Some tips from a gal who dyes clothes black all the time: Half a bottle of dye per article of clothing is typical for the true black results I like. So say you have 10 clothing items you’d like to dye black, you’ll want 5 bottles of dye. Smaller batches work best, like two pieces of clothing per container. I like to let the clothes sit in the dye bath for HOURS. Stir every 30mins, for a few hours then I go to sleep and let them sit overnight. I pour out the dye water, then fill back up with cold water and salt, let sit for a few more hours. This yields the best results for me through trial and error. Sometimes if I have a pair of jeans, it will take an entire bottle by itself to get a true black.
@@nicolus999 dylon is honestly great! I don’t have to soak for nearly as long or use such hot water with Dylon, it is a lot more expensive than Rit in my country though!
@@Jumbjetsky you gotta hand wash the shirts outside of the washer first before throwing it in there . Dying isn’t always easy but it’s makes any blank tee better
@@Jumbjetsky fast fashion unfortunately is becoming one of the biggest pollutants since the plastic fibers in the clothing doesn't break down well. Lesser of two evils kind of thing
@@syco_hundreds2661 for polyester blend, you gotta doo it on the stove where heat is involved. Only way it'll work properly. For cotton you can just toss it in the washing machine
This may sound silly, but it works. I’ve always had better luck by simmering the clothes. Yes, literally put them in a pot, on the stove and bring to a low, simmering boil. That really seems to help penetrate the fibers, and seems to make it last longer. Limitations are pot size. If you have a large item, or multiple ones, use a turkey fryer set up. Again, I know this may seem sus, but it has worked for me over the years.
Graphite is dark grey, which is probably why your nylon/polyester items are more on the grey scale of their original colors. My mom has been dying clothes for decades, sometimes you need to do it more than once if you want a super saturated dark color. Also, after you dye them, soak them in ice cold salt water for a few hours before rinsing the dye out.
Hi! I have 0 experience in dying clothes but I want to dye some 90% polyester scrubs that I have. Do you know if that dye will work? The scrubs are grey and other dark blue. I would appreciate some tips. Thank you
@@Zophia.28 Polyester is a synthetic material, therefore you need to use Rit's "Dye More" option. The regular dye that you normally see in the store is meant for natural fibers only such as cotton, linen, etc. You can order from their website, find tips for how to dye your project, and can even ask them direct questions. I have found that they are prompt in answering and usually do so within a few hours. If you are wanting to dye them black like the girl in the video, I think you would be fine based on the color description you provided. You should check out Rit's FAQ section because they have provided a TON of answers to several different questions. I even believe they have a section for "over dyeing" (dyeing over another color).
Watching these kind of videos, I appreciate that you are one of the few who took time to show the actual results (and failures). I have to wonder about this whole dye business though. As a professional painter, I can pretty much guarantee you if I wore any of your clothes for long enough while working I would get them to absorb all kinds of different colors. I'm seriously wondering if I should just try to paint some of my clothes the color I want them 😋 Thanks for this educational piece!✌️
Every piece still looks better in my opinion. More gray. More muted. And I totally already decided I'm using my backscratcher to stir before I even started this video lolol
Graphite isn't black.. it is a variation of grey. Which is probably why the lime green turned a darker green and not the color you expected it to. However I LOVE the way the leopard print swim suit turned out. It's beautiful!
If you decide to do another try..you should try the synthetic dye on everything except 100?% cotton. But you actually need to do it with boiling water on the stove to get it to a darker color.
you can still see the purple under the black on those jeans. The thing is there is also RIT (and other brands) color remover, which you can use on your clothes first for better results.
Synthetic dyes work best at 180F-212F and an all purpose dye like RIt also work best at above 140. If you re-dye the synthetic stuff (pink shirt included) on the stovetop. The Rit Dyemore will do a much better job.
Took my cue from Audrey Hepburn years ago! Lol My closet is varying shades of med gray to graphite and black cashmere, silk and linen blazers, coats, skirts, dresses, dress pants and sweats with some pretty white linen or silk blouses for contrast. I can get dressed in the dark and still get my look just right. Same goes for my boots, shoes and pj's. 😊 Easy Peasy!
