the far righton side, and there's a much lighter blue that then compresses the far right end of the flag. back in the 1940's, a very who-meaning group of people are the textile conservatives of their day decided this poor, tattered flag needed to be fixed and stabilized. their method of doing that was to sell the remaining -- so the remaining flag onto a backing that approximated the color of the original flag, then to run the entire thing back and forth to a sewing machine many, many times. we know the process is very invasive. they punched holes in the flag as they were doing all of that stitching, which is particularly problematic on the handsewn portion, where the needle was passing through paint. nowadays, we would remove all of the sewing machines from the flag as well as to remove the backing fabric to which it had been attached, because we don't want the blue modern fabric to be possibly staining or covering the back of this virginia state field, or any portions of the original flag itself. this is a very painstaking process, and this is one level of conservation that we will act