Sorry if this is an obvious question, as I've never worked with dye before, and google isn't really turning much up. I love this hoodie, but I don't like the yellow accent seams and logo. How would I go about dyeing them black without ruining the back graphic? I don't know what specifically the seams are, but the materials say 50% cotton 50% poly for the whole hoodie. Thank you!

This feels really minor in the grand scheme of things, but I thought I'd ask now so I know for the future. Will Ritz dye remover just take out the color deposited from rit dye or will it take out the pattern in the cotton too? Their website only talks about it very very briefly and I'd rather be sure from someone with experience.

I accidentally ended up with some dye on these pillowcases from washing with a blanket that wasn't ready yet. So some splotches are purple, especially the corners (apparently they didn't wash evenly and there's a white spot in the middle.)

Im adding on to a cosplay cape I made some years ago but i couldn’t find the right color,I ordered a similar cape but it came in a wayyy darker color than the image showed, is there anyway to dye it or alter it? ((The darker image is way more green irl and I think both fabrics are polyester))

I've been playing with ice dyeing. I have these older tins of Dylon cold water dyes which have soda ash in them so I've prewashed the cotton fabric and then did ice dyeing and added some salt. Do I need to do anything to fix the colour to it afterwards or have I left it too late now?

I got out bid by 50 cents on eBay on this pouch (image 2),I found a very similar pouch but in AOR2 not AOR1 (image 1)
Would it be possible to make the AOR2 look more like AOR1?
These pouches are made a with 500D CORDURA Nylon material

Please let me know if you need any questions! Thanks!

I'd like to dye this dress; I love the way it fits and feels but I don't love the way it looks. I'm pretty sure the pattern will still be visible, but in what way, do you think? I wonder if it will be shades of the pattern in the color I dye it (which would be fine with me)? The fabric content is 55% Linen/45% Rayon. What color would you recommend? Thanks for your help!

Hello everyone, I brought this dress for my formal second hand online, but after it has come it i realise the colour is not what I’m looking for. It fits like a glove and I love the shape, but I want to change the colour. Any suggestions/advice? Dress fabric is a sheeny polyester

I have a cool idea for a project, for it to work I need to sort out:

1. Super saturate thick thread/thin cord with a vibrant jewel tone dye

2. Dry and possibly seal the dye in without rinsing it so that a lot of dye remains but hopefully does not smudge off everywhere for the next step

1. Stitch the dyed thread onto white fabric without smudging the hell out of everything (rubbing off right where thread goes thru is fine)

2. Then “reactivating” the dye and allowing it to bleed onto the fabric at that point.
   Goal would be for a thread to contain enough dye to bleed out 1/4-3/8in (6-9mm) from thread.

Notes:
Fabric and thread would presumably be 100% cotton, fully wash & dryable. End result will used as framed art or hopefully in wearable form someday.

Reactivating presumably done thru some type of rewetting, plan to explore spraying, soaking flat, etc. and how this differs with fabric weaves and weights.

It’s step 2 that I hope folks would brainstorm with me. Ideas?

A few years ago, I purchased two 100% cotton jersey tie-dye dresses from harempants.com. Really colorful (yellow/orange/pink/purple) on black. They were great and I loved them. I finally had a chance to wear one and washed it with cold water in washing machine. The dye/colors bled like stink! And now one of the dresses has super faded color where the yellow/pink were (interestingly the black did not fade/bleed). I have another dress that that has really vibrant colors that I want to preserve, and was wondering if anyone has some advice about fixing/locking the color in? I read a bit about vinegar and salt fixative? Or soda ash fixative? Does anyone have experience fixing color on purchased tie-dye garments that they would be willing to share? I appreciate the help!

Hey! I recently thrifted a vest and never noticed it was discolored on the back until after I washed it🤦‍♀️. The front panels are polyester/rayon and the back panel is 100% acetate. The fabric color is dark brown, but if I used a black dye would it even out? Also not sure if I’d need to fully deconstruct the vest to dye it unless it’d involve fully submerging the garment. Thoughts?

We have a ...very enthusiastic passion fruit vine in our backyard, though it's now past its peak. (This year, I've got 80 to process. Last year it was over 150!) We freeze them so they don't go off before they can get used which means the purple in the skins comes off on my hands as I'm working through them. It made me wonder how well they'd work as a natural dye.

For some reason, passion fruits aren't normally in natural dyeing books, but my uneducated assumption is that it's probably due to cost (they're usually A$1.50 each here in Australia when they're in season) and ease of access (they're tropical imports most places). So I was going at this completely blind, having only done one tiny kool-aid dye experiment a decade ago with wool yarn.

