Why bleeding?
As I read and experience bleeding fabrics I'm really wondering why? This fabric we buy is not inexpensive, sometimes I think overpriced, but that's another story....how come the clothes that we buy don't bleed when washed?..exception being red, denims, very dark....whatever...but generally most are " safe". I know most clothing is a combo of cotton/poly, but those things that are 100% cotton, in colors, is there bleeding? Since I'm out of the work force now, my shopping is limited, but when I was, I was a clothes horse and none of my washable clothes ever bled! But thinking now,when I washed the "darks"' it was and still is, in cold water...
Are the mfgrs of cotton yard goods somehow gypping on their dyes causing them to be not so colorfast- how about that for a dated word! Or is it because we(quilters) are "washing in HOT water" everything.......just wondering