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James Howell & Co

Flag displayed at the departure dinner held for Captain Scott and his officers in the Royal Hotel in Cardiff on 13 June 1910, two days before the expedition sailed for Antarctica. It was flown on the mainmast of the TERRA NOVA when the ship returned to Cardiff at the end of the expedition on 14 June 1913.

Made from white, green and red tabby woven wool fabric; selvages at top and bottom edge. Left corners are reinforced with triangles of white and green wool fabric. Wooden toggle at upper left corner and bast fibre rope (3-ply, Z-twist) pulled through 4.5cm wide tabby woven linen sleeve along left side edge. Rope protrudes by 85cm from lower left corner; end of rope is looped and knotted; rope is hand-stitched to sleeve at top and bottom. C. 3cm wide turn-back along right edge hand-stitched with coarse overcast stitches using black thread. The dragon motif is cut out and machine stitched to green and white fabric with 2 rows of machine stitches c. 1cm apart. On the reverse, the stitching threads are white, while on the front, the outer thread is black and the inner is white. Details of dragon motif are painted on with black and white paint.

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Collection Area

Social & Cultural History

Item Number

13.198

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
Association Type: use
Date: 1910 - 1913
Associated Person/Body: Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
Association Type: use
Date: 1910

Creation/Production

James Howell & Co

Acquisition

Donation, 1913

Measurements

Width (mm): 3450
Height (mm): 1830
Length (cm): 85

Techniques

weaving
machine stitched

Material

tabby weave (wool)
wood
cotton (spun and twisted)

Location

In store
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