The Pride Flag Colorways Project

Hey, indie dyers! I've been doing lots of color tests for Pride flag colorways lately, and I'd like to offer up my color recipes to any dyers that would like to use them. I ask that, if you use these recipes:​

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1. Please credit the Pride Flag Colorways Project. When you promote your work, please link to this page or use the hashtag #pridecolorways.

2. Please donate 5% or more of your proceeds to an organization that serves the LGBTQ+ community in a way that's inclusive of transgender people and people of color. (There are so many great organizations out there, but I'd like to shout out the LGBT National Help Center, if you're looking for a great option.)

3. If you want to, please suggest Pride flags to add to the list, and/or add your recipes! Drop me a note at jen@626yarns.com to contribute.

4. If folks use these colors, I'd be super happy to promote their work. If you'd like me to link to your items, please let me know!

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A few notes about the recipes and photos below:

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1. Part of Pride, to me, is about celebrating all the myriad ways people can express gender and sexuality; please don't take this list as comprehensive at all. This list will, ideally, grow and evolve all the time. Many flags and colors aren't totally standardized either (seriously; I saw a fight on Wikimedia Commons over a shade of purple that devolved into name-calling). I've tried to match Pride flags I have at home and/or images I've found online, but you could have tons of fun mixing and matching the shades you like! I'm posting these as a starting point that I hope will be helpful, but definitely nothing "authoritative" or "definitive".

2. I'm also no expert on Pride flags; if you're willing and able to educate me about any potential issues or inaccuracies that you see, I would be so grateful to hear from you (jen@626yarns.com!). I know some flags grow controversial as issues of inclusivity and symbolism arise.

3. I use Depth of Shade (DOS) to note how much dye powder I'm using for a given weight of yarn. 1% DOS refers to an amount of dye powder that's 1% of the amount of yarn being dyed, by weight (e.g. 1g of dye for 100g of yarn). Beginning dyers: to dye 1% DOS, I typically mix a 1% dye stock (say, 1g of dye powder for 100 ml of water), and then use the same weight of dye stock to yarn. It's way easier to measure diluted dye stock precisely than it is to measure teeny tiny amounts of dye powder accurately.

4. Hopefully, I can expand someday, but for now, all dyes are Jacquard Acid Dyes, and the yarn samples in my photos are all dyed on sock yarn that's 75% superwash merino, 25% nylon.

5. A few of these are still blank, as of this writing, but I hope to fill them in soon, like over the course of this week (5/3/21). Nailing the right shades is tough sometimes!