Item: Apollo 11 beta cloth patch Roma Chemical presentation.
Size: 30.3 x 23 cm.
Manufacturer: Roma Chemical.

Description:

Owens Corning contracted out the printing of NASA's beta cloth patches to the Screen Print Corp. of Coventry Rhode Island. There the insignia were screen printed onto rolls of beta cloth using Roma Chemical Questral pigments.

These were then cut into 9" squares (or 5½" in the case of the ASTP patches) with the printed designs at the centers. The hand-drawn 'cut lines' for the edges of these squares are often visible on one or more sides of beta cloth patches, as can be seen in the example on the left.

The beta cloth patches were supplied to NASA in this form, and many were carried as souvenirs on missions without any further treatment.

In mid-2017 a large stock of Roma Chemical Apollo 11 patch presentations (over 250) was discovered and began to be offered on eBay.

Item: Apollo Beta cloth American flag patch

Size: 14 x 20 cm. (flag: 6.5 x 12.1 cm.).

Manufacturer: Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.

Description: After the fire of Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967, NASA worked with Owens-Corning and DuPont to develop beta cloth, a fireproof cloth of woven fiberglass coated with Teflon, as a replacement for the nylon outer layer of the Apollo/Skylab A7L space suit. This American flag is the rarer-smaller of the patches to find. The larger were also used on the Lunar Rover, whilst this is a patch that might of been applied to the shoulder area of the Apollo Space Suit.

Information source:

http://crewpatches.com/crewpatches_betacloth.shtml

Item: Apollo 11 Beta cloth mission patch
Size: 10.8 x 10.8 cm.
Manufacturer: Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.

Description: This patch corresponds to the second design variant without the black outlines of the lettering and Earth, thus avoiding some errors of misalignment during the production of the previous version.

This variant also presents a simplification of the details in the landmasses on the Earth and in the dark crater details on the lunar surface.

It's not clear when the design was changed but this variant is the one included in the complete Apollo project presentation piece created by Owens Corning in the mid 1970s and is also the version incorporated in the Owens Corning Apollo 11 lucites.

This particular patch in my collection seems to have been stitched by a previous owner for presentation purposes.

Information source:
http://crewpatches.com/crewpatches_betacloth.shtml