Name: Cate
Message: Hello, What a wonderful website that you have! I am thinking about dying sheets this summer using the low water Immersion technique. I absolutly love the example that you have of the blue and purple. I went onto the prochemical website and didnt know how much dye to order for this project. I would much rather have too much dye than not enough. They had a deal on Rainbow Gradation kits and a nine dye set kit. (both are the MX dyes that you recommended) I was wondering if you could clear things up for me about what to order. Thank you VERY much.

If you get too much dye, I'm sure you'll find a good use for it!

Here's a page at Fiber-Arts.com on "Tie-Dye: How much Dye?".

PROchem also has a page of LWI instructions which indicates quantities. They also state, "Two ounces (58 gms) of dye will color 14 yards of cotton muslin to a medium shade in a solid shade dye bath, or 12 T-Shirts."

Weigh your sheet set (perhaps by weighing yourself with and without it). If you like the depth of shade shown on the color chart at 4% OWG, say, then multiply the weight of your sheet set by 0.04, and that's how much dye you need, total. This is easier to do if you convert the weight of the sheets to grams (450 per pound). For example, ten pounds of sheets = 4536 grams, so you'd need a total of 181 grams or 6 ounces of dye to dye ten pounds of 100% cotton sheets. (I have no idea how much a set of sheets weighs.) You'd need twice that for black, or much less for pastels.


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