hello my name is Steve with a company called Colorado wholesale tie today we're going to teach you how to do solid color diet in a bucket with reactive type dyes and I'm going to dye a pair of jeans black and Diane thing's black you think would be the easiest thing to do in the world but in the dye world it's really almost the hardest thing to do black dye tends to be a mixture of a red yellow and blue dye all mixed together to hopefully on your fabric come out black and with black dye in order to get good strong black colors in general you need to use relatively more dye than you think you would compare it to just normal rules of thumb of dyeing a normal rule of thumb of dyeing first say a strong bright color when you're dyeing fabric with reactive dye is maybe an ounce of dye will do a pound of dry fabric two really strong bright shades and that's true when you're doing dealing with colors like turquoise or a blue or a green or or an orange or something like that but when it comes to dyeing things like blacks and browns you really need to use a lot of dye to really get good results and what I'm going to do is I'm going to dye a pair of jeans I've cut the pair of jeans in half and I'm gonna dye have to have two pair of jeans with a pretty strong mixture of black dye but I have a feeling that won't be quiet enough and you'll see what that looks like and then I'm going to dye the other half of the same pair of jeans with enough dye hopefully that it will come out black and then you'll see what that looks like when you use the proper amount of dye so what I'm using and what I sell is called a reactive type guy and what a reactive dye is is the best kind of dye for plant based materials materials like cotton linen rayon have anything to start out life as a plan was woven into a fabric a reactive dye is the best kind of dye for that kind of material and the reason reactive dyes are so good on cotton or plant-based materials is because they work through a chemical reaction where the dye becomes part fabric so once you've dyed the fabric and after you washed out the least I that didn't fix the fabric no more dial come off the fabric so when I'm done down at my jeans and after I've washed out the least I too didn't fix to the fabric I can throw my jeans in a lottery letter white clothes and the dice not going to come off and run the laundry so that's why you use reactive type dyes on cotton because they're permanent when I sell are called a cold water reactive dye and in the world of dyes cold water doesn't mean cold water out of the tap it really means warm water and the ideal temperature for a cold water reactive degrees is around a hundred degrees which is about what you take a hot bath in so that's where you start what I've done is I fill these two buckets up with with warm to hot water and roughly 100 degrees I just used hot water out of my tap and the buckets have been sitting here for a little while so it's fairly warm water so if I touch it it's it's about the texture I take a bath in and that's good so that's a good temperature for the dock for the dyeing process what I'm going to do is in this book and I'm going to put two ounces of our tie-dye black and what what I've done is I've filled the bucket with enough water so that when I put the jeans in the in the water the the I can stir the jeans through the water and they'll flow freely through the water so my color comes out even but I haven't put so much water in the in the bucket that's going to dilute the dye because the more water you have the more dye you'd need to get the same concentration of dye strength so in this bucket a mess but two ounces of dye I've weighed my jean fabric in each leg weighs about 12 ounces and so under rules of thumb of how much dye to use maybe an ounce of dye for a normal color would would dye these beautifully but again we're using black and black something you want to use relatively more dye to get a strong bright color so in this bucket I'm using what a rule of thumb might be two ounces for this 12 2 ounces of die for this roughly pound of dry fabric and you'll probably see that that's not going to be quite enough in this spectrum they put four ounces of got a black dye which is really kind of overkill when you're dealing with rules of thumbs of dying but it's really probably the proper amount as we'll see when we're done so in this bucket I'm going to have warm water about up to here and I'm going to add two ounces of black dye I'm just going to put it in there and stir it up so I put the dye in first and then I stir the dye bath top to dissolve the dye you want to really make sure the dice well dissolved in the water so you don't get little spots on your fabric so your color comes out looking good so I put two ounces in that bucket and this bucket I'm going to put four ounces of our tie-dye black dye so I'm just putting all that dye in there now I'm going to stir it up now a couple things before I started I prepped my space I put newspapers on the floor so I'll make a mass you want to use common sense when you're working with dyes dyes are messy things you know you know you want protect your workspaces you want to protect your hands must be you know you should wear gloves when you dye stuff I guess I'm used to working with dyes without gloves so I'll probably put some on when I have to put my hands maybe down into the dye some people are allergic to dye powders powders of any kind when you're using them you don't want to breathe in so when you're working with dye powders you should wear a dust wrist mist respirator to keep from breeding the powders once you mix the dye up with the solution you're