DYLON 87000-12 Permanent Fabric Dye, 1.75 oz, Velvet Black

I am not a DIY-er. Growing up my mom was a costumer/seamstress and I watched her make hella messes everywhere dying fabric and clothing for the stage, and mom always came out with odd colored hands. I swore I'd never do it, the results might have looked great on stage, but the effort hardly seemed worth it for every day life (which, by the way, did not stop my mom from dying anything she could get her hand on if the mood struck her..!). Because I could never stand the mess it made, I never became a DIY-er - I'm a DIY idiot. Recently I bought a pair of pants that were so nicely cut, I really wished I had a pair in black. I decided to go for it - times have changed, and I'm not running a theater costume shop, there's no need for stress or mess. And I was right. I followed the directions explicitly. Pants were 100% cotton, brand new, so I washed them, but did not dry them. The directions say there's enough dye/dye-power to effectively dye about 1/2 pound of fabric, roughly equivalent to a large shirt or pair of pants. Perfect. I decided I'd push it a little and drop in a light henley that was also 100% cotton and would likely take very well. The pants were olive kaki, and the shirt a kind of muted pewter blue, both dark enough to provide a nice undertone to the velvet black Dylon color. I dyed both items together in a bucket, and was fairly lazy about stirring, but I was sure to saturate both items of clothing. I let them sit in the dye with a couple of extra stirs for an extra half hour, not that I think that did anything, but whatevs, couldn't hurt. Rinsed in cold water, as per instructions, then washed in the washing machine to get the excess dye out. I didn't use detergent, and will wash these clothes with other black clothing, as I'm sure there's plenty of excess dye in them. But the results are fantastic! The pants look incredible, you'd never know I didn't buy them off the shelf in the color they came out. A tip for those who want to do a top notch job - thread, nylon or metal zippers, buttons and decals, none of these things will take dye, which worked out well in my case. The shirt didn't come out black for some reason, but a rich navy blue. I don't think that had anything to do with the dye (for instance, if I used too much fabric for the amount of dye the pants wouldn't have come out as beautifully dark as they did), I think the shirt must have some part polyester or something. In both cases, I won - the shirt looks fantastic, better than when I bought it three years ago and the pants are incredible! I don't want to make a regular habit dying clothes, but I won't be reluctant either. This was a great, no muss no fuss experience with a top-notch result - my clothes don't look home-dyed at all, they look store crisp! One thing I'll suggest to the dying novice: spend an extra couple of $ to get long rubber gloves for the dying/stirring process. I used cheap little ones that went up to my wrists, and while I managed to keep my forearms dye-free, the right hand glove had a tiny puncture and I ended up with an entirely black middle finger on my right hand...ha! Thankfully the dye does wear off skin pretty quickly, so it only lasted a few days..! Whew!

I used this dark green dye on a grease-stained, pale yellow-green, 100 percent cotton dress. I sprayed the dress with water to dampen it, then followed the package instructions for the dye. I let the dress sit in the dye for a few hours (longer than recommended on the package). The dye worked very well. As expected, it did not dye the stitching (probably because the thread contains synthetic fiber) or the printed white plastic design on the dress. The resulting color is slightly more of an olive shade than I expected, but that's probably because the dye color was combined with the original yellow-green color of the dress. A few small bleached areas of the dress were successfully dyed, and in strong light, those areas appear slightly more blue than the surrounding fabric, perhaps because the fabric was nearly white in those areas. I was disappointed that the grease stains were still visible, but laundering the dress a few extra times eliminated the stains completely. The dye also seemed to add some substance to the fabric, making it feel thicker. The dress now receives compliments.

I only gave this dye one star because the color I ordered didn't match at all! I ordered Olive Green. And what turned out was Hunter green. Two completely different colors. I make antique lampshades so this dye cost me 1 yard of very expensive fringe. I have been dying things for years so I'm not new at this. Always use Rit Dye and thought I would try this, because it said it will work on synthetic fabrics...Rit doesn't. Well this stuff didn't work on synthetic well at all! BTW the fringe was 100% cotton. Very disappointed.

