Probably a stupid question.

[iamshadow]

What's 'colorway'?

I've seen the term bandied about on knitting comms, and on Ravelry, but I can't find anything that says exactly what it is, specific to knitting/yarn. I did try Googling, but none of the top hits were clear.

Can anyone give me an explanation?

Comments

[kuri]

I've always thought of it as the gradient of colours in a variegated yarn. (I.e. if a hank of yarn is dyed orangey at one end and reddish at the other you'd have an orange-red colourway, but it would probably have a cutesy name, like Marigold, or something)