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?
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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?
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/koo...sic-howto.html
http://www.gfwsheep.com/rov.inst/rov.inst.html
http://www.knittersreview.com/articl...e/010615_a.asp
http://www.woolworks.org/dyeing.html
http://yarngirl.blogspot.com/2004/04...id-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!
Silk is an animal fiber, and works fine with kool-aid and other food dyes.
This fabric dyeing site has [a href="http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/FAQ/drinkmix.shtml"]specific instructions on dyeing silk scarves with kool-aid[/a], as well as a list of all the dyes you can use on animal fibers (apparently, wilton cake decorating colors work well). And the [a href="http://www.thepiper.com/fiberart/koolaid/colorchart.html"]yarn color chart[/a] mentioned above is a really good reference too.
good luck!