FORTISVEX District of Columbia (DC) Flag 4x6 Feet Polyester - Made in USA with Brass Grommets

A 4x6 foot flag is too big for a house bracket and needs ground-mounted hardware. In polyester, it's built for a flagpole that sees real wind rather than a sheltered porch.

This is the District of Columbia flag at 4x6 Feet (24 square feet) in polyester, 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 twenty four square feet, wind load starts to matter, and polyester holds up to it better than nylon at this size.

Specifications

• Size: 4x6 Feet
• Material: 100 percent two-ply spun polyester
• Heading: Heavy duty white, reinforced, an inch and a half wide
• Grommets: Two solid brass grommets with tooth washers
• Fly end: Four rows of lock stitching
• Printing: Dye-sublimated, penetrates through to the back
• Made in the United States

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