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bookmark_borderOne Knight Inne Nobori

Posted on by Elliott Evans

I’ve made a few nobori in the past, but usually for the Clan of which my household is a member group. This one is for the household of which I’ve been a member since 1996, the year it was founded: One Knight Inne.

Nobori no One Knight Inne

The full thing is 12 feet tall and 16 inches wide (19 inches wide with the tabs). It’s made entirely of rip-stop nylon (including the tabs). The tabs are made by stitching the nylon into a tube, then stitching 7″ lengths of the tube down to the banner. I made the badge by tracing the design onto white nylon, then stitching around the whole design using a 3mm satin stitch. Then, I trimmed the white nylon to the outside of the stitching, and the blue nylon to the inside of the stitching. It should be pretty durable. It should make quite a sight up next to all the Clan Yama Kaminari banners in camp.

bookmark_borderKaminari Nobori

Posted on by Elliott Evans

Rounding out the projects that I will get around to finishing in 2021 was a kind of large one. I made five of these large nobori banners with the mon of Clan Yama Kaminari.

Kaminari Nobori #1

I would have made only four, but four is an unlucky number in most of Asia, so I made an “extra” one which is a little narrower and which I will probably keep for myself. The clan already has four nobori, so this will make 8 we can put on display in camp.

The banners are all rip-stop nylon, and about 12 feet tall. The ones for clan are 20 inches wide, and the extra one is about 17 inches wide. The nylon is all serged to avoid fraying edges. The red band is about 6 feet tall, and the black bands are 2 feet and 4 feet tall. The “tabs” around the edges are about 1.25″ wide and start out ten inches long. I cut all the tabs from extra rip-stop so that I didn’t have to buy ribbon or webbing.

The mon is done by cutting the white pieces out of fabric, attaching them to the red fabric like an applique (that is, satin-stitching around the edges), then cutting out the red fabric behind the white.