I always use the hot cycle on washer and let soak 1-2 days for decent results. Agitate it every few hours or so. Anything less than one day soak is very light color. If you want black use 3 bottles. I dye thrift clothes, bras, bedding, anything really . Going to try
I loved the leopard print, I thought it looked great. I’m gonna be trying this... nice that you took one for the team & explained the different kinds of dyes. I’m excited!!
Here, because new position in the company and requires all black I have a ton of clothing and I rather dye and repurpose what I have most high end pieces that fit well some were tailored. I appreciated this content
Me "looking at my wardrobe of clothes & constipating on dying all my pieces" 🤗🤗🤗 Btw 70% of clothes I have are black already, but I would like to dye those that are easily looking faded.
I was in the big block store and the rit dye for cotton and the rit dye for polyester weren't even on same aisle. So confusing. Also, the back scratcher is genius - better than a kitchen utensil
RIT makes dye for synthetic fabrics. That would be anything with polyester, the workout top, the swimsuits, anything that isn't cotton would dye with that stuff.
I see this is an old video but definitely needed to do the synthetics fabrics on stove top like the instructions say! I also don't recommend diluting the dye with water for swimwear!
I thought I had the same dye, but the directions said to boil them in a steel pot on the stove. Ugh. Now I’m unsure about this. I hope it works for me!
I dyed 20 of my tshirts with 2 black dylon pods, I just wanted to dye the stains away lol every item was a different colour of blue dispite being all cotton. You can't see all the stains on any of them but you'd think the colours would be the same
I do a lot of fabric dying. You have to treat synthetic fabrics different from natural fabrics. And as you can see, some synthetics you can dye over because of how they are originally dyed and treated. Her purple pants will always have a purple undertone. There isn’t a way to get completely rid of this.
From what I've learned with synthetic fabrics (polyester and other synthetics) they say that very high 'constant heat' is the key. So the swimsuits would have turned out a lot darker if you had done it one the stove.
If you are into this idea still, check out Mr.Tiedye. He is a hippy dye sage who is really knowledgeable on the types of dyes and compounds that help the dye bond to the fabric. If you would've used a powder dye in tandem with soda ash I think you would've gotten your expected result. Great experiment 👍🏼
Dyes are semi transparent so the base color will affect the final color and to dye polyester and synthetic fabrics you need a poly dye because reg dyes won't adhere
I have this rust orange lace shirt that I LOVE still but don’t ever wear because of the color. I pretty much only wear black and some white at this point. I got the brilliant idea to just dye it black so here I am!
I can see how dying the faded black clothes turned out jet black, but the other colored clothes probably would have turned out better if you would have used the Rit color remover on the first.
the swimsuits prolly flopped bc they prolly have high polyester content, the rit dye says that if theres over 35% polyester it wont work as well, not sure if they make another kind of dye for swimsuit type materials
Ive seen another video where she water was super hot like boiled then it stayed in super warm water for the time it had to be stirred....you should try again 😁
Im restoring a coat I get lots of bad comments 😑saying, againn your wearing that one again. So I plan to coloring it, change buttons, remove hood and add some bling
I actually love how the clothes look. I did the same. I don't like colors. So, i dyed my clothes that were too flashy colors a charcoal and black so i could wear them. And now I wear them. And the pink sweatsuit came out a mauve instead of grey so I was disappointed in that as well. I wanted it grey. I love grey.
I tried this in the past but the results were an unappealing dark grey/purple shade. But I definitely will try again I have a lot of clothes I never wear anymore because I struggle putting together outfits especially with colorful shirts or patterns.
@@CasuallyObservant look up the directions online for this brand of dye so you have the right ingredients/amounts fir your specific dye job. If I could include a pic of my bottle I would!
Haha this video came at the right time for me! I have a bathing suit that got oddly stained on the front and I thought about trying to dye it black! It's a neutral pink color so I'm not quite sure how the dye would take...lol I don't think I'll dye it now since a muted neutral pink would probably look worse 😂
hunter green sports bra with steel bathing suit bottom. SYNTHETICS resist dyeing. I like the leopard with gray much better. Thank you for this honest experiment.
