from what i can gather the vinegar open the pour for the dye to enter. I'm guessing once the dye enter it will stay for ever here is what pacres sent me: Here is what I do.
1. Soak the feather / hair for at least 2 hours with shampoo. Better saturation, and cleaner feathers make for a better dye lot. 2. Rinse the feathers off well. 3. Mix your dye with water. Use a ratio of dye to weight of product being dyed. If your not sure, go lighter. It's really tought to dye lighter. 4. Add the feathers and bring the temperature up to 140 F slowly. Use a thermometer for meat to check it. 5. Make sure you stir it well. 6. Add vinigar about 10% of the water volume 7. Let it sit. I ussually let it sit overnight. It produces intense colours. If it's not dark enough, add more dye and reheat to 140. 8. rinse until it runs clear 9. Add a bit of conditioner to help keep the feathers moist. 10. air dry. turn the hair or feathers and put lots of paper towel or newspaper underneath I will be creating a tutorial that goes into depth at some point soon. I'll keep you posted. dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Reuven Segal Sent: November 12, 2006 2:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [VFB] Dying Feathers with Beets Will I need to treat it with vinegar at the end to seal it all in or is it going to stain and stay stained for a while? R ______________________________________________ Reuven Segal B. Engineering (Aerospace)- Final Year B. Engineering (Manufacturing Systems and Management) RMIT University 5/11 Rockbrook Road, East St. Kilda, 3183 Melbourne, Victoria Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile: 0422 266798 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Alexander Sent: Sunday, 12 November 2006 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Dying Feathers with Beets When I used to make hand made soap, I used beets a pretty good bit, so I think it would work on fly tying material.. We (in soapmaking) also use "turmeric" (sp) to dye a yellow color, Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reuven Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: RE: [VFB] Dying Feathers with Beets > Just jumping on this discussion: > > Has anyone ever dyed materials using Beets? > I put some cutting/skins in water overnight and this morning it was a > perfect colour for what I would like to try on some duns. Anyone can offer > some advice?? > R > > ______________________________________________ > Reuven Segal > > B. Engineering (Aerospace)- Final Year > B. Engineering (Manufacturing Systems and Management) > RMIT University > > 5/11 Rockbrook Road, > East St. Kilda, 3183 > Melbourne, Victoria > Australia > > reuven [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mobile: 0422 266798 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Masson > Sent: Sunday, 12 November 2006 1:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [VFB] Dying Feathers > > > Hi Darren: > Thank i just got a e-mail from rangerbob, he said to get a hold of you. > I'll be looking forward to see the video he said you would be doing,i,ll > try > your style and see what happen,what i'm tring to get is a royal blue on > the > dark side.I'm using white feathers for this we'll see what happen thank > for > your help. > dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pacres > Sent: November 10, 2006 9:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VFB] Dying Feathers > > > I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in on the subject. > > I have not tried the microwave method, but opt not to because it is > much harder to control the temperature. > > Here is what I do. > > 1. Soak the feather / hair for at least 2 hours with shampoo. Better > saturation, and cleaner feathers make for a better dye lot. > > 2. Rinse the feathers off well. > > 3. Mix your dye with water. Use a ratio of dye to weight of product > being dyed. If your not sure, go lighter. It's really tought to dye > lighter. > > 4. Add the feathers and bring the temperature up to 140 F slowly. Use > a thermometer for meat to check it. > > 5. Make sure you stir it well. > > 6. Add vinigar about 10% of the water volume > > 7. Let it sit. I ussually let it sit overnight. It produces intense > colours. If it's not dark enough, add more dye and reheat to 140. > > 8. rinse until it runs clear > > 9. Add a bit of conditioner to help keep the feathers moist. > > 10. air dry. turn the hair or feathers and put lots of paper towel or > newspaper underneath > > I will be creating a tutorial that goes into depth at some point soon. > I'll keep you posted. > > Cheers > > -- > http://flyangler.ca - Canadian Fly Fishing >
