I'm impressed that you got such vibrant colours from Rit dye actually. Both what I have read and what I have experienced personally has left me avoiding using Rit for tie-dye at all. The Tulip kits are great, IMHO, they contain the fiber-reactive dyes which can be rather expensive to purchase from actual producers (there is one place just outside of my city, but I'd only be going there if I planned to set up a tie-dyed clothing business or something.)
I wonder if the difference is in the material? My experiences with Rit dyes have always been on cotton of varying thicknesses/thread counts.
The photos of my tie-dying from last summer don't do it much justice, but the one pair of pants I did had some very dark blue come out on them. It's a bit faded now from being out in the sun and me washing the pants a few times, but still rather obviously dark blue. And that's from a Tulip-brand fiber-reactive. Again, might be the material, and that dark blue is a separate bottle I picked up along with a kit (the kit contained turquoise, which I also used on the pants.)
I am very interested in your projects with this, and also in how they will weather over time! I think being a scarf rather than a pair of pants will help with fading, shouldn't need as much washing and all that. But I have no experience with tie-dyed silk anything. :) Or, again, Rit on silk.
Lovely, lovely work again! Sorry for my rambles, but believe it or not you're the only person I know right now who has taken up an interest in tie-dyeing. I have lots of friends who want to do a group tie-dyeing session with me, with t-shirts or something they find at home, but they are not terribly interested in the whole process like I am. :) I do hope to move onto silk, I want to start making tie-dye art. Seeing what I can do to combine batiking and tie-dye. Fun stuff!
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Date: 2010-03-05 02:19 am (UTC)I'm impressed that you got such vibrant colours from Rit dye actually. Both what I have read and what I have experienced personally has left me avoiding using Rit for tie-dye at all. The Tulip kits are great, IMHO, they contain the fiber-reactive dyes which can be rather expensive to purchase from actual producers (there is one place just outside of my city, but I'd only be going there if I planned to set up a tie-dyed clothing business or something.)
I wonder if the difference is in the material? My experiences with Rit dyes have always been on cotton of varying thicknesses/thread counts.
The photos of my tie-dying from last summer don't do it much justice, but the one pair of pants I did had some very dark blue come out on them. It's a bit faded now from being out in the sun and me washing the pants a few times, but still rather obviously dark blue. And that's from a Tulip-brand fiber-reactive. Again, might be the material, and that dark blue is a separate bottle I picked up along with a kit (the kit contained turquoise, which I also used on the pants.)
I am very interested in your projects with this, and also in how they will weather over time! I think being a scarf rather than a pair of pants will help with fading, shouldn't need as much washing and all that. But I have no experience with tie-dyed silk anything. :) Or, again, Rit on silk.
Lovely, lovely work again! Sorry for my rambles, but believe it or not you're the only person I know right now who has taken up an interest in tie-dyeing. I have lots of friends who want to do a group tie-dyeing session with me, with t-shirts or something they find at home, but they are not terribly interested in the whole process like I am. :) I do hope to move onto silk, I want to start making tie-dye art. Seeing what I can do to combine batiking and tie-dye. Fun stuff!