Ok 1 the dye is material specific, natural and cottons then the synthetics. 2 My bottle reads temp has to be 200 degrees sustained til dying is done. Now that covered, think over all awesome job for first run. Well looks like I found out what will happen if I use hot tap water. YES gotta die some shorts for kids. then perhaps a jacket.
Add a cup of salt with your dye. Polyester, nylon does not grab to black Rit dye. I’ve never dyed a white cotton shirt so I’m doing a bit of research before I do it.
I need advice. I need to dye a khaki green dress BLACK.. However, it's made of the following 41% viscose, 35% cotton, 17% polyester, and 7% elastane. Please help
The synthetic dye has to be added to almost boiling water about 180F in order to penetrate synthetic fibers . Bath water isn’t hot enough unfortunately.
Hopefully you still check messages for this video haha. Done a proper stupid thing and wore expensive jumper to work and of course managed to get mysterious greyish streak on it and tried washing it with no success really. It's basically a plan black hoodie but with hot of red around the logo so would only want to dye a portion of the hoodie. Just wondering are all black dyes pretty much the same colour? Because my plan is to just dye the stain but I need to know if it would match the black of the hoodie. Thanks
Some tips from a gal who dyes clothes black all the time:
Half a bottle of dye per article of clothing is typical for the true black results I like. So say you have 10 clothing items you’d like to dye black, you’ll want 5 bottles of dye. Smaller batches work best, like two pieces of clothing per container. I like to let the clothes sit in the dye bath for HOURS. Stir every 30mins, for a few hours then I go to sleep and let them sit overnight. I pour out the dye water, then fill back up with cold water and salt, let sit for a few more hours.
This yields the best results for me through trial and error. Sometimes if I have a pair of jeans, it will take an entire bottle by itself to get a true black.
And what dyes would you recommend?
RIT is sold out in my country so id maybe change to DYLON
@@nicolus999 dylon is honestly great! I don’t have to soak for nearly as long or use such hot water with Dylon, it is a lot more expensive than Rit in my country though!
@@mychaekovacha6607 okay and do you use the black velvet or intense black because velvet is sold out too :/
@@nicolus999 I’ve never used the velvet by dylon, only ever used “intense black” from that brand and it’s great! It made light blue jeans solid black!
@@mychaekovacha6607 thanks for the awnsers; lets see how my first dye processs will be :))
The more use we get out of our old clothes and the less new clothes we buy is definitely better for the environment.
Hmm i do not know, but all dye being washed out into our sewage system, whether that's better for the environment
@@Jumbjetsky you gotta hand wash the shirts outside of the washer first before throwing it in there . Dying isn’t always easy but it’s makes any blank tee better
@@Jumbjetsky fast fashion unfortunately is becoming one of the biggest pollutants since the plastic fibers in the clothing doesn't break down well. Lesser of two evils kind of thing
@@syco_hundreds2661 for polyester blend, you gotta doo it on the stove where heat is involved. Only way it'll work properly.
For cotton you can just toss it in the washing machine
not only for environmental reasons but also your moneys ….
This. Idea. Is BRILLIANT!! Don’t like it? Dye it💁🏽♀️
Until it's wash day
This may sound silly, but it works. I’ve always had better luck by simmering the clothes. Yes, literally put them in a pot, on the stove and bring to a low, simmering boil. That really seems to help penetrate the fibers, and seems to make it last longer. Limitations are pot size. If you have a large item, or multiple ones, use a turkey fryer set up. Again, I know this may seem sus, but it has worked for me over the years.
I’m definitely trying this idea! Thanks!
How long do you keep it on the stove boiling after you add the dye?
@@ericahendricks5867 like 20 mins I’ve seen other places!
Turkey Fryer. American solutions *facepalms*
@Claudia Matteolo whatever works eh :p
Graphite is dark grey, which is probably why your nylon/polyester items are more on the grey scale of their original colors. My mom has been dying clothes for decades, sometimes you need to do it more than once if you want a super saturated dark color. Also, after you dye them, soak them in ice cold salt water for a few hours before rinsing the dye out.
