Apologies for the delay of this reply. My email has been down for
several days.
E House wrote:
I'd love to know what brand then, because I haven't found it sold by any
of my sources--most of which tell you straight out that their dye won't
work on silk. I've gotten some very lovely dark plums using black
washfast acid dye on silk.
I used Jacquard's acid silk dye. I can't get the Jacquard site to talk
to me right now or I would give you a link.
I do not know whether it would be successful with a washing
machine/stove top setup. It could be that that is the problem you've
had in the past--not enough temperature control? Not high enough
temperature? I'm not a dye expert, so I probably shouldn't try to
diagnose.
The difficult part, as you say, is steam setting. It's not that it's
hard to set up a steam-setting chimney (pot of boiling water, tube of
some kind suspended over it), but doing large yardage is nearly
impossible. The black I've dyed was a relatively small amount for a blouse.
Melanie Schuessler
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