Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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Ice dye magic @Lotus_Leaf_Dyes
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Yep agreed, plus green is probably my favorite color.
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My coworker and I were inspired to try some ice dyeing after seeing the posts from @adam313.
Will report back in a day.
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Imma try it too! I'll be starting with some cheap tees and then moving into some nice one that got stained. Thanks for the inspiration (move me brightly), @adam313
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I love this!! Inspiration for days, go boldly good men…Godspeed and good luck
"Light the song with sense and color!"
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Pretty happy with the results for our first attempt. Next time I’m going to use discharge paste and or bleach to get some of those cool effects that @adam313 has.
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@Palmer Those are righteous results! I'm in love with the fluid dynamics, it's magical every time. Keep in mind that the IH fabric is a different beast. We learned that straight away lol, sometimes the fabric acts like the Frenchman in the castle from Monty Python
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" -
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If vacuum sucks (ha) for it then I wonder if pressure would be an alternative.
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I was thinking of a vacuum chamber as a tool to garment dye a piece already made, say a white t-shirt or a cotton sweater.
This being said, I'm curious why "if you are rope-dyeing then a vacuum chamber is the last thing you want"?
Vacuum chambers are used to "stabilize" pieces of fancy-but-fragile wood (e.g., wood burls) used for crafts, such as knife handles. The way it works is that the craftsman would put pieces of wood in a bath of epoxy / resin / etc, sometimes with dyes, and create a (low grade) vacuum to "pull" the air out of all the tiny flaws and cracks in a piece of wood. the wood becomes saturated with the glue and dye and becomes effectively very hard.
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Because the whole point about rope dyeing is that the indigo oxidises on the surface of the yarn and does not penetrate to the core.
https://www.heddels.com/dictionary/rope-dyeing/
That is why blue jeans fade to white….