Hi! I have 0 experience in dying clothes but I want to dye some 90% polyester scrubs that I have. Do you know if that dye will work? The scrubs are grey and other dark blue. I would appreciate some tips. Thank you
@@Zophia.28
Polyester is a synthetic material, therefore you need to use Rit's "Dye More" option. The regular dye that you normally see in the store is meant for natural fibers only such as cotton, linen, etc. You can order from their website, find tips for how to dye your project, and can even ask them direct questions. I have found that they are prompt in answering and usually do so within a few hours. If you are wanting to dye them black like the girl in the video, I think you would be fine based on the color description you provided. You should check out Rit's FAQ section because they have provided a TON of answers to several different questions. I even believe they have a section for "over dyeing" (dyeing over another color).
@@Zophia.28 you have to use a poly dye
I've often thought of doing this, it's cool to see it actually done.
I was going to get rid of a bunch of clothes and my boyfriend asked why and i was like "you're right. I'll dye them all black" so now here I am
Watching these kind of videos, I appreciate that you are one of the few who took time to show the actual results (and failures).
I have to wonder about this whole dye business though. As a professional painter, I can pretty much guarantee you if I wore any of your clothes for long enough while working I would get them to absorb all kinds of different colors. I'm seriously wondering if I should just try to paint some of my clothes the color I want them 😋
Thanks for this educational piece!✌️
I like every single transformation. The new colors are like brand new clothes. Definitely trying this!
Every piece still looks better in my opinion. More gray. More muted. And I totally already decided I'm using my backscratcher to stir before I even started this video lolol
Graphite isn't black.. it is a variation of grey. Which is probably why the lime green turned a darker green and not the color you expected it to. However I LOVE the way the leopard print swim suit turned out. It's beautiful!
Me too. I thought the leopard was awesome
If you decide to do another try..you should try the synthetic dye on everything except 100?% cotton. But you actually need to do it with boiling water on the stove to get it to a darker color.
you can still see the purple under the black on those jeans. The thing is there is also RIT (and other brands) color remover, which you can use on your clothes first for better results.
What about balancing pigment. Like green with red before black. That’s it’s opposite and should neutralize to a brown and then maybe add black??
@@daniumberger I wanna know if this actually works
@@daniumberger It definitely works. I was able to turn deep blue overalls to orange to brown with color wheel gymnastics.
Synthetic dyes work best at 180F-212F and an all purpose dye like RIt also work best at above 140. If you re-dye the synthetic stuff (pink shirt included) on the stovetop. The Rit Dyemore will do a much better job.
Took my cue from Audrey Hepburn years ago! Lol
My closet is varying shades of med gray to graphite and black cashmere, silk and linen blazers, coats, skirts, dresses, dress pants and sweats with some pretty white linen or silk blouses for contrast. I can get dressed in the dark and still get my look just right. Same goes for my boots, shoes and pj's. 😊
Easy Peasy!
I always use the hot cycle on washer and let soak 1-2 days for decent results. Agitate it every few hours or so.
Anything less than one day soak is very light color. If you want black use 3 bottles. I dye thrift clothes, bras, bedding, anything really .
Going to try
I often dye things, but beware, I once dyed a light pink to "camel" and it turned bright green 🍏! 🤣 Synthetics can be unpredictable.
I like the leopard swim suit 🤍 The sage green looks pretty 😃
I loved the leopard print, I thought it looked great. I’m gonna be trying this... nice that you took one for the team & explained the different kinds of dyes. I’m excited!!
Here, because new position in the company and requires all black I have a ton of clothing and I rather dye and repurpose what I have most high end pieces that fit well some were tailored. I appreciated this content
I love this! Great way to tone bright clothes for the fall 😄. Also I have a pair of black jeans that need to be brought back to life.
Me "looking at my wardrobe of clothes & constipating on dying all my pieces" 🤗🤗🤗
Btw 70% of clothes I have are black already, but I would like to dye those that are easily looking faded.
I love that you used a back scratcher 🤣. No judgment here. Whatever it takes
Haha I like your vibe. I was gonna dye my dingy white cotton band tee using that exact Rit dye. Now I know it’ll probably be more gray than anything.
