Dye Wool Rug

You can keep your color fresh by setting it with a vinegar and salt solution both during and after the dying.

Dye wool rug. Foundation cloths backings. Add the amount of liquid or predissolved dye required for your rug. Different fabrics do absorb the dye differently. Determine if your carpet can take dye because only nylon and wool are dye friendly.

I have dyed a lot of clothes but never a rug. Only dye your carpet if you are sure it is wool or nylon. Over dyeing a rug requires two chemicals in your dye bath to help successfully adhere the dye molecules to the wool fibers. Just prior to dyeing add several large potfuls of boiling water which will give your rug a much better color result.

The process of overdyeing a rug is intensive laborious and it takes up a lot of room it involves soaking it bleaching it dyeing it and you often have to repeat the process until the desired finish is attained sometimes up to seven times. Using a spray bottle is an interesting idea for applying dye to large items. It was filthy but after four rounds of steam cleaning at home the water finally ran clear and the rug was ready to dye. Toak two of a kind hand dyed wools.

A ph stabilizer and a dye set penetrant. Tools of the trade. The one caveat is that it should be made out of wool or natural material as synthetic rugs can t withstand the dyeing process. I tackled the dyeing process when melissa my college roommate spent the weekend with me.

The ph stabilizer brings the rug to the acid side between 2 4 while the dye set penetrant acts as a leveling agent opening up the dye sites for the new color. Our solid wools to overdye. In a great twist of fate i found a large 10 x 12 wool rug at the thrift store for only 15. Only wool or nylon fibers are dyeable.

If you don t remember your carpet s content cut a small tuft of fiber and carefully set it alight atop a. Stir the dye bath with a wooden stirring stick to evenly spread the dye. The more synthetic in the fabric the less dye it will absorb. Not all types of carpet fiber can be dyed.

Bee line townsend cutters. Read the dye packaging carefully to make sure it is safe for use on these materials. If you are using a powder dye predissolve the dye in 2 cups of boiling water. Both may be used in persian rug weaving but it is the ivory wool that is most easily altered through the process of dyeing to produce poly chromatic textiles and rugs.

Scissor sitters pins. While it may. To test your carpet carefully burn a fiber sample. Some local fabric carpet and home supply stores as well as a variety of online retailers sell carpet dye in an assortment of standard colors.

Choose the right carpet dye for your carpet.