I have thrown away a bright blue batik after "washing" it many, many times - trying many different things to get it to stop bleeding. I was using a pure white kitchen dish washing pan and when I would squeeze it, tons of blue dye would come out - my husband said it looked like an octopus squirting out his ink. So, threw it away. One other batik got thrown away and I think it had green and gold in it - same thing.