I was in the big block store and the rit dye for cotton and the rit dye for polyester weren't even on same aisle. So confusing.
Also, the back scratcher is genius - better than a kitchen utensil
I "liked" the video when you said, yes I'm using a back scratcher to mix" 😂😂😂
RIT makes dye for synthetic fabrics. That would be anything with polyester, the workout top, the swimsuits, anything that isn't cotton would dye with that stuff.
Great tutorial! Definitely to dye for!!😺
Just dyed my light pink lululemon align tights and top with graphite dye, and it came out amazing. Super excited
Love the back scratcher!!
the title of the video really gets me
this helped me so much i’m dying bathing suits too n i was worried
Synthetic fibres don’t open up like natural fibres… you have to make sure you are using the correct dye with the correct binder
I see this is an old video but definitely needed to do the synthetics fabrics on stove top like the instructions say! I also don't recommend diluting the dye with water for swimwear!
For synthetics you must boil the clothes and dye together for an least one hour :)
You might need to re-dye a couple times to get the color you’re lookin for. :)
I thought I had the same dye, but the directions said to boil them in a steel pot on the stove. Ugh. Now I’m unsure about this. I hope it works for me!
If you dye the bathing suites again in black it will get closer to black. It takes more than me round when darkening light stuff to dark.
For synthetics, esp. polyester, you really need heat. Stove top method is the way to go.
It will have said that on the package.
I wanted to do this for long time lol thanks for the heads up! You are very funny I like your videos 😊👍
You have to use a color remover first to get the original color out and then do the dye, that would be the best solution for your pink top
I dyed 20 of my tshirts with 2 black dylon pods, I just wanted to dye the stains away lol every item was a different colour of blue dispite being all cotton.
You can't see all the stains on any of them but you'd think the colours would be the same
I do a lot of fabric dying. You have to treat synthetic fabrics different from natural fabrics. And as you can see, some synthetics you can dye over because of how they are originally dyed and treated. Her purple pants will always have a purple undertone. There isn’t a way to get completely rid of this.
also i think there is a vinegar addition that helps out
From what I've learned with synthetic fabrics (polyester and other synthetics) they say that very high 'constant heat' is the key. So the swimsuits would have turned out a lot darker if you had done it one the stove.
If you are into this idea still, check out Mr.Tiedye. He is a hippy dye sage who is really knowledgeable on the types of dyes and compounds that help the dye bond to the fabric. If you would've used a powder dye in tandem with soda ash I think you would've gotten your expected result. Great experiment 👍🏼
Dyes are semi transparent so the base color will affect the final color and to dye polyester and synthetic fabrics you need a poly dye because reg dyes won't adhere
I have this rust orange lace shirt that I LOVE still but don’t ever wear because of the color. I pretty much only wear black and some white at this point. I got the brilliant idea to just dye it black so here I am!
I can see how dying the faded black clothes turned out jet black, but the other colored clothes probably would have turned out better if you would have used the Rit color remover on the first.
the swimsuits prolly flopped bc they prolly have high polyester content, the rit dye says that if theres over 35% polyester it wont work as well, not sure if they make another kind of dye for swimsuit type materials
“Lime green is not my thing…” 5 min later, wearing like green tee 😂
😅
Ive seen another video where she water was super hot like boiled then it stayed in super warm water for the time it had to be stirred....you should try again 😁
I love the leopard print!! Two toned black would have looked cool too!
"Brown, but purple?"
We call that maroon.
I love your hair!♡
Thought I could have more clothes this way I can renew some clothes & be distinct.
Im restoring a coat I get lots of bad comments 😑saying, againn your wearing that one again. So I plan to coloring it, change buttons, remove hood and add some bling
I actually love how the clothes look. I did the same. I don't like colors. So, i dyed my clothes that were too flashy colors a charcoal and black so i could wear them. And now I wear them. And the pink sweatsuit came out a mauve instead of grey so I was disappointed in that as well. I wanted it grey. I love grey.
I tried this in the past but the results were an unappealing dark grey/purple shade. But I definitely will try again I have a lot of clothes I never wear anymore because I struggle putting together outfits especially with colorful shirts or patterns.
