The Banner Book

"Creatively express your faith with designing and crafting colorful banners for your church.

Betty Wolfe’s classic manual covers all the essential steps and information needed for quick and easy church banner construction, including 49 patterns, complete instructions, and tips for designing your own patterns.

Worship spaces can be enlivened using colorful banners that anyone can construct. This colorful and clear introduction to making banners provides advice on fabrics, design, colors, and construction for banners of all types and sizes. Determining banner size and shape, creating and placing letters and symbols, using color and contrast effectively, and picking fabrics and stitching options, and more are all included in this comprehensive volume.

Regardless of their skill level, readers can learn how and where to place words and use symbols, choose colors, and make basic arrangements. The book includes idea starters, helpful design solutions, and easy reference sections on appliqués, stitchery and gluing, fabrics, tassels, tabs, bells, finishings, and mountings. It also lists information on tools and materials, and how to enlarge or adapt patterns.

Patterns for seasonal, special event, and regular use can keep the church freshly decorated all year round."  Amazon description for 1998 The New Banner Book. The description tracks with the 1974 version posted here.

[Bought this for $1 at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, circa 2014.]