r/dyeing • • 12h ago

How do I dye this? Dyeing into dark red (wine)

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Hey! I just got this dress from thift shop and just thinking if its possible to dye it darker like red. I just found out rit dye color remover but unsure if needed for this case.

Anyone got any good advise?

The frabrics are

Outer: polyester 95%, elastane 5%

Lining: polyester 95%, elastane 5%

Thanks in advance!

Edit: typo on percentage


r/dyeing • • 5h ago

How do I dye this? help tinting these acrylic/plastic totes?

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i wanted to find these in a pink for a friend. i'm convinced they don't make them, so now i'm trying to see if i can dye the clear ones i have leftover to be a pink tint

the bins are going to be used heavily and need to be absolutely certain that the colour won't leach off onto any hands or the items inside the box!

the listing states both acrylic and clear plastic as the material but i'm not 100% on how to identify if that's true

any help or advice is appreciated! thank you!


r/dyeing • • 4h ago

General question How to prevent splotchy results.

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I immersion dyed this pair of pants and while I don't hate the results, in the future I want to avoid garments looking like this and instead have a uniform color. How can I get more solid coverage when immersion dyeing?


r/dyeing • • 2h ago

How do I dye this? I want a darker shade

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So here is my problem, I have this silk/viscose blend and I a trying to get the color of the lys flower on the left but no matter how much dye I add each try, it simply does not darken.

I am wondering how to, if possible to fix that.


r/dyeing • • 5h ago

How do I dye this? dharma color help :)

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hi! i have used dharma trading co fiber reactive procion dye and loved the result, so am hoping to use the same type of dye again.

these pants are 100% cotton and i want them to be deep red!! its okay that the thread will still be orange

im not so good with color theory and would love suggestions what exact color to use for this !


r/dyeing • • 9h ago

How do I dye this? Is oxygen bleach the same as regular bleach when it comes to staining?

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I know you get a lot of bleach questions and I have read old posts and now know dyeing over a bleach stain usually doesn’t work, but I’m just wondering if anyone can help me out re. oxygen bleach (Oxi Action powder). Is it the same thing in terms of how the ‘stain’ works by the time you’ve ruined an item of clothing with it? I don’t know what exactly happened here but I think my mum left concentrated oxi action slurry on the front for many many hours. It’s taken on that characteristic pink tinge of bleaching but unlike a normal bleach bleach stain the edges are very diffuse. I bought a black machine dylon, but the jumper is 67% polyester and 33% cotton on the body (and different amounts on the ‘rib’ - not sure if that means stretchy cuffs/bottom, and also the pocket) so wouldn’t be expecting it to go black. I had hoped that between the existing marl and the new grey/black it would disguise it though? I don’t care exactly what colour it ends up although I really liked the marl.

Would I be better trying to use the colour stripper stuff on it all first, or getting a specific poly dye, or both? Or completely bleaching it back to white and then dying, or would that be impossible and just fry the material? I don’t really have anything to lose with the sweatshirt now, but don’t really want to spend nearly the cost of replacing it on dye that doesn’t even work anyway. I already have the dylon though. I definitely don’t want to tie dye it (not that I don’t love tie dye but not for this!).


r/dyeing • • 5h ago

How do I dye this? Would dye work on this?

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Thinking of purchasing but don’t like it in white and wondering how it would dye. Fabric makeup is: 85% Livaeco™ Viscose, 15% Nylon.


r/dyeing • • 4h ago

I made this! My massive low water immersion dyeing project

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