I watch a yarn dyer too, amd she recommends wearing a mask when working with ANY powders, including food coloring & drink powders! Pretth much any powder is bad in your lungs, no matter how non-toxic it may be in other contexts. And for those wondering, food coloring (at least the synthetics available in the US) work very well as an acid dye for proteins (wool, angora, cashmere, silk, nylon, etc).
Wish I had found this months ago, great ideas and tips without the narcissism! Wonderful, thank you.I have wheelbarrow envy, we can’t get them as deep as that in the U.K.
It's a very beautiful experiment ❤️ Just FYI for anyone else attempting this, you want to keep the object in the dye bath on the heat for at least 20 minutes, so the dye can set into the fabric. If you take it off the heat source too soon, there will not be enough heat for the dye to react. You shouldn't have any dye left in the bath when you are done and when you rinse your object, the dye should not leak. If it leaks, put it back on the heat for a few more minutes. That's why you calculate dye ratios, to get all the dye into your object. Also, as mentioned in the video, dye is toxic, so you want to exhaust your dye bath (pick up all the dye molecules) before you throw out the water.
Great tips! Couldn’t exactly build a fire under the wheelbarrow ;) I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone successfully completely exhaust a dye bath so the water is clear-even at professional dye shops. Do you have a video on that process?
@@RedthreadedCorsets yes, you couldn't make a fire 😂, so the information was more for other DIYers. I do have a tutorial with cotton yarn, but it's in pieces, on Instructables, so I need to edit it into a full tutorial before I can make it public. Here is the instructable, if it helps. It's crap, I know, but at least you can see that the water is clean, with just a slight tint of color because I was impatient. Usually it gets yellowish once the bath is fully exhausted. www.instructables.com/id/Easily-Dye-Cotton-Yarn-in-a-Speckled-Gradient-Usin/
I wondered the same about the chair. Imagine what would happen if a poor soul sits on it and ends up with a bubblegum-colored splotch on his/her rear!! 🙈🤣
Since that dye has multiple colors mixed to make the red and it’s enough dye to dye much more fabric than you had, you will likely get a result like this if one of the dyes “strikes” more quickly than the others. Often red strikes more quickly than blue. Counter-intuitively, you may have ended up with a redder result if you had only used a small amount of the dye (or if you added a large amount of fabric to the dye bath, such as including a bath towel). I learned this when trying to use an olive green dye. I used too much dye, and since the red struck the fabric first, I ended up with brown instead of olive green. Fabric can only take up a finite amount of dye, so if more red takes up those “spaces” on the fabric first, there won’t be enough spaces empty for the blue. If the amount of dye is limited to what is needed to dye the fabric, you will get a result closer to what’s expected. If you don’t want to weigh, you could just try adding part of the dye at a time to give the blue time to strike. However, I would pull the garment from the bath before adding more dye and stir in the additional dye completely into the bath well before adding the garment back in.
I am very interested in buying one of your plus size corset patterns most likely the 1700s pattern. Would you be willing to make a video that shows the differences of a plus size vs a standard size?
The thing was dying multiple fiber types is that you have to use a dye that will die all of them at once. Or you will have to die the different fiber types individually before you assemble your item. Most synthetic dyes that will die the polyesters and rayons will die cotton then might not die the same shade so that's why you want to dye them individually. Also anything that you use for dying must be labeled and only used for dying again. So that pot and little wooden spoon cannot be used for food ever again. It will leach out the dye stuff into your food if you ever use it for cooking. Also it's a little bit safer if you use a liquid dye, it's the same as the powder dyes but since it's not a powder that vaporizes into the air for your lungs to breathe into and get on places it's a safer option.
Yep, great tips! That’s my dye pot and spoon-would never use them for food!!!. I took dye classes in college which covered safety. I figure most at-Home DIY dye-ers may not have access to a bunch of different dyes, so showing what happens to different fibers with one packet of easily bought dye is useful. Our corsets are 100% cotton so no issue there.
