Dye Acrylic Yarn?

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:27:16 -0500, "Dixie Sugar" spewed forth :

Nope.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

Yes, I read that somewhere, Stella, that onion pee;s make a nice yellow. Have you ever tried it?

Higs, Kather> you could use onion peeling,( the yellow onions).

Whoops! Obviously, I mis-typed. LOL I meant to type "peels".

Higs, Kather> Yes, I read that somewhere, Stella, that onion pee;s make a nice

But if you can't dye acrylic yarn, it makes no difference, does it?

Shelagh

Hey, thanks for all the replies. I wonder how you dye with marigolds? I have some blooming right now.

I've never tried it, but wayyyy back before pantyhose were invented, college girls with two non-matching nylon stockings could boil them together in a saucepan and the dye would migrate so the stockings would match. I have absolutely no idea whether this would work with acrylic.

If you have any luck, let us know.

=Tamar

wow that must have been some dye, or rather....."not"

Els

Well, see, I have never dyed any yarn, so I really don't know about that. If it can't be dyed, then how do we get different colours?

Higs, Katherine

I love those books.

Higs, Kather> No I have never tried it ,I have a book that has different thingd you

Would you be able to use RIT dye?

Higs, Katherine

It takes commercial, chemical dyes, but not the make at home out of your kitchen cupboard type ones.

sue

Maybe, since it works on fabric of all types. Try mixing a small amount of dye with a piece of the acyrilic.

sue

Right on the nose Katherine, they are dyed in the factory with chemicals and heat etc. Some of this dyeing can be done at home, and some of it is easy and some of it is very involved. Acrylic dyeing is left to be done in a factory. All of it done at home needs to be done away from the cooking areas, where you serve regular foods. You use different utensils for the dyeing then you do for cooking. Even when you use such items as onion skins. The reason for that is that you need a mordant to open up your fibers to take the dye from the onion skins. I do my dyeing outside on a little camp stove and an old stove top. All the dyeing pots are also only used for dyeing. Natural dyeing, done with plant materials means steeping the plant materials for over an hour after you have soaked it overnight. When you dye wool, you will approach it differently than when you dye with cotton. Etc.

So yes Acrylic yarns can be dyed, not at home though

Els

Katherine, Rit is a union dye, in it they have packed dyes that will dye cellulose as well as protein and man made fibres as nylon etc. Because they are trying to cover so many basses, they are not very strong. I also think that it does not include acrylic yarns, but you can read up on that one. Acrylic yarns being hard to dye in the first place

Els

With synthetic yarns, do they dye the yarn after it is spun or is it done earlier in the process before the fibers are extruded? (Extruded may not be the right word.)