Name: said
Message: bon jour
          felicitation pour votre site

          J'ai des echarpes mosline de couleures jaune bleu roug ...je voudrais les transformez en noir. J'ai essaye les resultas : 1m sur 50cm devient 70cm sur 30 plus deformation et pas facile a repasser.        merci 

What are the scarves made of? Muslin is usually made of 100% cotton, but not necessarily. Are your scarves 100% cotton?

What kind of dye are you trying to use? Is it a hot water dye? If you use a cold water dye, you will have less difficulty with shrinkage of cottons.

Good types of cold water fiber reactive dye for cotton and other plant fibers include Procion MX, Drimarene K, Cibacron F, and Remazol. Any of these will work. I like to use a black dye called Remazol Black B, also known as reactive black 5. It is a very good single-hue black dye for use on natural fibers; like most dyes, it will not work well on 50% cotton/50% polyester. Here in the US, we can buy it as "Dylon Cold Water" dye or "Dylon Permanent" dye; in Europe it is commonly available as "Dylon Washing Machine" dye (unfortunately not available here). It can also be mail-ordered from Tobasign dyes in Spain, Batik Oetoro in Australia, or PRO Chemical & Dye in the US. See "Sources for Dyeing Supplies Around the World".


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