Founded 80 years ago as a flag maker, it moved into costumes in the 1920's.

Annin & Company, in Roseland, founded in 1847, says it is the country's oldest and largest flag maker.

Multiple copies of Wilson's flag will be constructed by professional flag makers if needed for replacement.

Flags measuring 30 by 60 feet, previously made only on special order, are now part of the regular stock at the nation's roughly two dozen flag makers.

The primary motivator for all this, flag makers and flag owners agree, is President Reagan.

There are at least 17 flag makers and upholsterers who worked in Philadelphia during the time the flag was made.

Any flag maker in Philadelphia could have sewn the first American flag.

Rebecca (Flower) Young was a flag maker during the American Revolution.

Her mother retired as the president of Festive Flags, a flag maker in Springfield.

The white stripe was a convenient place for the flag makers to embellish the flag with some motto or inscription.