I’d love to do a more in depth dye video in a true dye setup, with different types of dye, fibers, equipment, etc. but that’s a much bigger production than this, and not something I will have access to for a long time with the current state of things.
Have you considered trying acid dyes like Dharma, Greener Shade (environmentally friendly), Jacquard, or ProChem with a mordant like citric acid? They are more colorfast, allow precision in color mixing, and are very reliable (less breaking of colors). I use them when I dye wool, cotton, and other fabrics. I thought the corset/stays turned out lovely. Well done dyeing in a wheelbarrow. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Yes of course, I've done a lot of different dyeing particularly in my university classes on the subject. But, I was working with what I had, in a pandemic! Dyeing is a huge subject, and would take many videos to cover all the different options.
The dye says red. She said on purpose she would do less time, because she wants it to be pink. My guess is if she dyed the corset longer, it would have come out raspberry red.
What an interesting process! I've never dyed anything before. Could you save the dye water and re-dye it again for a deeper color or is that just the color it's going to be with that batch of dye?
i dyed a cotton-poly dress that's been colorfast for many years--i was shooting for a more vibrant pink than this, but i was smart enough to take what i got and call it a win. i added vinegar when i washed out the dye, and i used a hot iron on the dress once it dried. i'd love to know if these two things would work on a corset or if the heat would leave marks on the fabric because of the steel bones.
You can press them somewhat, but it's a bit tricky with the bones in there. This dye bath would likely not get much darker--there's only so many dye particles in a packet of dye. If I was set on actually getting a true red color, I'd use a different brand of dye, and much more of it.
It's quite possible that the metal from the wheelbarrow reacted with the dye and made it look a different color. Better to use plastic because it doesn't react
Interesting...most professional dyers I know use large metal soup vats and the like. It makes sense but I’ve never heard of a metal reaction, then again it’s not like a wheelbarrow is cooking grade 🤣 Though I’ve heard from others that this dye brand’s “red” always comes out very fuchsia .
I was wondering this too. Different kinds of metals can have a huge effect on natural dyes but I don't know if the same thing is true of synthetic dyes
For my wheelbarrow? Lol. No, I don't have a good dye setup anywhere, so on the occasional times when I need to dye something, I rig up something like this.
I've washed corsets for years and years in theatre. If the steel is correct quality for corsets, they won't rust. Otherwise, wouldn't one be worried about sweat?
@@menrlynrou3007 it depends on the fiber content of the satin. Fiber content is the most important thing to consider with dyeing. Many satins are polyester so you’d want to find a dye like iDye that would work on it if that’s the case
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I would love one of these “let’s see what the hell this comes out like” custom dye jobs. Maybe add that to your atelier portfolio 😂😂
Perhaps someday if we stop doing in-person events forever, I'll throw all the fit samples in a rainbow of dye colors!
Yes! Use what you have around you. lol. Wheelbarrow dyed corsetry.
i love love love that pink!!
thank you!
thats such a pretty colour, it looks like a fuchsia red.
I watch a yarn dyer too, amd she recommends wearing a mask when working with ANY powders, including food coloring & drink powders! Pretth much any powder is bad in your lungs, no matter how non-toxic it may be in other contexts. And for those wondering, food coloring (at least the synthetics available in the US) work very well as an acid dye for proteins (wool, angora, cashmere, silk, nylon, etc).
I dyed the lace for my matron's dresses (with the help of my Matron of Honor) and it was very stressful but turned out perfectly.
Wish I had found this months ago, great ideas and tips without the narcissism! Wonderful, thank you.I have wheelbarrow envy, we can’t get them as deep as that in the U.K.
