Leather Woman Pride Flag
Leather / Kink / Women's Subculture Flag ·
A purple recolor of the nine-stripe Leather Pride Flag, keeping the red heart "touching all 3 colors, as original." Tori Jones, a bootblack and leather artisan, designed it in June 2016, choosing purple as "a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community"; she sells it as merchandise with all profits to the Leather History Preservation Foundation. [1] A sibling of sheryl dee's 2003 Leather Girl Pride Flag, not its descendant: both recolor DeBlase's blue directly. NLA-Dallas records it as less widely adopted than the pink flag. [2]
Key facts
- Designer
- Tori Jones
- Created
- Created
- Documented record
- Created June 2016
- Aspect Ratio
- 1160:697 · as published
- Ratio Notes
- No production ratio is documented. The NLA-Dallas rendering is 1,160 by 697 pixels, about 5:3; the unrecorded-origin copy is 225 by 149, about 3:2. [2]
- Stripes
- 9
Status Variant
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
The documented reason is the choice of purple itself: a royal color representing her and other women in the leather community. [1]
Tori Jones designed the flag in June 2016 as a recolor of DeBlase's Leather Pride Flag. Her sales listing states the design keeps "the heart touching all 3 colors, as original but instead of blue, this flag has purple," purple being "a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community." [1]
Creators
The Creator
Tori Jones
Designer
Tori Jones (she/her) is a bootblack and leather artisan who makes bespoke leather goods, describing herself on her own profile as "Tori Jones Leatherworker, Artisan, Leather Woman, Bootblack/Leather care", listing her category as Artist and stating that she is available for commissions. [3] She sells the flag's design as merchandise through her own store, directing all profits to the Leather History Preservation Foundation, and takes commissions by email. [4][1] No fuller biography has been located. Her own link page describes her as "a bootblack, leather artisan who creates handmade bespoke leather items" and lists her Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts. [4]
Motivations
- Purple as "a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community" [1]
Stated inspirations
- Tony DeBlase's 1989 Leather Pride Flag, which the design recolors[1]
Attribution notes
Documented from her own sales listing, which is the closest thing to a designer's statement located: "Tori Jones has chosen purple as it is a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community. June 2016." The listing adds that all profits benefit the Leather History Preservation Foundation. [1] NLA-Dallas independently records the attribution in the same terms. [2]
Origin
The listing dates the design to June 2016. No debut event or first display has been documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Created
- Documented record
- Created June 2016; documented merchandise circulation
NLA-Dallas, surveying the community's flags, writes that "it does not appear to have been as widely adopted" as the Leather Girl Pride Flag, while noting the merchandise. [2] The merchandise line runs from shirts to pins, sold by the designer, with profits to the Leather History Preservation Foundation. [1]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Leather Pride Flag
The designer's own listing settles the derivation: "The design originated from the Leather Pride Flag designed by Tony DeBlase... instead of blue, this flag has purple." Purple replaces DeBlase's blue directly, so this is a sibling of sheryl dee's Leather Girl Pride Flag, not its descendant: two recolors of the same parent, thirteen years apart, each made by a woman for women in leather. The listing also specifies that "this design has the heart touching all 3 colors, as original." [1]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- Ancestor
- Leather Pride Flag
- This record
- Leather Woman Pride Flag
Colors & Symbolism
No published values. The two located renderings disagree on the purple: NLA-Dallas's drawing fills its purple bands with a mauve near #C881B6 and its heart with a red near #EC1B23, while the small unrecorded-origin copy uses a strongly violet purple. Each value describes one artifact; neither is a specification. [2]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 1160:697 · as published
- Ratio Notes
- No production ratio is documented. The NLA-Dallas rendering is 1,160 by 697 pixels, about 5:3; the unrecorded-origin copy is 225 by 149, about 3:2. [2]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 9
- Layout
- horizontal_stripes_with_emblem
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- black, purple, black, purple, white, purple, black, purple, black
- Additional Symbols
- red heart in the upper hoist canton
Described from the only copy held, a 225 by 149 pixel compressed image whose own origin is unrecorded. The purple stripes sample near #7F00FF at that size, which is not a sound basis for a value; the heart samples toward magenta, unreliably at this resolution.
Nine horizontal bands in the Leather Pride Flag's arrangement, with purple in place of that flag's blue and a red heart in the upper hoist canton. The designer specifies that "this design has the heart touching all 3 colors, as original". [1] No proportion has been published; the archive's standard production ratio is supplied.
Nine horizontal bands, black and purple alternating around a white centre, with a red heart in the upper hoist. The flag is Tony DeBlase's Leather Pride Flag of 1989 with purple substituted for its blue, which is how the designer describes it: "The design originated from the Leather Pride Flag designed by Tony DeBlase... instead of blue, this flag has purple." The heart is placed so that it touches all three colours, as in the parent flag. [1] Purple is the one element given a meaning of its own, "a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community". [1][2]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Sold as printed merchandise under the name Leather Woman Pride [4]
- Current Status
- Limited documented merchandise circulation
NLA-Dallas, surveying the community's flags, records that the Leather Girl Pride Flag is "the most common flag for female-identifying Leatherfolkx" and that this design "does not appear to have been as widely adopted", while noting that merchandise carrying it is available. [2]
Image Archive
Community rendering
Unattributed copy
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Previously shown in this archive as a "purple variant" of the Leather Girl Pride Flag, a framing this entry retires: it is a separately named design with its own documented designer, date and meaning. [1][2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 4 sources
- 1. Designer page Leather Woman Pride T-Shirt (designed and sold by ToriJones). Tori Jones. TeePublic. Accessed 2026-08-04
- 2. Organizations Community Flags: Leather Girl Pride. NLA-Dallas. NLA-Dallas NewsLeather. Accessed 2026-08-21
- 3. Primary statement Tori Jones (ms.tori.jones), profile. Tori Jones. Instagram. Accessed 2026-08-17
The designer's own profile, giving her pronouns, her self-description and her availability for commissions.
- 4. Designer page Tori Jones Leatherwork (Linktree and Instagram profile). Tori Jones. Linktree / Instagram. Accessed 2026-08-04
Image Sources
- Rendering
- NLA-Dallas's rendering, 1160 × 697
- The display image is NLA-Dallas's drawn rendering of Tori Jones's design, the highest-resolution source-traceable copy located; the designer's own merchandise artwork has not been retrievable. [2] · Credit: NLA-Dallas · nladallas.org · 1160 × 697Rights The design is Tori Jones's; the rendering is hosted by NLA-Dallas with no licence stated. Sale as merchandise does not grant reproduction rights.
- NLA-Dallas's rendering, 1,160 by 697 pixels, from the page that credits the design to Tori Jones. A drawn illustration with an outlined heart and unequal band depths rather than a production file; its purple is a mauve near #C881B6 and its heart red near #EC1B23, measured from this file only. [2] · Credit: NLA-Dallas · nladallas.org · 1160 × 697Rights Hosted by NLA-Dallas; no licence stated. Reproduced for identification of the design the entry documents, credited and linked.
- The 225 by 149 pixel copy of unrecorded origin that previously served as this entry's image. Its violet differs sharply from the NLA-Dallas rendering's mauve; too small and too compressed to ground colour values. · Credit: Origin unrecorded · 225 × 149 · origin unrecorded