{"title":"Map Accessories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWhat turns a map into a record\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA wooden map is decoration until something is added to it. The moment a pin goes into a country, it stops being a picture of the world and becomes a record of yours, and that is the only difference between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything in this collection does that job, and each does it differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich pin for which job?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA flag names a country. It is the obvious marker and the one most people start with, and it works because it needs no explanation to a visitor standing in front of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA plain pin marks a spot rather than a nation, which is what you need for cities. Three pins in France say Paris, Lyon and Biarritz; one French flag says only France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlanes mark routes. A line of them across an ocean reads as a journey, and it fills the empty water that a map of visited places otherwise leaves blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost people end up using two of the three.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes ours different?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things. Our flag pins arrive pressed into printed cards with the country named under every flag, organised by section – not loose in a box where you have to recognise Kiribati by sight. And the plain markers are wood: round, red and square heads in the same material as the map they go into, rather than plastic or metal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wooden-world-maps\"\u003emaps\u003c\/a\u003e are not pre-drilled, so any pin goes exactly where you choose – a city, a coastline, a place with no hole waiting for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich marker for which finish?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur maps run from near-white birch to almost black, and the markers read differently against each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed carries against every finish. White planes are strongest on the Dark and Graphite maps and subtlest on the pale ones. Natural and gold-toned pins are the quiet option, staying closest to the map's own palette. Printed flags read against everything, since they carry their own colour.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"punaises-drapeaux-du-monde-291-pieces","title":"291 national flag pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEvery flag named on the card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred and ninety-one flags, each printed on a domed pin head and each labelled with its country underneath. That labelling is the part that matters: without it you are hunting for Kiribati among two hundred and ninety small circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cards are organised in sections – countries of the world, then the states of the USA, the provinces of Canada, the states of Australia – with each section titled, so a flag goes back to a findable place as easily as it came out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePins stay in the card until you use them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey arrive pressed into printed kraft cards rather than loose in a box. Take out the ones you need and the rest stay ordered, named and findable a year later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is a practical difference rather than a packaging one. A traveller uses a handful of flags at a time, and a box of unsorted pins becomes unusable the moment it is tipped out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow many you will actually use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFewer than you think. Unless you have visited half the world, you will place a few dozen at most, so the set is not a consumable – it is a reference you draw from as you travel, over years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe countries you have not been to are the point of the other two hundred and sixty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFitting them to the map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pin is a steel point that pushes into plywood by hand, anywhere you choose – our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wooden-world-maps\"\u003emaps\u003c\/a\u003e are not pre-drilled, so a flag is never limited to someone else's idea of where the holes should be. On the layered 3D maps it goes into the country itself; on the 2D maps, through the flat panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing before you order: on the smallest map sizes some countries are too small to take a pin of this diameter without covering their neighbours. On the S format the flags work for larger countries only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e291 flag pins on printed cards, in a kraft sleeve with a world map on the cover. It is a gift as it arrives, with no wrapping needed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256690327683,"sku":"CWPI01","price":29.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/pins2.jpg?v=1780866684"},{"product_id":"punaises-avions-45-pieces","title":"Decorative plane pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eForty-five planes on pins\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhite aircraft folded like paper darts, 2.8 cm long, mounted on steel points. They mark a route rather than a place: a line of planes across an ocean reads as a flight, where a row of flags reads as a list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-five is enough to trace several journeys across a large map, with spares for the trips you have not taken yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat they do that flags do not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA flag says you were somewhere. A plane says how you got there. Used together the map gains a second layer: destinations in flags, connections in aircraft, and the empty ocean between them stops being empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also work where flags cannot. There is no flag for a stopover, a long-haul route or a place you flew over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe white is deliberate\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlain white against a stained wooden map is the highest contrast available without introducing another colour. On the Dark and Graphite finishes they read from across a room; on the pale Light and Amber they are subtler and closer to relief than to marking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-five aircraft on steel pins, supplied in a clear box. They push into plywood by hand and can be removed and repositioned as routes change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256692916355,"sku":"CWPI05","price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/H35b926f6c5964d07a241145a8ccd32abJ.jpg?v=1780866726"},{"product_id":"punaises-carrees-en-bois-12-pieces","title":"Square wooden thumbtacks, 12 pcs.","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCubes rather than domes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePale natural wood cut into small cubes and mounted on steel points, supplied in a clear box. Unfinished and unstained, so they sit closest in tone to our Light and Amber maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe flat top is the difference. A domed pin catches light as a highlight; a cube catches it as a plane, which reads as a small architectural object rather than as a bead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere they suit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaps in pale finishes, where a gold or red marker would jump forward. Against Light or Amber these almost disappear until you are close, and then they read as intentional rather than as pins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also match unfinished wood elsewhere in a room – shelving, frames, a plywood desk – in a way that a stained or painted marker does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBeyond the map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCork boards, plan walls, studio pinboards. The square head grips paper better than a round one, since there is more surface pressing down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693014659,"sku":"CWPI03","price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Screenshot-2023-07-02-at-10.42.21-PM.png?v=1780866728"},{"product_id":"punaises-rouges-en-bois","title":"Decorative red wood pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA star cut through each one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-five red wooden pins, teardrop-shaped, each with a small star pierced right through the head so the surface behind shows through it. They are the only marker in this range with a shape rather than a dot or a flag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is the colour that carries furthest across our finishes, from the palest Light to the near-black Graphite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people use them for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarking a category rather than a place. Red for where you are going next, plain wood for where you have been. Red for family, plain for work. The distinction is yours; the point is that two different markers let a map carry two kinds of information at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsed alone on a large map, forty-five is enough for a lifetime of highlights without covering it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe shape matters at distance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA round pin becomes a dot from four metres away. This one keeps its outline, and the pierced star catches the colour behind it, which is what makes it visible from across a room where a plain marker is not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693047427,"sku":"CWPI04","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Hec34117d5e9f4fdea44bb857d6751b38e.png?v=1780866729"},{"product_id":"punaises-rondes-en-bois","title":"Decorative round wooden pins","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe plain option, and the quietest\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall wooden balls, one centimetre across, on steel points, finished in a warm gold-brown close to the tone of stained birch. No printing, no flag, no shape – a dot on the map and nothing more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause they are wood in a wood tone, they stay closer to the map's own palette than any printed or painted marker can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhen a plain pin is the right one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlags identify a country. Plain pins mark a spot, which is what you want for a city rather than a nation: three pins in France say Paris, Lyon and Biarritz, where one French flag says only France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey also suit anyone who wants the map to stay a decorative object. A wall of flags is a record; a scatter of small wooden dots is texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA hundred is a lot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnough to mark every city on a lifetime of travelling, and enough to share. The count exists because plain pins get used in numbers that flags do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBeyond the map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey work on cork, softboard and photo walls exactly as they do on plywood, so what is left over does not go to waste.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693080195,"sku":"CWPI02","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/98f6fd326618dc4f58eafdbd89c0803a.jpg?v=1780866730"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/collections\/pins.jpg?v=1789316547","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/collections\/map-accessories.oembed","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}