National/Cultural heritage pieces like this are always intriguing to look at, more so when an interesting spin is taken on them. The rough, tumble, and worn appearance of the work does a good job at expressing and accentuating the historical abuse that you and your kin have taken throughout history, and yet here this flag still is - still presenting the glory and pride of the old country even with all that's happened to it, as if to say "We've had it rough, but we're still here, and we can still shine." I guess coming from a country that was also ruled over by a foreign Imperial power I can understand the struggles and surmounting said troubles and continuing to exist today more than most, but that doesn't detract from the message conveyed and the execution. Most intriguing and most inspiring.