I have a pale brownish yellow corset and I'm excited to dye it. This was fun to watch 🙂
It's a very beautiful experiment ❤️ Just FYI for anyone else attempting this, you want to keep the object in the dye bath on the heat for at least 20 minutes, so the dye can set into the fabric. If you take it off the heat source too soon, there will not be enough heat for the dye to react. You shouldn't have any dye left in the bath when you are done and when you rinse your object, the dye should not leak. If it leaks, put it back on the heat for a few more minutes. That's why you calculate dye ratios, to get all the dye into your object. Also, as mentioned in the video, dye is toxic, so you want to exhaust your dye bath (pick up all the dye molecules) before you throw out the water.
Great tips! Couldn’t exactly build a fire under the wheelbarrow ;) I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone successfully completely exhaust a dye bath so the water is clear-even at professional dye shops. Do you have a video on that process?
@@RedthreadedCorsets yes, you couldn't make a fire 😂, so the information was more for other DIYers. I do have a tutorial with cotton yarn, but it's in pieces, on Instructables, so I need to edit it into a full tutorial before I can make it public. Here is the instructable, if it helps. It's crap, I know, but at least you can see that the water is clean, with just a slight tint of color because I was impatient. Usually it gets yellowish once the bath is fully exhausted. www.instructables.com/id/Easily-Dye-Cotton-Yarn-in-a-Speckled-Gradient-Usin/
Very well handled. Go with what you have and make it work the best you can. The color is lovely.
I would add that acid dyes and the like are much much more colour accurate compared to rit or supermarket stuff!
I’m dying to know how you cleaned out the wheelbarrow after that! Is your driveway pink? 😂
There may or may not have been a spot back by the alley that looked a bit murder-y...
I wondered the same about the chair. Imagine what would happen if a poor soul sits on it and ends up with a bubblegum-colored splotch on his/her rear!! 🙈🤣
Since that dye has multiple colors mixed to make the red and it’s enough dye to dye much more fabric than you had, you will likely get a result like this if one of the dyes “strikes” more quickly than the others. Often red strikes more quickly than blue. Counter-intuitively, you may have ended up with a redder result if you had only used a small amount of the dye (or if you added a large amount of fabric to the dye bath, such as including a bath towel). I learned this when trying to use an olive green dye. I used too much dye, and since the red struck the fabric first, I ended up with brown instead of olive green. Fabric can only take up a finite amount of dye, so if more red takes up those “spaces” on the fabric first, there won’t be enough spaces empty for the blue. If the amount of dye is limited to what is needed to dye the fabric, you will get a result closer to what’s expected. If you don’t want to weigh, you could just try adding part of the dye at a time to give the blue time to strike. However, I would pull the garment from the bath before adding more dye and stir in the additional dye completely into the bath well before adding the garment back in.
I LOVE THE SHADE IT TURNED OUT!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰
I am very interested in buying one of your plus size corset patterns most likely the 1700s pattern. Would you be willing to make a video that shows the differences of a plus size vs a standard size?
The thing was dying multiple fiber types is that you have to use a dye that will die all of them at once. Or you will have to die the different fiber types individually before you assemble your item. Most synthetic dyes that will die the polyesters and rayons will die cotton then might not die the same shade so that's why you want to dye them individually.
Also anything that you use for dying must be labeled and only used for dying again. So that pot and little wooden spoon cannot be used for food ever again. It will leach out the dye stuff into your food if you ever use it for cooking.
Also it's a little bit safer if you use a liquid dye, it's the same as the powder dyes but since it's not a powder that vaporizes into the air for your lungs to breathe into and get on places it's a safer option.
Yep, great tips! That’s my dye pot and spoon-would never use them for food!!!. I took dye classes in college which covered safety.
I figure most at-Home DIY dye-ers may not have access to a bunch of different dyes, so showing what happens to different fibers with one packet of easily bought dye is useful. Our corsets are 100% cotton so no issue there.
I’d love to do a more in depth dye video in a true dye setup, with different types of dye, fibers, equipment, etc. but that’s a much bigger production than this, and not something I will have access to for a long time with the current state of things.
Best DIY dye video I've seen!!
That was a fun experiment! Thanks for sharing!
Call the experts at Dharma Trading Co for dyeing questions.
