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Options for a RED red!!!

OK, my mom wants me to tie-dye some shirts for my brother and his family in their school colors, since they often go to sports events. Colors are red and white.

Thing is, so far most of the reds I've tried have haloed some yellow. I've done them with fuschia and a bit of lemon yellow (Jacquard colors), with scarlet, with fire engine red (which went pink on me).

I toyed with trying fuschia and bright orange (if memory serves, bright orange is a pure color) to try to minimize the halo, but before I try it on this or that bit of fabric and then don't manage to get the proportions "just right" again, I thought I'd ask if anyone here has better options.

TIA,
Deb

By deb at 2008-11-15 20:45 | Color mixing | Procion MX dyes and other fiber reactive dyes | login or register to post comments | previous forum topic | next forum topic

Forgot to mention

Forgot to mention and for some reason can't go back and put it in: the red I'm looking for is more or less crimson, blood-red, but NOT at all burgundy. I tend to think of scarlet as a bit on the orange side, and that's not the right color either.

Deb
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By deb at Sat, 2008-11-15 20:48 | login or register to post comments

options for a RED red

Look at this post from July 2006:
reds
Chaos posted a beautiful gradation from ProChem's Boysenberry (which is a pure color) and ProChem's Tangerine (yellow MX-GR). Also look at my post in the same topic:
mixing a true red.

There's more than one way to mix a true red. Fuchsia (red MX-8B) plus lemon yellow is the very worst, if you want to avoid yellow halos! Fuchsia strikes faster than any other color, and yellow MX-8G fairly slowly, so the yellow really tends to creep out beyond the fuchsia. Red MX-5B causes less trouble with haloing of the colors it's mixed with. See the chart I posted showing the reaction rates of Procion MX dyes for the numbers for some of these dyes.

If you add a little orange to the fire engine red that went pink on you, and (this might be crucial) use more dye powder, it should get you to the color you want. Any red will give you pink or peach if you don't use enough dye. Red is a very intense color; if you don't get it intense enough, you will see it as pink or peach (depending on how orangish it is).

Paula

By pburch at Sat, 2008-11-15 21:47 | login or register to post comments

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