Aloha!!!! im wanting my bms in navy blue chiffon dresses...not a prob until i get to my moh, my sis, who is having ivory chiffon t match the colour of my dress.........if i was to buy a white chiffon could i dye it ivory???? can u buy ivory dye????? and what is chiffon like to dye????? thanks xxx
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CommentAuthorbrilly
got this off google hun
Whether chiffon can be dyed depends on what fiber it is made of. Silk chiffon is easy to dye. Polyester chiffon is very difficult. It also depends on whether you are talking about silk chiffon yardage, or a dry-clean-only dress. You can't dye anything that is not washable. Even if it is washable, the seams on a ready-made dress are almost always sewn with polyester thread, so they will remain the original color after you redye the silk.
Silk chiffon can be dyed to a darker color easily with acid dye or with fiber reactive dye, but polyester chiffon can be dyed only with a special polyester dye called disperse dye, which can be purchased only by mail-order and which must be boiled for an hour with the fabric to dye it.
hope it helps xx
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CommentAuthorbrilly
and u can get ivory fabric dye on the bay hun xxx
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
yeah i read that too. the disperse dye WILL work, but boiling the dress might be the thing that ruins it.
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CommentAuthorbrilly
i just googled it anne hun to see what it said on there only thing ive ever died was curtains and that was to black they did come out nice tho lol xxx
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polyester apparently cant be dyed very successfully......however if its only going from white to ivory, then doing it 3-4 times with the normal dye....(not the boiling kind) might just work enough to make a slight difference.
littlemisschuckles, why buy a white dress and dye it Ivory? could you not just buy the dress in Ivory?
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CommentAuthorbrilly
raggedy i like the machine dyes it dyes them and washes them at same time plus saves the mess lol x
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
I havent dyed anything for years and years, and even then i didnt do it in a machine......does the item come out evenly dyed? not patchy or anything?
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the dresses that i like in navy i cant get in ivory so im now thinking completely different dress styles and get 3 one in ivory for r claire one in burnt orangey red for r steph and a navy one for r charlotte...im having the different colours as part of my scheme xxxxx
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
yeah me too, I love the different coloured lok, I am having 4 bridesmaids all in a different colour....
it really depends on the cost of the dress, if it was cheap enough maybe you could try and dye it, and if it didnt work you havent lost much. but apparently you cant dye polyester very well....HOWEVER.....there is a thread on here somewhere that someone (recently) dyed there petticoat and the dye didnt take to it very well on the first go, becasue the fabric was polyester, but it DID take a bit and a bit is all you need cos its just a slight change.
I am also thinking of doing this , if you read my dress thread you will know the dress I have on order is way too light and i am thinking of either adding another layer to it in a darker chiffon, or dying it.
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CommentAuthorbrilly
raggedy year its the dylon machine 1s hun they worked fab xx
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
what was the fabric you dyed?
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CommentAuthorbrilly
think the curtains are cotton hun but not hundred percent sure will have a look when i go to bed as there hung up downstairs (my flats upside down to a house bedrooms are downstairs ) lol xx
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
Cotton takes dye very well, but polyester doesnt take it very well.
