Fiber Reactive Dyes

Procedure

1. First we laid out some plastic drop clothes and set up some saw horses on top of them.

2.Next we mixed the dyes to the color we wanted.

3.We then practiced painting the dyes on a piece of silk fabric.

4.Then we rolled or folded another piece of silk and then binded it together with rubber bands.

5.We put dye on various parts of the folded cloth and rung out the excess dye and then unfolded / unrolled the silk .

6.The finished product is a tye dyed piece of silk cloth.

Observations

The dye seemed to run alot while we were painting it on the silk

Reflections

The tye dye part was alot more fun than the painting part.


This page was created by Norman Leach on 04/21/05 (Modified: 04/21/05)