[VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Folks: Can anybody give me the “secret” to dying feathers (and/or fabric) with Rit dye?? What happened is that my son had some dark purple demin material he wanted dyed black. He added TWO boxes of Rit dye to the three gallons or so of water as he had four yards of material to dye. Adde the

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Chuck Get a copy of A.K. Best's book DYING BLEACHING Natural fly-tying materials.  Feathers and cotton do not dye the same way.  Best has full instructions and will take you through it step by step. Gary s - Original Message - Folks: Can anybody give me the “secret” to dying

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

I second what Gary just said. You can find it for fairly cheap too. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:27 PM, aflyt...@comcast.net wrote: Chuck Get a copy of A.K. Best's book DYING BLEACHING Natural fly-tying materials. Feathers and cotton do not dye the same way. Best has full instructions and

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Hi Chuck, Black is a color even pro dyers have problems getting! It's quite a problem. It depends on what you intend to use the dyed material for, and what final qualities it must have, but... I found the easiest solution is to use women's hair dye, the boxed typed sold for women's hair

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Wes: Thanks a lot. Makes sense to me because I would think that a feathers barbs would be closer in their composition than demin etc anyway. I’ll try it. Maybe I’ll try the “just for men” dye and use any leftovers in my hair LOL.. Signed Elvis.. I mean Chuck From: Wes Wada Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Thanks a lot. I love anything by A. K. Best anyway, and didn’t even know he had this book. Chuck From: aflyt...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:27 PM To: mail, vfb Subject: Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ??? Chuck Get a copy of A.K. Best's book DYING BLEACHING Natural

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Just a note: I had some time last fall to spend a couple days at the Spirit River plant and warehouses in Glide, Oregon. The Spirit River dyeing plant is overseen by the EPA, as their dyeing process uses chemicals that are not available to most people. Every step is monitored by the EPA. We

Re: [VFB] Dying feathers with Rit dye ???

Chuck: I've only dyed grizzly hackle one time. I had several grizzly saddles of various quality where I had used up most of the good dry fly hackle and had found an old Ukrainian Easter Egg kit my grandmother had used to make the eggs. There were several packets of dye left including black.