How to Overdye an Old Sweater // Casual Friday #3
This video demonstrates how to tub dye a sweater on the stove using acid dye. The dye used in this video was Jacquard Acid Dye, in color 626 Navy Blue.
Note: Wool requires moisture, agitation, and temperature change in order to felt. Wool can handle almost any temperature--including near-boiling temperature--if the change from one temperature to another is done gradually. It's agitation while wet, or a quick change in temperature (cold to hot or hot to cold) that you have to watch out for.
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Introduction: 0:00
Challenges and Concerns: 0:27
Before pictures: 6:06
Step 1: Clean wool 6:48
Step 2: Mixing the dye 7:08
Step 3: Moving the sweater to the dye pot: 7:53
Step 4: Heat dye pot: 8:53
Step 5: Add the acid
Step 6: Cool down
Ta-da! 12:35
About that unexhausted dye: 13:07
Finished object at the start of the video
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