You have to use vinegar for silk stuff and salt for Cotton stuff
I came here to say this too. She skipped a step! She should try again including this step!
Wait, can you tell us how to do the missed step?
@@edify855 - Share the missing step, please?
@@CasuallyObservant look up the directions online for this brand of dye so you have the right ingredients/amounts fir your specific dye job. If I could include a pic of my bottle I would!
From what I've seen you get better results if you ad either s cup of salt or vinegar, depending on the fabric
You need a poly dye for some of those items like the suit & the bright pink
Haha this video came at the right time for me! I have a bathing suit that got oddly stained on the front and I thought about trying to dye it black! It's a neutral pink color so I'm not quite sure how the dye would take...lol I don't think I'll dye it now since a muted neutral pink would probably look worse 😂
I think it has more to do with the material of the pink shirt than the color tbh
not related but your laugh is contagious!!! 😄😄😄
I had zero luck with dye really enjoyed your vlog
hunter green sports bra with steel bathing suit bottom. SYNTHETICS resist dyeing. I like the leopard with gray much better. Thank you for this honest experiment.
I'm wondering if some of your pieces were a cotton poly blend, so only some of the fiber took up the dye.
Ok 1 the dye is material specific, natural and cottons then the synthetics. 2 My bottle reads temp has to be 200 degrees sustained til dying is done. Now that covered, think over all awesome job for first run. Well looks like I found out what will happen if I use hot tap water. YES gotta die some shorts for kids. then perhaps a jacket.
Add a cup of salt with your dye. Polyester, nylon does not grab to black Rit dye. I’ve never dyed a white cotton shirt so I’m doing a bit of research before I do it.
Thanks for this video- I’m going to try this with my white table linens that have some stains, also some faded black shirts. What have I got to lose?
Graphite is a dark Grey color, so of course the polyester things just got a muted Grey cast over it.
I literally just did this then found this video haha ....I
Hope it works to get more use outta these clothes 😜 😅
I think one dye you add salt and one you add vinegar
I need advice. I need to dye a khaki green dress BLACK.. However, it's made of the following 41% viscose, 35% cotton, 17% polyester, and 7% elastane. Please help
I kinda wanna do this now
does the color ever bleed out on the other clothes in your washer? have you experienced this problem?
Thank you for this, doll! ❤️
The synthetic dye has to be added to almost boiling water about 180F in order to penetrate synthetic fibers . Bath water isn’t hot enough unfortunately.
How are the pants doing 8 months later? Have they faded much? Thinking about dyeing a flannel shirt I got for Christmas...
They actually look ok but they have faded
Can I do a sweater from white to black?
Super excited you say
Do a second round or even a third round should work
you’re supposed to remove colors like on the purple pants the black and purple mixed so it created that
Did you use the dye for synthetic fabrics?
How do I do it in a washing machine is it the same thing or a different process
How do you get the stitching to also be black?
Would you recommend using the dye for a wool polyester mix grey coat?
Time to break out the camping cauldron
Nice!
We learning through you! 😊
I heard you’re supposed to boil just the polyester clothes then immediately dye them at least that’s what you do if you bleach them
Hopefully you still check messages for this video haha. Done a proper stupid thing and wore expensive jumper to work and of course managed to get mysterious greyish streak on it and tried washing it with no success really. It's basically a plan black hoodie but with hot of red around the logo so would only want to dye a portion of the hoodie. Just wondering are all black dyes pretty much the same colour? Because my plan is to just dye the stain but I need to know if it would match the black of the hoodie. Thanks
I’m not sure lol there was “black” and a “jet black” so they might be different lol
So I've found a bunch of my girl's old clothes and now I'm going to dye them black 😁
Awesome! I hope it works out for you!
The thing is that pink colour would actually look great on your skin because your probably a winter
Was the shirt material polyester or a natural fiber
HI! Were any of the items blotchy or was the coverage even? Thanks!
It was really even!
I wanna dye my pink dress black but idk if it will work
Someone might have already said this
But boiling water needs to be done with synthetic materials
This is fucking genius. I threw away a shit ton of clothes and I wish I’d done this.
I want to do this. 😍