Add color to your clothes

Has your clothing lost its vibrant color, or do you want to achieve a completely different shade? With fabric dyes, you can give your clothes and other fabric items new, vibrant colors. Fabric dyes allow you to refresh your wardrobe, revive a beloved garment, or enhance existing colors in the fabric.

The resulting color shade depends on 3 factors:

1. FABRIC TYPE

• Cotton, linen, and viscose will dye to a full color.
• Polyester/cotton and polyester/viscose blends will dye to a slightly lighter shade.
• Wool, silk, polyester, acrylic, nylon fabrics, as well as fabrics with special finishes (e.g., dry-clean only fabrics) cannot be dyed with this dye.

2. FABRIC QUANTITY

• One dye packet can dye up to 600g of dry-weighed fabric (e.g., long pants, bath towel, cover) to full vibrancy, or up to 1.2 kg (e.g., duvet) to a lighter shade.
• Using several packets simultaneously, larger quantities of material can be dyed to a full tone, e.g., with 2 packets for 1200g (e.g., duvet) or 3 packets for 1800g (e.g., curtains).

3. ORIGINAL FABRIC COLOR

• The final fabric shade depends on the original color and its structure (for example, blue dye on yellow fabric will result in green).
• One saturated color shade can be overdyed to another (or overdyed to a lighter shade) using DYLON PRE-DYE, which lightens the fabric before dyeing, allowing for a wider range of color possibilities.
• The principles of color mixing apply, e.g., blue dye on red fabric will result in a purple shade.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Weigh the dry fabric to ensure you have enough dye.
2. Wash the fabric thoroughly, even if new, to remove any stains or invisible chemical coatings.
3. The fabric should not have been previously washed with fabric softener.
4. Wearing rubber gloves, empty the contents of the packet into the metal detergent drawer of the washing machine (not the powder/softener compartment!).
5. Add 500g of salt, pouring it over the dye powder (500g is needed for 1 dye packet).
6. Turn the garment inside out.
7. Place the damp, unfolded fabric/garment into the washing machine.
8. Run a 40°C cotton cycle (do not use "pre-wash", "economy" or "half-load" cycles).
9. Once finished, add laundry detergent (to the designated compartment) and run another 40°C cotton cycle.
10. Remove the fabric/garment from the washing machine, add laundry detergent, and run an empty washing machine on a 40°C cycle to clean it.
11. Dry the fabric/garment, avoiding direct heat or sunlight.

This dye does not damage the washing machine and will not affect subsequent washes.

USEFUL TIPS

1. Dye in washing machines where loading is from the side (not top-loading).
2. Do not dye in public laundromats.
3. To prevent the laundry from bunching up, which can cause uneven dyeing, dye an amount of laundry that does not exceed half of the washing machine's maximum capacity at one time.
4. Do not use more than 3 packets of dye at one time.
5. The dye may not cover stains, faded areas, or bleach marks.
6. The dyed fabric should be removed from the washing machine immediately after it finishes running.
7. In case there is a little dye left in the machine after dyeing, pour a small amount of bleach into the metal detergent drawer, add laundry detergent to the designated compartment, and run an empty machine on a 40°C cycle.
8. After dyeing, for the first few washes, it is recommended to wash the dyed garments separately or with other similarly colored clothes to completely remove any dye residue.
9. Polyester seams will not dye.

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