Thread: help with color bleeding??
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Old 07-14-2015, 11:31 AM
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HouseDragon
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Ladies! You can reuse colour catchers!

When I prewash Batiks, I wash like colours together. Throw in three catchers, wash in hot water, rinse in cold. If the catchers aren't ultra pale, I wash again adding a fourth colour catcher. If the new catcher is white or pale, they've caught all the dye.

I save all the colour catchers by colour family. They just keep getting darker, so it's obvious they are still soaking up excess dye.

Occasionally a Batik is REALLY saturated with dye. Not often, but it happens. I throw in the whole pile of matching coloured catchers plus one new one and wash again in hot water/cold rinse. Repeat until the "newest" catcher is pale/white as above.

*LOL* I enjoy the stack of rainbow colour catchers that results from separating them by colour family.
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