FORTISVEX District of Columbia (DC) Flag 8x12 Feet Nylon - Made in USA with Rope and Thimbles

An 8x12 foot flag is institutional. Ninety six square feet goes on a forty to fifty foot flagpole outside a civic building, a campus, a large commercial site. Nobody buys this size by accident.

This is the District of Columbia flag at 8x12 Feet (96 square feet) in nylon, made in the United States and finished with a sewn rope and plated steel thimbles.

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.

Six rows of lock stitching on the fly end, and the corners are zig zag stitched rather than run straight, because a straight seam at a corner can be worked open by wind over a season.

Specifications

• Size: 8x12 Feet
• Material: 100 percent commercial nylon
• Fly end: Six rows of lock stitching, zig zag stitched corners
• Heading: Full-length sewn nylon rope with two plated steel thimbles
• Attachment: Rope and thimbles, no grommets
• Printing: Dye-sublimated, penetrates through to the back
• Made in the United States

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