Show your pride in the red, white, and blue with this American Flag Patch Silver Border. It's one of the patches in the Flag Patches category, and it's a pretty popular one. Many bikers like to wear a U.S. flag on their jacket sleeves or on their vests. They take pride in living in the United States and want everyone to know it.
Most U.S. citizens know what the flag symbolizes: the thirteen red and white stripes stand for the thirteen original British colonies that later became the first states, while the 50 stars represent the current 50 states. Many people also know the story of how this flag was designed. What they don't know is that this story has no historical evidence behind it!
According to the popular myth, George Washington approached Betsy Ross with a sketch of his idea for a flag, which she then sewed. There's absolutely nothing backing this story up. In fact, it wasn't told for almost 100 years after the flag was designed, and it was told by Ross, grandson, making it sound more like a family legend and less like the truth. Some others credit Rebecca Young as the seamstress who made the first flag.
What little historical evidence we have suggests that it was actually a man, Francis Hopkinson, who designed the stars and stripes. He was the Chairman of the Continental Navy Board's Middle Department at the time the resolution for a new flag was passed. Unlike Ross or Young, neither of whom wrote or supposedly said anything about making a flag, Hopkinson sent Congress a bill for his work on the flag. His charge, A quarter cask of public wine!
His flag didn't have a thick silver border around it, of course, but this patch does. The border makes it easy to sew this flag to leather garments without worrying about matching the colors of the stripes and blue background.
