Description
Y faner — the flag
Two dragons fought under a mountain, and the red one won
The oldest story told about her is a strange one. King Vortigern tried to raise a fortress in the mountains of Gwynedd, and every night the walls fell down. A boy told him why: two dragons lay sleeping in a pool beneath the foundations, one red and one white, and their struggle shook the ground. The pool was dug out, the dragons broke free, and the red drove off the white — which the boy read as a sign that the Britons would in the end outlast the Saxons.
She was carried by the ancient Britons, flown by Cadwaladr of Gwynedd, and marched to Bosworth Field in 1485 under Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke — the white-over-green field behind her is Tudor livery. The flag itself, astonishingly, was only made official in 1959, by which time the dragon had already been a Welsh emblem for a thousand years.
And there is no single official drawing of her: every maker draws their own, which is why the dragon on one Welsh flag rarely quite matches the next. This one is ours.
Designed and test-printed in Swansea.
Four picture sheets — red, black, green, white
Base board with the 3DFLO mark on the back
Border ring with the Celtic plait, moulded
Weighted stand the frame drops into
Illustrated instructions, checklist and licence
If you can print a 256 mm square, you can print all of it. Everything lies flat.
252 × 164 mm
0.8 mm thin
none, anywhere
0.4 · 0.20 mm



