How to fabric dye?

Post by Kim of Beehive Art

We had been excited if the land of Nod asked united states to explore the look opportunities for his or her Coloring Book duvet. I truly love the sweet hand attracted design by Kimberly Ellen Hall at nottene.net and knew that nevertheless I made the decision to embellish it, it must be an enjoyable activity for young ones and colorful. Because of the kiddos’ input, I made the decision to make use of brilliant and strong material dye, a well liked method used at Beehive ART.

With summer time coming, here is the perfect project to do with your kids. You are able to work outside from the picnic dining table or yard, making it inside sunshine to dried out. Because our weather condition, we worked indoors on a covered table.

Materials you’ll need:

I prefer the Jacquard Procion dye, it comes in dozens of colors and has great saturation. Some goes a very long way when you opt to make use of them, buy a bag of soft drink ash. Soda ash is a mild alkali bye fixer required for activation and establishing the dye. It does sound complicated, however it isn’t. *If you don’t use the fixer, your dye will wash out. If you choose the system, the dye, soft drink ash, squirt containers and training includes. I have tried personally this system lots of times and think it’s great.

1. Immerse the duvet in soft drink ask until it really is entirely over loaded.
2. Put the dye in squirt containers and/or droppers that way you have even more control over the dye. We utilized blue, yellowish, orange, green and green dye. I think if I performed this once more, i would just use two colors. But I was using a small grouping of children and then we went for this!
3. Dye away! We place little drops of color occasionally, and believed it absolutely was enjoyable to color each image an unusual color (whale – blue, alligator -green, hot air balloon- green ). It had been actually enjoyable viewing the fabric change plus the children had fun choosing the repeated photos on fabric and coloring all of them in.Soon the whole duvet ended up being colored in. We tried to leave some areas white / uncolored, but that turned out to be somewhat challenging. It absolutely was a good research in shade and shade mixing. Also it ended up being fascinating for people to watch the piece become more active.
4. Let your work of art sleep. The dye needs twenty four hours to stimulate in to the textile therefore I left it level up for grabs to dry.
5. After 24 hours, wash in cold-water. Pop it in the dryer or range dried out.

Enjoy and nice goals!

Kim Poler is queen bee of beehive ART. She life for inspiring visual appearance, explosions of colors, types and interesting combinations of mixed-media art. She creates, styles and offers art jobs, teaches kiddies art and blogs at Beehive Art.