This has not gone well.
Firstly I confused my flags. The one from the WWII ship is not pink. It sits folded on my shelf and despite being quite worn the colours are just fine and it will be flying for Remembrance.
The pink one is, I think, from the British Embassy and is clearly of dubious heritage, particularly insofar as colour fastness is concerned.
After some considerable effort I managed to obtain the local equivalent of Persil Bio as recommended by the man from Cambridge.
It shifted the colour alright. All the b***** colour. Now rather than the white bits being vaguely pink they are bright red whereas the red bits are slightly less red and the blue bits are a fairly nasty purple-y colour.
It is still soaking wet and lying in a bath full of water, so I am contemplating the next step. I'm fairly sure that letting it dry would be bad.
Suggestions welcome, as long as they're better than the last lot.
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