Wool Yarn Skeins in a Basket
FluxWool Yarn Skeins in a Basket is a Flux.1 dev prompt for indie dyer and craft-shop imagery at 4:5. Asking for traditional twisted hanks rather than balls is what makes it recognisable to knitters as hand-dyed yarn.
Last tested: July 2026 with Flux Flux.1 dev
Part of the Flux prompt library · see more cozy prompts .
Prompt
A shallow woven basket of hand-dyed wool yarn in muted heather tones, oatmeal, sage, dusty rose, slate and mustard, each skein twisted in the traditional hank so the ply and the soft halo of the fibre are clearly visible, one hank partly unwound with a single strand trailing over the rim, wooden knitting needles resting across the basket, soft window light from the left, pale linen surface beneath, shallow depth of field, no labels, no bands, no text
Settings
- Model
- Flux Flux.1 dev
- Aspect ratio
- 4:5
- Steps
- 28
- CFG scale
- 3.5
How to use this prompt
Knitters read the format before the colour. A twisted hank is how indie dyers sell yarn; a machine-wound ball is how a supermarket sells it, and Flux defaults to balls unless you name the hank. The other essential phrase is "the soft halo of the fibre" — without it wool renders as smooth plastic tubing with no fuzz at the edges, which instantly reads synthetic. Stay in muted heather tones for the craft-market look; saturated primaries push the whole basket toward cheap acrylic. Leave the bands off, since printed yarn labels are small, numerous and always garbled.
Variations to try
- Single hero hank on a pale wood surface with a swatch knitted from it lying alongside
- Work-in-progress scene: needles mid-row on a half-knitted scarf with the basket behind
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What to do next
For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Wool Yarn Skeins in a Basket",
"prompt": "A shallow woven basket of hand-dyed wool yarn in muted heather tones, oatmeal, sage, dusty rose, slate and mustard, each skein twisted in the traditional hank so the ply and the soft halo of the fibre are clearly visible, one hank partly unwound with a single strand trailing over the rim, wooden knitting needles resting across the basket, soft window light from the left, pale linen surface beneath, shallow depth of field, no labels, no bands, no text",
"model": "Flux",
"model_version": "Flux.1 dev",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "4:5",
"steps": 28,
"cfg": 3.5
},
"style_tags": [
"cozy",
"photorealistic"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"product-photography",
"pinterest-pins"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/flux/wool-yarn-skeins-in-a-basket/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
