USE FOR: Tie-Dye, Tub or washing machine Dyeing (solid color), Low Immersion Dyeing, Batik, Dye Painting, Silk Painting, Screen & Block Printing or Stenciling, even Tie-dyeing Silk in a Microwave
USE ON: All natural Fibers (Cotton, Rayon, Hemp, Linen, Silk, etc.), Wood, Cane, and Rattan
Since 1969 Dharma Trading Co. has been the #1 source for dyes for Tie-Dye! (Read why here.)
There is no better dye for natural fabrics than Fiber Reactive Procion type Dye. This is the eye-catching dye you've seen on tie-dye shirts and other items sold at street fairs and concerts.
Brilliant, mouth-watering, and permanent. They don't fade, even after repeated washings. They are economical, safe, and easy to use. Superior to supermarket dyes in every way! Buy in small quantities, in bulk, or in kits. Remember, color charts and monitors can vary and are intended as a guide only. Certain chemicals are required for use and there are MANY ways to use this dye - Click on the tabs below including the full Description to read all about it.
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MOST HELPFUL REVIEWS
4/11/2017
5
Wonderful dye - beautiful colours and highly recommended. I normally use Jacquard iDye for its simplicity smaller salt amount and no need for a fixer. However the colours are very limited and these Procion dyes are just beautiful. I bought Moss Green which is very rich and deep Sapphire Blue which is a very true darker blue (no reds or greens in it) Peony - very lovely pink but can be quite intense when more of the dye is used and Imperial Purple which is one of the most beautiful inky sexy purples! I just love it:) More on the bluish side which is what I wanted and very deep in colour. Using a smaller amount of this due yields a beautiful lighter blue-lavender shade and its just as delicious as the dark:) These dyes however do need to be very well dissolved and I recommend pouring the dye solution through a strainer lined with a paper towel. Keep adding water to the container the dye was mixed in to catch all of the particles as the colours separate a bit (you will see particles of reds blues and even yellows depending on the colour you are using) and swirl the water in the container to really get all of the particles out and strained through the paper towel. Once I did this I did not notice the tiny pin-prick dye spots on my fabric as I saw when I skipped this process and just dumped the dye solution into my water bath. This process is especially important for any dye that had red in it as red seems to be a very tricky colour to work with when dyeing.
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187 of 189 users found this review helpful.
5/15/2008
5
Lovely colors easy to use if you do your research. Stay bight and clear through many washings. Wonderful to make quilting fabrics with. Fun to mix and create new colors and be as creative as you wish to be. A plus is the customer service!!!
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108 of 110 users found this review helpful.
7/12/2008
5
The best dye for tie-dye batik fabric dye painting etc. Colorfast for years easy to use and inexpensive. I absolutely recommend it.
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67 of 69 users found this review helpful.
9/12/2012
5
There is no comparison between this dye and Ritfabric store dyes. It's more work but it shows.. The old addage "if a little is good more must be better" DOES NOT apply here. I must say with my first batch (olive green) I followed the directions to the letter and it came out way darker than I wanted. For my second batch I used half the amount of dye and cut the soak times by more than 50 percent..... Still darker than I would have liked! Note to new users such as myself: you will need to experiment if you are set on a particular shade.Bottom line: It isnt rocket science... Set aside plenty of time - especially on your first go - and (considering the advice above) follow the directions. You'll have great results!One more note: Having a front loader I used the low foam Synthaprol to wash. I shudder to think of the amount of foam I would have had with regular Synthaprol as it was still VERY sudsy with LF!
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122 of 127 users found this review helpful.
7/14/2008
5
We've been using this dye for years and definitley worth the extra effort (mixing chemicals like a mad scientist!). We used syringes (without the needle) to make awesome colors - just slurp up a bit of this and a bit of that and some water and you can get some outrageous colors but not too much of it so it saves dye. Thumbs up.
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125 of 131 users found this review helpful.
MOST RECENT REVIEWS
3/20/2023
5
I started tie dying during covid I have gotten better and better at it and am now going to sell some to people. Most colors look pretty accurate to sample on here although I find the blues can be a bit different. Highly recommend the colors such a variety and they take very well.
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2/2/2023
5
Love thease dyes they are very easy to work with and get great results if you follow instructions. #GratefulZeb
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1/11/2023
5
I love your dyes for tie dying. I decided to try them on my rattan. Over all a success. However I found the houdini blue came out much darker than the midshade blue on your palette. It looked exactly like a navy or midnight blue instead.
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11/22/2022
5
I used 200 Raven Black. It worked super well! Great saturation and couldn't be happier.
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10/24/2022
1
HOT BLACK... Stay away from this one. I have been so happy with all the dyes I have gotten from Dharma and the customer service has always been great. So i ordered 2 lbs of the Hot Black which is significantly more expensive than the other blacks but appears several others were out of stock. All my other colors came out fantastic but the hot black came out a muted tanbrown. If there are some magical instructions to make this stuff work please help. But otherwise my advice would be to not use this color.
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10/22/2022
5
We run our own small at-home tie dye business! We started off with just kits from amazon and came across Dharma and haven't looked back since!!! This dye is amazing! We make bulk orders so we mix about 30 different colors for each batch and this stuff is AMAZING! Colors stay and we literally cannot keep up with the demand of the bags that we are making! This dye powder was super easy to learn how to use and we are super happy that we found Dharma!
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3 of 3 users found this review helpful.
10/20/2022
5
i love this stuff
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10/12/2022
5
I gambled on 142-Dutch Chocolate bc I couldn't figure out the difference between the browns and Dharma didn't answer my email. I followed the Tub Dyeing instructions but used 1 13 tblsp dye instead of the recommended 2 tblsp dye for my 1lb cotton jacket and omitted calsolene oil. The dye looked just like red velvet cake. It mixed to a coppery color. Worried. But after 2 hours of mixing stirring and rinsing - my jacket was the color of a chocolate bar ! The color family I hoped for ! I was worried about getting stuck with a gross mauve-y brown or ashy green brown. I'm happy to report Dutch Chocolate will turn cotton into a chocolate bar brown. ( but PLEASE Dharma make it easier to compare colors side by side. I don't expect an exact representation but I'd like to be able to tell if a color is warm or purple based or ashy etc)
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