Hand Waving Flags in Dubai: Bigger, and Meant for a Crowd Shot
A hand waving flag is the larger cousin of the giveaway stick flag. Fabric instead of film, a proper handle, and sized so that a few hundred of them fill a frame when a crowd raises them together. Hand waving flags in Dubai are bought for the photograph as much as for the audience.
Quantity: 50 pieces · Material: Knitted polyester · Printed sides: Single sided
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
Size Is Chosen for the Camera
Around forty five by thirty centimetres or larger. From a stage or a stand, small flags disappear into the crowd and a block of colour never materialises. This is the main reason to step up from a stick flag.
The Handle Is Held for Hours
A moulded plastic or wooden handle with some thickness to it, because a thin stick becomes uncomfortable within twenty minutes of waving.
Fabric Is Hemmed Properly
Unlike giveaway flags, these are sewn on all edges. They are waved hard, often by people who are not being gentle, and an unhemmed edge frays within the first event.
Colour Has to Carry at Distance
From the far side of a stadium, detail is invisible and only large blocks of colour register. Designs are simplified deliberately for this, and a detailed logo is usually reduced to its strongest element.
They Are Kept
People take these home. That changes the calculation, because the flag carries the brand well beyond the event in a way a disposable stick flag never does.
Delivered Event Ready
Assembled onto handles and boxed in counted quantities for distribution across entrances. Because these are kept, put something on them worth keeping. A date and an event name turns a giveaway into a souvenir, and it costs nothing extra to print. Handle length is worth specifying and not simply accepting. A short handle is cheaper and leaves a waving flag close to the face of the person next to you, which at a packed event is the complaint stewards hear most.
One practical warning for stadium use: many venues restrict the length and material of anything handed to a crowd, including flag poles and handles. Check with the venue before producing several thousand.
Compare with hand flags, stadium crowd flags, and decorative flags.
What you get.
- Material
- Knitted polyester · Satin · Paper
- Printed sides
- Single sided · Double sided
- Quantities
- 50 · 100 · 250 · 500 · 1,000 pieces, or any other number
- Turnaround
- Usually 4–6 working days
- Proof
- A digital proof before anything prints
- Delivery
- All seven emirates, or collect from Dubai South
What every order includes
- A free prepress check on your file
- A digital proof before anything prints
- One VAT-inclusive quote with a production date
- Delivery to all seven emirates, or collection from Dubai South
Setting up your file.
- 01Work at full size or to scaleBuild the file at full size, or at a stated scale such as 1:10 when the canvas gets too big, and tell us the scale.
- 02Match resolution to distanceSomething read from a few metres away needs far less resolution than a business card. Around 100 dpi at full size is usually plenty.
- 03Tell us how it will be fixedHems, eyelets, pole pockets and frames take up material around the edge. Tell us the fixing and prepress allows for it.
- 04Send logos as vectorsAI, EPS, SVG or PDF keeps edges sharp at large sizes. Embed or outline the fonts.
Quick answers.
Large enough to read from a stand. Bigger than a stick flag.
Yes, all round. They take hard use.
Often. Check handle length and material first.