Bellingham woman restores 200-year-old pirate flag

www.bellinghamherald.com: "It was truly the luck of the draw that brought Bonnijo Chervenock to her pirate flag and allowed her to save a rare piece of maritime history. As a second-year student at the Textile Conservation Centre in England’s Winchester School of Art, one of the class tests was to pick out an envelope that contained a description of a textile that needed repair. She opened her envelope and happily discovered that her assignment was a crumbling pirate flag that dated to the late 1700s...."