I've been cutting my own cleaning patches from the Flannel sold at Walmart for a while now. I've always used the white flannel. Anyway, I went in today and it's gone up to $7.50 from $7, but they had most all of the colors on clearance for $5. I ended up picking up a really light yellow. Maybe closer to an off white. Now that I got to thinking about it though, I'm wondering if the colored flannel will work just as well. I also use these for rifles and use a copper cleaning solvent. I'm wondering if the cleaning solvent is going to react with the die in the fabric and then make the dye come out and have my bore full of the dye. Or is this a non concern? Does anyone use the colored flannel or is it best to stick to white?