black floss

I have never had any trouble with any of the DMC colors bleeding. Occasionally we hear of this happening with some of the strong reds, but I have never heard of it happening with either the DMC or Anchor blacks. I can vouch for this personally, in that one of my maidens, The Naked Maja, used some 22 skeins of black, DMC 310. I washed it thoroughly in Tide as I always do, and there was no sign of any trouble. HTH.

-- Jim Cripwell. From Canada. Land of the Key Bird. This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter, shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

Thank you Jim. I am so pleased to not have to test it myself and do so thank you for doing that for me !!!! barbie

I always use Anchor and have never had any colours bleed, including black. HTH. Best if you wash in luke-warm water rather than hot, all the same.

Pat P

My sister just finished a baby afghan of the Baby Disney characters.....lots of black DMC on Baby Mickey and Baby Minnie. She washed it in cold water and a small amount of lemon joy and her colors stayed fast.

BonnieBlue

Depends upon the maker in my experience. What brand.

What brand do you like?

But never ever use lemon detergent when you've used metallic threads -- they'll tarnish.