Question:
Dying jeans.
No, my jeans aren't dying, but I wanted to die (WTF) dye?! them another colour- ie: dye some light ones darker..
Looking at colours in a shop today- you can buy an idigo colour but my mate was convinced the'd come out nayv- and yeah I'm not too keen on navy jeans IYKWIM?
So does anyone have any experience with dying (feels odd writing that) jeans, if so, what colour and what was the result?
Fanking Uuu!:cool:
I haven't tried it but I'm sure someone asked this ages ago and the general (which I just tried to spell jeneral, time for bed?) opinion was that it wouldn't work very well because even indigo jeans have white threads running through them, or at the very least different tones.
I dyed (think it feels odd writing dying cos it should be dyEing ;)) some grey jeans black last week, came out verrrrrr well :great: You can get actual denim-coloured dye from Dylon which is made for dyeing jeans, you might wanna try that if you don't want the navy look? Maybe if you only put half the packet in, it would dye them darker but not a completely flat tone all over, cos I can see Fudge's point about the white threads...I don't know though, someone else would probably be better answering this than me :meh:
I've dyed a pair of lightish jeans using dylon in indigo, followed the instructions exactly...and ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans :(
It did come out a sort of funny navy colour as somebody mentioned, and it just didn't look 'natural'/professionally done, iykwim. It looked home dyed basically (hard to describe what i mean, sorry) Also the fabric is now stiff like cardboard, no matter how much fabric softener I use. I wouldn't recommend it!
I might try dying stuff again in the future, but only with black dye.
Gforce that's what i fear will happen so i will just buy some black dye i think..
thanks a lot xx
No, my jeans aren't dying, but I wanted to die (WTF) dye?! them another colour- ie: dye some light ones darker..
Looking at colours in a shop today- you can buy an idigo colour but my mate was convinced the'd come out nayv- and yeah I'm not too keen on navy jeans IYKWIM?
So does anyone have any experience with dying (feels odd writing that) jeans, if so, what colour and what was the result?
Fanking Uuu!:cool:
Answers:
I haven't tried it but I'm sure someone asked this ages ago and the general (which I just tried to spell jeneral, time for bed?) opinion was that it wouldn't work very well because even indigo jeans have white threads running through them, or at the very least different tones.
Answers:
I dyed (think it feels odd writing dying cos it should be dyEing ;)) some grey jeans black last week, came out verrrrrr well :great: You can get actual denim-coloured dye from Dylon which is made for dyeing jeans, you might wanna try that if you don't want the navy look? Maybe if you only put half the packet in, it would dye them darker but not a completely flat tone all over, cos I can see Fudge's point about the white threads...I don't know though, someone else would probably be better answering this than me :meh:
Answers:
I've dyed a pair of lightish jeans using dylon in indigo, followed the instructions exactly...and ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans :(
It did come out a sort of funny navy colour as somebody mentioned, and it just didn't look 'natural'/professionally done, iykwim. It looked home dyed basically (hard to describe what i mean, sorry) Also the fabric is now stiff like cardboard, no matter how much fabric softener I use. I wouldn't recommend it!
I might try dying stuff again in the future, but only with black dye.
Answers:
Gforce that's what i fear will happen so i will just buy some black dye i think..
thanks a lot xx
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