Country: USA

Message: Six drapery panels; 65% polyester/35% cotton; fuchsia (color change due to sun exposure).  Can these panels be redyed (fuchsia/deep purple) successfully?


No, this is not likely to work.

Dyeing polyester requires high heat and special dyes. You'd need an impossibly large cooking pot to boil large drapery panels with polyester dye, so you can't do this at home, and I've never heard of any professionals who would be willing to do this. The only professional dyers I know of who will custom-dye polyester in small jobs like this are the Manhattan Dyeing Service, but the only polyester they will dye is undyed white polyester. 

Cotton is easy to dye in the washing machine, but, as only 35% of the fiber in your drapes is dyeable cotton, you will not be able to get an intense color.


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