I was very happy to find a dye that doesn't require very hot water and machine washing since I didn't want to shrink my new white 100% cotton gauze shirt in the dying process. I was a little worried when the dye initially looked an orange/red color after adding water, but continued on hoping for the best. It turned out a perfect sunflower yellow just like shown on the package! (See picture). Very easy process if you take the time to read and carefully follow the directions. I even rewrote them and looked up how to convert all measurements to US cups and had everything ready before I started. After rinsing until I could no longer see dye in the rinse water, I put the dyed shirt in the washer on the spin/rinse cycle and then hung to dry. It went so well I'm going to order another color for another shirt! :)

The cost seemed a little high for material dye, but I was willing to try it on my casual pants that I accidentally splattered bleach on them. It is a black cotton blend jogging wear that I often use around the house during the winter months. There is a YouTube example on how to remove bleach spots using this product. Not wanting to toss the pants or cut them up for grease rags since I only wore it a couple times before the accident. Originally I tried Rit black dye and followed the instruction, but it didn't removed the bleach spots off the front. After reading about this particular dye through YouTube I decided to give it try. The instruction is to add 1 Tsp of the dye and 1 Tsp of salt in a bowl. Mix them up and add warm/hot water to dissolve the two ingredients. Apply the solution on the bleach spot and afterward rinse the clothing. As of today I have tried three attempts using the same instruction. Each time I've seen little bits of improvements. Be careful when using this dye, it is messy and tiny specks seem to fall everywhere which eventually turns a blue color. You can easily wipe it off but it does get on everything. Black magic markers do not work very well. Don't expect a complete transformation on the first attempt when removing bleach spots.

Did well on two pairs of NaturalGear pants that have faded. Original color was gray, dark brown and light brown. The dye filled-in the gray that was becoming too bright with light olive color. Original brown colors still show and possibly slightly darkened As planned. Unknown dye longevity. No apparent color fill-in on one older pair of Mossy Oak camo pants and very slight fill-in on another different pair of the same brand. I purposely used one pack on the four pairs in a large black rubber tub and let them sit in the sun for around fours hours outside stirring every half-hour or so. Did this to allow the original darker colors to show and to darken the lighter colors. I plan to try the same color on a HD hunting backpack that has seen a lot of miles, years and use except the lighter colors are faded and becoming too bright Plan to use one pack of dye, take the backpack out and go for round two on the pants that did not take the dye well earlier.

Been using this dye for over a year now and love it. I had a lot of washed-out black clothes that looked ready to be trashed and after using this dye everything looks brand new and got second life to it. my back cargo pants- awesome! Shirts, jackets, you name it! all my clothes 100% cotton, except one shirt that is stretchy but everything i dyed got very deep and solid black color. in some cases i would use couple packs if i have lots of clothes and i dye it little longer than directions say. I use my crock-pot for this - dissolve dye in hot water, add salt - i add at least a cup of salt per pack of dye, not sure if this is too much but from what i hear salt is what makes the difference here so in my case it worked well. Then turn crock-pot on and keep it there until it almost start boiling - make sure you mix your clothes constantly so it's evenly colored and if you have any metal zippers/buttons - make sure those don't touch fabric since i had one experience when i didn't move much my cargo pants and those metal buttons discolored parts of my pants bright brown so i had to re-dye them again.

I love this dye so much I'm coming back for more colours. I have used it for ice dying like 10 times so far and love the results. Worked well on bamboo bed sheets, cotton tees, I tried on a bathing suit but it didn't work cuz it was synthetic. Bought Bahama blue, denim blue and china blue. I was trying to recreate a indigo dyeing without having to deal with indigo dye so I combined a little bit of Bahama blue with the denim to emulate the difference shades that indigo dyeing will have. I let the colours soak in for about 24 hours considering I was dyeing cold and not with hot water. I prefer it to rit dye but that might be because I prefer working with the powdered dye. TIPs Check TikTok/ Insta/Pinterest for what the colour should look like. You can mix colors together just like paint. NOT for synthetics so double check the material you want to dye.