Getting the Best Results When Dyeing Fabrics
Getting the Best Results When Dyeing Fabrics
In the end, a serious quilter or fabric artist view of changing its fabric. But dyeing the fabric is not just dunking the dye bath. The best results come when you think ahead.
The end-use
Are you going to use the finished fabric to wear, or interior design? This affects not only your choice of fabric, but also in different colors or paints used. For example, if you want to use the finished fabric blouse, skirt or jacket, then your fabric, drapes well, take a wash, and take the colors and varnishes well. If you plan to use the cover art tissue that hangs on the wall, you can use any weight or tissue, and there is no need for high quality dyed fabric. Pre-washing in the hottest water the fabric cannot always be necessary to remove the sizing or finishing business is carried out by the manufacturer for reducing contamination.
Natural versus man-made fiber in
In general, natural materials (cotton, linen, silk or wool) it takes paint colors and better than synthetic fabrics (viscose, acetate, nylon, polyester, acrylic). That said, some tissues are other issues to consider. Lana does not tolerate temperature changes, and can be reduced. It also contains lanolin, which is boiled off (washed vigorously) without stain or seriously undermine the ability of dye to penetrate the fibers. If you want to fix the toner at high temperatures, you may have a problem with trying to heat iron nylon fabric, as can be dissolved.
Fabric Structure
If you put a tightly woven fabric and loosely woven cloth in the same dye bath the same amount of time, and heat set the fabric in the same way, the tightly woven fabric is going to look darker. Why? And 'more fibers per square centimeter and, therefore, take the toner density of the color is darker. The thickness of the fabric, the most colorful or painted, it sucks, so change the feel of the fabric and made more rigid. This also affects the availability of the fabric.
A mixture of a natural fiber with a synthetic fiber such as cotton and polyester blend, stain unevenly. The natural fibers take dye more rapidly than synthetic fiber.