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Subject: Red is the hardest (along with black) to get a true color using dyes

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Cora

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Date Posted: 20:23:28 06/30/09 Tue
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In reply to: Twirlersmama 's message, "dye trim for dress, Can it be done, its 100% polyster.." on 12:31:47 06/28/09 Sun

Whenever possible you should order your fabric/trims in those colors, but some have had luck using procion dyes.

Rit dye comes in red and black so you'd think that it's possible with those as well. I never really tried given the testimony of others. But I have heard that using several boxes of red will achieve brighter colors.

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Alyssa
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Date Posted: 00:05:28 07/03/09 Fri
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Procion dyes are fiber reactive dyes-- they are for natural fibers only-- cotton, linen, rayon, silk. Any color you get from them on a synthetic is just staining.

To color synthetic trims red, I would thin the right shade of red acrylic paint with a little water, paint on with a brush, repeat.

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