FORTISVEX District of Columbia (DC) Flag 2x3 Feet Nylon - Made in USA with Brass Grommets

A 2x3 foot flag is the size you fly where a 3x5 foot flag would be too much. A boat transom. The side of an RV. A garden flagpole. A wall bracket on a narrow porch where a bigger flag would brush the siding every time the wind turned.

This is the District of Columbia flag at 2x3 Feet (6 square feet) in nylon, made in the United States and finished with brass grommets.

Built to the 1938 design

The District of Columbia flag was adopted by Congress on October 15, 1938, following a design competition run by the District Flag Commission. Three red five-pointed stars sit above two horizontal red bars on a white field. The design is an armorial banner, drawn directly from the coat of arms of George Washington's family, documented in England as early as the fourteenth century.

Unlike a state flag, the District's design was never written into a statute the way California's or Texas's was. Congress settled it by resolution after a 1938 commission selected artist Charles A.R. Dunn's proposal. There is no dimensional code to quote, which is why this listing does not carry a statute block the way our state flags do.

A common myth holds that the three stars represent the three branches of government. They don't. They are heraldic mullets, lifted from a five-hundred-year-old English family crest that predates the United States entirely.

We reproduce that design faithfully, in the standard outdoor flag sizes the industry uses. Read more about the district's founding and its flag on our blog: July 16, 1790: How Washington, D.C. Was Founded.

At six square feet the fly end still cracks, and more often than you would think, since a small flag usually flies low and close to a building where the air is turbulent rather than clean. Four rows of lock stitching on the fly end answers that.

Specifications

• Size: 2x3 Feet
• Material: 100 percent commercial nylon
• Fly end: Four rows of lock stitching
• Heading: Heavy duty white, reinforced, 1-1/2 inch
• Grommets: Two solid brass grommets
• Printing: Dye-sublimated, penetrates through to the back
• Made in the United States

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