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I ordered a body stocking from sugar petals to match a bra and belt set I am making. Unfortunately the purple is a very blue purple and the color on my bedlah is a red purple. The difference is VERY obvious
Can I dye over the purple power-net? Should I try a maroon dye? Or red? Or say screw it and order a body colored one?
Can I dye over the purple power-net? Should I try a maroon dye? Or red? Or say screw it and order a body colored one?
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Re: The wrong purple
Mon, June 29, 2009 - 11:19 AMdepends on the fabric and the dye that was originally used. if you're not worried about ruining it if it doesn't go according to plan, then go ahead. if the fibre content isn't listed on the garment you'd need to take a small piece from somewhere inconspicuous (that whon't cause running) and do a burn test to see what kind of dye you need.
you could also try taking it to the mall and putting on solid collored marron or red bathing suits, and see if the combination of a blue-ish purple sheer (is it sheer?) over that doesn't fix the color.
is it non-returnable? does sugar petals dye thigns to match if you sent them a swatch of ur fabric? i don't know these things about them.
maybe someone else in the group has that color purple and would buy it off you? or you could wear it and stand next to her, or give her a little of your red-ish purple and u guys would balance out/ go together? -
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Re: The wrong purple
Mon, June 29, 2009 - 11:51 AMwww.sugarpetals.com/body_stockings.asp
It's style #1, so there isn't any here you can take a sample from. The website does say you can dye the white with RIT dye, I was wondering if anyone here had tried it.
Fariha, its for Hannah's group piece so I'm pretty sure no one on the group wants it ;-) they are all a lot smaller than me
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Re: The wrong purple
Mon, June 29, 2009 - 4:10 PMTry out the Idye for polyester; I recommend the 449 red to bring it up to a reddish purple; on a hidden part of the seam. ; ) What is your deadline / performance date? You may be able to return the purple & order the nude one instead?
www.dharmatrading.com/html/en...AA.shtml
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Re: The wrong purple
Mon, June 29, 2009 - 10:34 PMDO NOT USE RED DYE OVER THE PURPLE! It will just make the shade look muddy. You want to use a magenta/fuschia based dye. Using an RGB color wheel and mixing red + blue, you don't really get a good purple, as you might recall from grade school mixing tempera. However, you can get a better tone from Magenta + Cyan, for some reason.
Anyhow, Rit dye takes beautifully on nylon, rayon, and the rest of the natural fibers. I've dyed nylon tights and bras, and they look great, as long as they aren't polyester. All depends on the fiber conent. IDye Poly claims to work on polyester, but the garment I used it on was still very washed out and uneven, after following directions very carefully. -
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Re: The wrong purple
Tue, June 30, 2009 - 6:38 AMthe problem with rit dye is it never really sets, and when you sweat, or it gets humid, it can be absorbed into your skin. rit is linked to liver cancer (dye sortta falls threw the regularoty cracks, doesn't fall under the epa, fda, or craft product regulators so...) -
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Re: The wrong purple
Tue, June 30, 2009 - 7:07 AMI had been using RIT & was unhappy with the output (esp with darker colors) & then a friend suggested Dylon (can purchase at Joanns, Hancock Fabrics & online at Dharma) -- I will *never* go back to RIT.
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Re: The wrong purple
Mon, July 6, 2009 - 12:30 PMre Red dye over purple, and colour wheels
It all depends on the hues you are mixing. Most colours (eg. paints) aren't a "pure" colour on the colourwheel; they usually are biased slightly towards the next colour over (eg. cyan is a blue tending towards green, vs. ultraviolet which is a blue tending towards purple). To get a really bright secondary colour, you want to mix two primaries which are both tending toward the same secondary. Of course, often it's just easier to pick up a dye/paint in the right secondary colour, if available. When I took painting in Uni we had to have six "primary" colours, each biased in a different direction (eg. a green-yellow (lemon) and a red-yellow(sunflower)). Of course there were still a few shades it was hard to get, but having these options made it much easier to get the colour you wanted.
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Re: The wrong purple
Wed, July 1, 2009 - 1:48 PMIf any one is curious, neither iDye of acid dye (had some so I figured I'd try) managed to do anything but turn my sink pink :-(
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Re: The wrong purple
Thu, July 2, 2009 - 7:16 AMIf the dye is't taking, you might consider fabric paint instead. I've had good luck using it on poly stuff but I've always had enjough fabric to test the colors before I did the whole garment. Joann sells the Jacquard paints.
