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Heroic Knight
 
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| Right i've just tryed to dye some cotton material from a clay earth kinda brown to blue, first attempt was with the Dylon cold dye. Didn't go to well too much material not enough bucket space lead to localised tye dying. The second attempt was much better i used the Dylon Prewash/Anti-Dye thing to remove the old dye and it brought the whole thing to a cream kinda colour then used the washinmachine dye from them and to be fair its flipping good, where there were a few patches still of the first attempt it covered right over and a very strong colouring of blue thoughout , very simple in all didnt even need the rubber gloves it surgests. It only works on naturals not man made and not wool.
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| Be warned that if you use the washing machine dye in the machine, you will need to wash what you've dyed to get out any excess (unless you intend to hand wash every time) and you will often need to run the machine empty on a hot cycle to clean the excess dye out of the machine as well. And that's with the pound of table salt (which you can buy in big bags in any supermarket) to fix the dye. hth
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Heroic Knight
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| Yer got to wash out the machine tonight was getting late lastnight thought the guys downstairs might get a bit niffed. The dye i got though didnt require any sort of fixing it must have had somthing in it already.
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Last time I machine dyed, I ran the cycle with the Dye, ran a second cycle without dye but with powder, took the cloth out and ran another cycle......I still ended up with dye getting in the clothes in the next wash, but I wear mainly black so it was only the lables that went pink (it was red dye)
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If you are dyeing natural fibres then use Procion dyes and add salt (to help fix) in with the powder. Make sure the fabric is soaked through first to accept the dye.
If you are dyeing man made fabrics (fabrics with plastic in them) then use Disperse dyes with salt again
They are the best and cheapest ways to dye fabric by far
www.neilhughes.co.uk
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