FORTISVEX District of Columbia (DC) Flag 5x8 Feet Nylon - Made in USA with Brass Grommets

A 5x8 foot flag is a business flag. It goes on a thirty foot flagpole outside a dealership, a bank, a fire station, a church, a school. It also suits a homeowner whose flagpole is tall enough that a 4x6 foot flag would look lost on it.

This is the District of Columbia flag at 5x8 Feet (40 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 forty square feet this flag works hard, and it fails in public. A frayed tip on a business flagpole is visible from the road, which is the whole point of flying it.

Specifications

• Size: 5x8 Feet
• Material: 100 percent commercial nylon
• Fly end: Four rows of lock stitching
• Heading: Heavy duty white, reinforced, 2 inch
• Grommets: Two solid brass grommets, tooth washers
• Printing: Dye-sublimated, penetrates through to the back
• Made in the United States

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