Prism99 |
03-04-2011 07:36 AM |
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If you have a piece of yardage that is bleeding, then Retayne is the best thing to use nowadays. It is widely available in quilting shops that cater to dyers and online at place such as Amazon and DharmaTrading. Retayne permanently fixes unset dye into fabric. Very occasionally a piece of fabric might need two washings with Retayne to become colorfast. Test by dropping a small square of fabric in water to see if dye expands into the water, and also rub a damp piece of the fabric against a white fabric to see if there is any dye transfer.
If the fabrics are already in a quilt, then it is not safe to use Retayne because any bleeds will be permanently set into other fabrics. In this case you want to use Synthrapol. This is a wash chemical that suspends unset dye particles in water until they can be rinsed away. This prevents unset dye particles from staining other fabrics. It will also gradually remove dye particles from bleeds as long as the bleeds have not been permanently set.
Vinegar and salt used to work when dyes were primarily organic in composition. However, nowadays almost all dyes are chemical in origin so vinegar and salt really don't work anymore.
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