kool-aid dying...

[SeekerMage]

can you kool-aid dye silk? I want to make colorful play silks out of some 100% silk scarfs....do you know can you kool-aid dye them, and if so how?

[quikeye]

Hi, I think animal fibers work best w. koolaid, but here are a few links on koolid dying (yarn, but has color cards & advice)...

http://www.thepiper.com/fiberart/koolaid/basic-howto.html
http://www.gfwsheep.com/rov.inst/rov.inst.html
http://www.knittersreview.com/article.asp?article=/review/profile/010615_a.asp
http://www.woolworks.org/dyeing.html
http://yarngirl.blogspot.com/2004/04/kool-aid-anyone.html
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall02/FEATdyedwool.html
http://lizzi.freeservers.com/dipdye.html

Knittersreview.com also has a koolaid dying forum you my be able to find help in. Good luck, I'm going to be dying some yarns soon, looks cool!

[NYSarah]

Silk is an animal fiber, and works fine with kool-aid and other food dyes.

This fabric dyeing site has specific instructions on dyeing silk scarves with kool-aid, as well as a list of all the dyes you can use on animal fibers (apparently, wilton cake decorating colors work well). And the yarn color chart mentioned above is a really good reference too.

good luck!