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  • Ok so I want to dye 3 items of chiffon clothing. 2 are already a pale yellow the other white I want them all to be an exact match. I can't seem to find any pale light kinda pastel yellow dye. Its all golden or lemon yellow. Where can I find any? And do you hand dye (don't want that trouble btw) or stick it in the washer? Will vote best answer.

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    I too have concerns that the chiffon will not take any dye. Nylon has to be colored during the manufacturing process and doesn't take dye once made. Silk chiffon is made but extremely expensive. If you have silk, use a cold water dye from your local craft store. In many cases, the intensity of the yellow is simply altered by using less dye in the solution. This can however, alter the shade of yellow. It may become greener or dull.

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you can buy little pots of Dylon but not sure if chiffon can be dyed though, these are cold water dyes and need to be done by hand. The dyes l have used need to be done in a machine on a very hot wash so wouldn't suggest those for a delicate fabric. Have you tried looking on the website...just type dyes for Chiffon fabric and see what comes up. Good Luck!

Marilyn

get the lemon and use more water and less dye!! But overdyeing may not work the way you think it should.

Nana Lamb

You will never get an exact match. Dyeing is more an art than a science. Just consider how much difference there is in yarn of the exact same color, in two different dye lots. That's why, when you purchase yarn for a project, you purchase more than enough for the whole project, to avoid the dreaded change in dye lot. Now what is "chiffon?" I suspect most answers did not realize it is not a fiber type, but a weaving type. You can have a cotton chiffon, a polyester chiffon, heck a wool chiffon. Each is going to dye very differently, based on its fiber content. Each is going to require a different dye formulation, and each is going to react to that dye differently. But even supposing all three garments are made from the same bolt of fabric, the same fiber content and weave. They aren't starting out the same color to start with. It's not like paint chips that you can computer match. You have to guess, and mix different colors just like an artist painting a landscape has to mix different colors together to get just that shade of sunset peach. Can you stick it in the washer? Depends on the dye and the fiber content. Do the garment labels specify the garment can be machine washed? If not, then neither can they be dyed in a washing machine. If the fiber content is cellulose, then you don't dye in the washing machine because it won't have time to set (preferably cellulose dyes are held in place for 24 hours or at least overnight, much longer than one washing machine cycle). If the fiber content is protein or nylon, then you have to use hot water, hotter than what a washing machine can produce. You can still use the washing machine, but you have to boil water to pour into it. And what if, which is very very likely, the fiber content is polyester? You can't dye that at home.

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