A friend and I bought identical fabrics for a project. She washed one white fabric that had tiny red stars on it. The red from the stars ran badly, ruining the fabric. She then tried removing the excess dye with a commercial excess dye remember vet. The pink was gone from the white part, but the red stars turned orange. After hearing of her experience, I used Retayne and, fortunately, had no problem. She informed the shop where we bought the fabric, but only got a shrug of the shoulders.