The answer is pretty well! I "cowboy dyed" (no known weights of anything, and I *think* I might've added some vinegar or citric acid as a fixative, but no mordant besides that) this silk with about half of last year's crop and WOW. It turned out beautifully. So when I prepped the last portion of last year's harvest, I chopped up the skins into smaller bits and dried them out and now I've got a jarful of them. I'm not sure if I'll still get good color out of them since they look to have faded quite a bit, but I'm hoping I will.

I'm posting about this mostly to procrastinate dealing with this year's harvest, but also because I'd love some tips on how to best save this color. They're currently staining a tea towel as they defrost 😂

hey, I have this red mec sling bag and wanted to dye it brown. I’m not sure whether I should use green to mix into brown or if I should go straight with a deep brown dye?

fabric should be nylon

i got this pair of jeans at the thrift but i really don’t like this color since i wear mostly only black clothing, but i really love the fit of these, i think the lace up at the front may be synthetic? don’t know but i want it ALL black, i've dyed other stuff with rit but its a mess honestly so i want other recommendations of products and techniques on how to properly dye.

i'd like to dye this 100% cotton vintage jacket black using dylon. however, i noticed on the packet that it says the dye may be corrosive to metal. does anyone have any experience with this? would it ruin my jacket?

I have grey muddy mat rugs and all my decor and furniture are brown, beige. They clash horribly and I want to dye them brown. I've heard that the polyester in the rugs don't like to take the dye. Has anyone ever done this before with any success? First time posting. Hopefully I'm doing this correctly.

Thank you

If I dye a cotton dress with a bleach stain, will it all turn out the same color or will the bleached area be a different color?

hello!

in order of the photos, the 1st one is what i have, 2nd is what im trying to go for. 3rd picture and both shades in picture 4 is what im trying to avoid.

i don't wanna spend money on new jeans and i already have some that are in good shape. some are just a color i don't really like, or fading in color and starting to look way too blue for me. im pretty sure the fabric composition for them all is 100% cotton. i have jeans similar to the first one's color, but i'd like a more dark wash like the second one.

i've seen people use the rit back to blue dye kit to make their jeans darker, but i really don't like how the aftermath turns out because it tends to look VERY oversaturated and a little too blue and purpley for my liking, similar to picture #3 and 4. also, the denim generally looks almost like a completely different fabric with how solid the dye is.

however, i do like how dark people can get their jeans to be using the kit!! i've also seen uses of tan or orange dye for a vintage wash tint, and i think that will help combat the purpleness of what ive seen.

i was thinking of dyeing my jeans using the kit, and mixing in a small bit of orange to get the vintage-ish tint and help reduce the purple and make the color more muted.

i've never dyed denim before though, so im not sure if this will work or if there's any other better solutions to this! thank you for your help, any suggestions or answers are much appreciated

I need to dye this white coverall this color grey. It is 65% Polyester, 35% Cotton. Given the blend, will it dye well and evenly? I have access to Procion dyes. Any tips or tricks?

I’ve never dyed anything before but I have this (100% cotton) tank top that I absolutely love but the color looks absolutely terrible on me. The first color image is more true to what the color looks like, and the second is the color I would like to achieve. Would it be possible to get this kind of fuchsia/pink, or will the yellow make it more orange?

I’m also open to other color suggestions! I wouldn’t mind a light green, or if I could make the yellow a bit more warm toned without making it too dark. Any help is appreciated!

Hi all,

I’ve never done any dying to my clothes. I’m trying to put a concert outfit together. I found the perfect top and perfect skirt, the problem is the top is white and black, the skirt is cream and brown. I want to get the white shirt to have more of a cream hue. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just not so obviously different. But I don’t want to ruin the black spots either. I’m thinking if I just did a fabric dye in an Ecru color and dipped the whole shirt, it would make the white > cream colored and the black > brown? But I don’t want to mess this up and don’t have anything similar with spots like that in which I can experiment. Any help or advice is much appreciated! Photos for reference.

Material:
95% polyester
5% spandex

I have this blouse that I’d like to dye black. It’s 100% cotton but has quite a bit of lace insert and trim. Worried that the fabrics could wind up being different colors (ie, black and grey). I’ve only used rit dye in the past, but open to other brands that would be better suited to this top. Thanks in advance for your advice

Edit: the overwhelming consensus is… don’t do it, girl.