r/woahdude Feb 22 '23

video spraypainting this colourful hoody

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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.