General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

shoulder flash

Patents

N/A

General Description

fabric & embroidery thread

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

7.5 cm

Width

6.5 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Forestry

Category

Fire fighting

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Northwest Territories

Period

Unknown

Canada

Uniform identification badges used by Canadian forestry and forest fire fighting personnel, specifically of the Northwest Territories. The Forest Management Division of that territory is responsible for managing forests, including the prevention, detection, monitoring & suppression of forest fires & employs ground crews, helicopters & fixed wing aircraft (Ref. 2).

Function

Identifying patches worn on the uniforms of territorial forestry personnel, affixed to a shirt or jacket.

Technical

An example of a machine embroidered fabric badge. For centuries embroidery hand been done by hand, but during the industrial revolution mechanization of the process began. Embroidery machines were designed by 1860, combining in a single machine handloom technology with the existing sewing machine technology, the lock-stitch. The automation was refined in the in the 1970s - early 1980s with automatic, electronically controlled custom embroidered machines developed in Japan. Instead of the instructions being coded on a continuous reel of paper or Mylar(r) tape containing x-y coordinate information in Binary, Fortran or other numeric code to control pantograph movement, the information is now digitized on computer disks. These machines also do the work flat instead of vertically which allows automatic colour changes (Ref. 1).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

embroidered black lettering reads "FOREST MANAGEMENT"

Missing

complete

Finish

red, green, yellow, blue, white, black

Decoration

embroidered polar bear in yellow & black edged triangle/ red leaves/ green trees/ black edging