I‘m trying to dye some sheer chiffon bows. What would be the best kind of dye to use for doing this?
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It depends on what fiber your chiffon bows are made of. Silk chiffon is incredibly easy to dye, but polyester chiffon is almost impossible to dye. Chiffon, like satin, is a description of how the thread is woven together to make the cloth. It tells you nothing about what fiber the fabric is made from. Silk chiffon is easy to dye using either acid dyes or fiber reactive dyes. A good tie-dye kit will work just fine. You can even use Rit all-purpose dye on silk, though it does not work well on cotton, and Rit dye will fade much faster in the laundry than another kind of dye for silk, called Lanaset dye. Polyester chiffon can be dyed only with a special kind of dye made for dyeing polyester and other synthetics. This dyes is called 'disperse dye', and it cannot be purchased at your local crafts store. In the US, you can mail-order disperse dye from PRO Chemical Dye or from Aljo Manufacturing. You will have to boil your polyester chiffon bows for an hour with the disperse dye, using a non-aluminum cooking pot large enough to allow the fabric to move freely, but you should never use a dyepot for food afterwards. You can also use a kind of fabric paint called Dye-Na-Flow, a paint which flows like a dye, on your polyester chiffon bows. This will not require boiling.
