a lovely 3/4 lenghth cream satin dress i would love to dye and wear again any ideas please


Name: cara
Message: Hello i have studied your site at lenghth, and have desperately sought to resolve my issue. I have just got married and have a lovely 3/4 lenghth cream satin dress i would love to dye and wear again any ideas please. thanks

No idea, without knowing what the fiber content of the satin is, nor what its washing instructions may be. "Satin" is a weave that can be made from any fiber; it is completely uninformative to say that a dress is made of satin.

Silk satin is easy to dye. So is cotton satin. Nylon satin is not too bad. Polyester or acetate satin dresses are essentially undyeable. A "dry clean only" dress is not dyeable.

See my page on "Dyeing Polyester with Disperse Dyes".

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Posted: Sunday - September 24, 2006 at 08:20 AM          

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