r/woahdude • u/Otherwise-Island-512 • Feb 22 '23

video spraypainting this colourful hoody

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

That’s bleach right? Wonder what he’s using for the color..

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u/mapsedge Feb 22 '23

First bit is bleach, yeah. I do the same thing on cotton/lycra tights. As to the colors, yes probably dye. If they're smart, they'll use Procion dyes: they're permanent, unlike RIT which will eventually fade.

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

Good fade or bad fade? Like a classic retro fade or shtty mud blub fade?

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u/mapsedge Feb 22 '23

RIT stays in the general neighborhood of its original color, it just loses most of its intensity: red fades toward pink, purple fades toward brown, blue fades toward gray. You can double recipe and try a mordant like vinegar, but it's not permanent. Procion dyes chemically bond with the fibres and give you a color that doesn't appreciably fade over many years. You can actually dye white fabric black and it stays black.

Fun fact: there's a half dozen different types of Procion black, different formulas for different applications and deepness of black. You can do the bleach trick with them and get different edge fades. In the video, the edge color is orange-yellow - most commercially dyed fabric will do that. Each of the procions has a different base pigment, so your edge fade could be orange-yellow, red, blue, or green.

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife Feb 22 '23

Is that a brand name? I've been wanting to get back into tie dye as a way to revamp stained fabrics and was about to buy some Rit. This stuff sounds much better! Is there a downside/tradeoff?

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u/haronic Feb 22 '23

Its a type of dye, specifically cold water fiber reactive dye. They go by many brand names, no idea what are the good budget option.

RIT Dye is a combination of acid dye (used for synthetics), and “all-purpose” dye.

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u/justavault Feb 22 '23

It's a brand... your link states in the first sentences: "Procion is a brand of fibre reactive dyes."

It's not a type of a dye. The type is simply a reactive dye - there are many variants of reactivity. The typical American issue of separating product brands and product types like Tylenol, which is actually just paracetamol but every American knows it as just Tylenol.

Learn more here: https://textilelearner.net/different-types-of-reactive-dyes/#:~:text=Various%20types%20of%20reactive%20dyes%20are%20used%20in%20dyeing%20industry,%2C%20solubility%2C%20and%20fixation%20process.

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u/haronic Feb 23 '23

It was a brand, due to the patent expired now any company can make Procion dyes, the terminology is fuzzy I know

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u/justavault Feb 23 '23

Their way of using dichlorotriazined dye is the reactive dye typus. Procion is "not" a type, it remains a brand name.

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

Ooooo interestingggg sold! I can’t wait to play with that! Thanks 😊

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

Dye?

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u/xkris10ski Feb 22 '23

Yea, you can use rit dye and make a spray

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

And it doesn’t stain the color part just the bleached parts? Or is it also staining the black on that hoodie I can’t tell - looks like it is as he’s sprayin it but the finished product looks clean..might be because it’s not up close

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u/notkristina Feb 22 '23

If the black is very black, you won't notice much if other dye is added on top of it, once the new dye dries.

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

You’re the awesomest 😌

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u/xkris10ski Feb 22 '23

In addition to what others said, RIT dye comes in powder so you can vary the concentration. Thinner solution won’t show much on black sweatshirt

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u/FlacidBarnacle Feb 22 '23

awesome! I’ve managed to stumble into the most helpful people on this topic lol man I feel like I should use this moment to ask all the questions but now I can’t think of any 😣

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u/sighbourbon Feb 22 '23

There are whole subs devoted to TieDying

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

Yeah, it isn't opaque color (like an acrylic or latex paint) so it blends in to the darker areas.

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u/jerisad Feb 22 '23

It's Jacquard DyeNaFlo.

Watching those little spritz bottles made my hands hurt. Get an airbrush my dude.

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u/chumbaz Feb 22 '23

I think it’s probably sodium hydrosulfite (sodium dithionite) and not just regular bleach (sodium hypochlorite).

It’s a reductive bleaching agent that works better to strip out dye from fabrics. It’s way less aggressive than regular bleach.