That’s a great resource for sure! Have shopped with dharma for many years.
I love how resourceful usa costume folks are 🤣
Have you considered trying acid dyes like Dharma, Greener Shade (environmentally friendly), Jacquard, or ProChem with a mordant like citric acid? They are more colorfast, allow precision in color mixing, and are very reliable (less breaking of colors). I use them when I dye wool, cotton, and other fabrics. I thought the corset/stays turned out lovely. Well done dyeing in a wheelbarrow. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Yes of course, I've done a lot of different dyeing particularly in my university classes on the subject. But, I was working with what I had, in a pandemic! Dyeing is a huge subject, and would take many videos to cover all the different options.
It’s really pretty, but whomever labelled that dye is colourblind 😂
The dye says red. She said on purpose she would do less time, because she wants it to be pink. My guess is if she dyed the corset longer, it would have come out raspberry red.
That has to be one of the cleanest wheelbarrows I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂 The corset looks great!
I feel better about my janky sewing/crafting techniques now
What an interesting process! I've never dyed anything before. Could you save the dye water and re-dye it again for a deeper color or is that just the color it's going to be with that batch of dye?
i dyed a cotton-poly dress that's been colorfast for many years--i was shooting for a more vibrant pink than this, but i was smart enough to take what i got and call it a win. i added vinegar when i washed out the dye, and i used a hot iron on the dress once it dried. i'd love to know if these two things would work on a corset or if the heat would leave marks on the fabric because of the steel bones.
You can press them somewhat, but it's a bit tricky with the bones in there.
This dye bath would likely not get much darker--there's only so many dye particles in a packet of dye. If I was set on actually getting a true red color, I'd use a different brand of dye, and much more of it.
@@RedthreadedCorsets thank you! :)
I think I used this same color on my bar towels
It's quite possible that the metal from the wheelbarrow reacted with the dye and made it look a different color. Better to use plastic because it doesn't react
Interesting...most professional dyers I know use large metal soup vats and the like. It makes sense but I’ve never heard of a metal reaction, then again it’s not like a wheelbarrow is cooking grade 🤣 Though I’ve heard from others that this dye brand’s “red” always comes out very fuchsia .
I was wondering this too. Different kinds of metals can have a huge effect on natural dyes but I don't know if the same thing is true of synthetic dyes
Would it be appropriate for you to add some narration by Jeff Foxworthy? I love this so much. Thank you.
😂🤣
Are you thinking of fume hoods?
For my wheelbarrow? Lol. No, I don't have a good dye setup anywhere, so on the occasional times when I need to dye something, I rig up something like this.
If the dye is toxic as a powder, isn't the water toxic, too?
Yes, but you won’t inhale or drink the water (I hope!)
Emerald green or amethyst purple - dye or find the right fabric?
If you know ahead of time what color you’d like a corset to be, it’s always easier to have it made in the right color fabric :)
Hey, did you add salt to the dye? What’s that for, a mordant?? Should I be doing that when I use Rit dye? 🧐🧐
Yes, I did add salt which you can see me doing on video. This was per the instructions on the dye packet. I can’t remember if RIT recommends the same.
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I thought you weren't supposed to get corsets wet because they would rust???
I've washed corsets for years and years in theatre. If the steel is correct quality for corsets, they won't rust. Otherwise, wouldn't one be worried about sweat?
Would these work on some type of satin?
Dye results depend on the fabric, fiber content, dye used, methods used, etc. without more info it would be impossible to say.
@@RedthreadedCorsets well, would regular fabric dye work on a not thin nor thick satin
@@menrlynrou3007 it depends on the fiber content of the satin. Fiber content is the most important thing to consider with dyeing. Many satins are polyester so you’d want to find a dye like iDye that would work on it if that’s the case
Would the dye bath cause the corset to shrink in size?
We pre-wash our coutil, so no, no noticeable shrinkage.
@@RedthreadedCorsets Oh now that is really cool!