Debra
