You can’t dye 100% Polyester! But we have seen sustainable results, from mixed textiles (EG: Small amounts of Polyester and Acyclic Composition) You can of course mix these dyes (and being liquid, its ever so easy to do,) and achieve some amazing shades! This is quite simply, one of those products that will impress you time and time again!
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There are quite a few different ways to use the Rit Dye in a Washing Machine... Below are two (Techniques) that we have tried and they worked well for us...
Place the textile to be dyed in the washing Machine Drum. We recommend giving it a quick wash with a biodegradable washing powder, if you don’t want to do this, then just wet the textile. Using salt is a personal preference when machine dyeing.. here we explain why one might want to use it, or perhaps NOT! - Salt (tries/helps) to break down the molecule content of the given fibre, its particularly susceptible to the absorbency of that fibre and will try and react to create enzymes. Not a bad thing you ponder! Indeed, but unless your lab dyeing and a real professional at this, you could just destroy the fibres compound and that's a given when you pull your dyed textile out of the machine and its quite patchy! So, the choice is yours.
Anyway back to the dying...We presume that you weighed your fabric and worked out its dye to ratio content. Set the machine to the Hottest setting you dare (40 Degrees would be your absolute minimum!) Your fabric is inside the machine NICE AND WET and the drum door is open...
Now 1st Technique...
Your kettle is boiled and your old saucepan is ready.. mix 1 litre of boiled water per 1 full bottle of dye, when it looks good, in the drum it goes (and salt?!?)....get your machine started (NO-PRE WASH) and then sit on the floor facing the machine, is great fun watching it all happen. When its done, don’t get too excited and open the drum door yet... Your need to wash the textile again with the biodegradable powder. A quick wash at 30 degrees should do it and then your done!
2nd Technique...
The object here is to get (HOT) water to the liquid dye as quick as possible, you could (and we have done it,) simply add the dyes contents straight into the drum (BUT NOT DIRECTLY ONTO THE FABRIC) and then follow as per the 1st Technique.
We imply or commit to nothing when offering these techniques. We simply offer our opinions and they should definitely not be taken as definitive: Please also read
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