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- Method One. Fast Track
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- Mix dye, water and fibre.
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- Wait half an hour.
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- Add soda ash and stir.
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- Leave for an hour and rinse and wash.
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- Simply follow the basic method. Add your hot water and fabric and dye to a
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- container. Wait for half an hour and then add the soda ash. Wait for an hour and
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- then rinse in cold water and then wash in hot. Use a good quality detergent such as
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- Synthropol.
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- Method Two. Slow and Comfortable
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- Mix dye, water, fibre and soda ash.
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- Wash out sometime after four hours - whenever you get to it.
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- This method is handy if you want to work on something later but have to go out
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- now, and can't hang around to add the soda ash. Use the same amounts as for the
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- first method but just throw it all in together. If you are using a vat method as
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- opposed to a low water immersion technique, then add some salt (about 1 cup per
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- bucket) to help the dye find the fibre. A little detergent to lower the surface tension
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- helps here too.
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- Method Three. Whatever will be, will be....
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- Soak fabric in soda ash solution.
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- Apply dye as and when you get to it.
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- Batch somewhere warm.
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- Wash out when you think it's done.
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- For a basic soda ash solution soak, mix 9 imperial Tablespoons, or 100g of soda ash
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- in a bucket of hot water. Soak the fabric in the bucket for up to an hour. Hang out to
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- dry before use. You can now apply the dye, any way you want to. Add a couple of
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- teaspoons of urea to the dye solution before you apply it to the fabric to help keep
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- the dye wet so that it can react with the fibre. You can sponge, spray, paint or print it
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- on. Roll it up in plastic and leave to batch in a warm spot for at least 4 hours. The
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- longer the better.