Sneaky Capes

a quilt (and fabric) minecraft mod to render custom cape textures hidden in the unused portions of the player's skin texture, avoiding the need (and dependency) of a 3rd party service to host the images.
note that the mod doesn't provide any cape textures itself, it only loads them from your skin texture!

to insert a cape texture into your skin, i recommend using Loom (a skin editor i made):

load your player's skin first using the "Load skin" dialog
shift+click the "Load skin" button to show the hidden "Insert cape from file: " button
insert the 64x32 pixel cape texture of your choosing
after the cape has been inserted, press the "Save image" button, save the file and then upload it as your skin at minecraft.net
any player using this mod will be able to see your custom cape. players not using this mod will see your account's actual cape (if any).

official Minecraft cape textures

for the official cape textures please see the Minecraft wiki page on Capes.
don't try to impersonate mojang employees with them.

Visuality/Cosmetica cape textures

these textures were created by PinkGoosik (i think) and are from the discontinued Cosmetica mod that was previously bundled with Visuality
both Cosmetica and Visuality were/are licensed under MIT
this collection includes various color capes, various pride flag designs, as well as the greyscale template files cape_layer1.png & cape_layer2.png

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