not going to be breathing the digest so it's okay to just work with without the mask after you've put it in my water okay so now it made to tie bass I've got pretty well does I'm pretty well this off I'm going to stop the camera and show you what the what the guys look like there's my two that made my divestment to die in the warm water and now I'm going to put my jeans in each dye bath these are cotton jeans and so they're appropriate some be dyed with this black dye with reactive type died and I put the pants in and I'm just gonna stir them around you can use a plastic spoon and I'm just stirring it around in the dye bath now can I have enough water in this these buckets so I can fully immerse the jeans in the water and stir them around then they float float pretty freely through the water so the colors should come out pretty even if the if they were bunched too much up or I didn't stir them quite enough the color will come out uneven the other thing you have to think about what dyes this guy's not like paint where thy covers up the color that's their die blends with the color that's there so if I have these blue jeans and I would want to die yellow or something they come out looking kind of green because the yellow when you cover up the blue that would blend with the blue and yellow and blue make green now with black on the jeans something I really worry about the blue too much we're just gonna dye them up and have them come out however they come out so now I'm stir it up to jeans and you'd want to do this during this Bo say for around 5 to 10 minutes it's kind of whatever comp makes common sense to you the more you stir it the more even your shade will be you know the more you work with it probably the better you'll do one thing you don't want to do is say oh I'm just going to get these really black and let them soak for a long time you don't want to just walk away and leave the buckets the jeans in the bucket to just soak for a long time without stirring them because then your colors will come out very uneven so stir them it's ok to stir them up leave them sit for a little bit but you want to do more stirring than laying them says I'm going to show you what this looks like so I have my jeans in the bucket and I'm dynam and I've stirred them up pretty good okay the next step in the dyeing process and solid color dyeing is you can add salt to the mixture and what salt does doesn't really set the dye or anything like that but what it tends to do is drive the dye out of the water into the fabric so when you want deep shades the more salt you add the deeper your shade will be normally so I paid about half a cup of salt for each dye bath and when you add salt you don't just pour all the salt you're going to pour in all at once you pour a little bit at a time so that your color migrates into your fabric evenly so the slower you do it in the more smaller steps and then you stir in between adding salt then the more even your shade will be so I'm going to add a little bit of salt to the dye bath and I'm gonna stir it up and when you add salt you can have just regular salt you buy at the grocery store doesn't matter if it has iodine in it or not and under technical kind of dye recipes for deep shades you could add up to a hundred percent of the fabric weight and salt to get deep shades if you're dyeing a pound of dry fabric you can add up to say about a pound of salt now that's quite a bit of salt so I don't usually have that much but I'm just add some salt here so I have to saw stir it up real good then I'm going to add some more salt then I'm going to kind of condense this do this pretty fast so you want to sit here all day watching me add salt to the mixture okay now I'm add salt to the dye bath now again we're dealing with reactive type dyes and with reactive type dyes again the reason they're so good on cotton is because they work sour chemical reaction where the dye becomes part of the fabric and so since we're working with a chemical reaction here we have to add a fixer material that sets that causes the chemical reaction that sets the dye the fixer you use with reactive type dyes is a common chemical called sodium carbonate sodium carbonate like a common chemical that's found like in laundry soap or mr. bubble bubble bath so it's kind of like working with a laundry soap kind of material that looks like this and each of these dye baths I'm going to put about 3/4 of a cup there's technical diet recipes that call when you had sent ash to a dye bath that you need to would normally add say about 15% of the fabric dry fabric weight in soda ash but that's under ideal conditions with you know kind of dedicated equipment and stuff so I usually have more than that and with this bucket and I'm just gonna have 3/4 of a cup to each dye bath okay now you would add the fixer just like you had the sake you don't want to pour it in all at once and have uneven colors come out so you pour it in a little bit at a time stir it up and then pour in a little bit more I'm going to do it kind of fast so I thermally do it a little bit slower than this but for video sake I'm just gonna do it pretty fast now again the city of carbonates gonna cause a chemical reaction that sets the dye in the fabric actually 3/4 of a cap in this little buckets an awful lot but now if you got died for me I'd sent you instructions on how to do all this and my instructions doing all these steps where I say you know five to ten minutes here you'd be doing this dye job for half an hour 45 minutes if you followed all the instructions exactly like I wrote them obviously I do things a little bit faster what you really gotta do is just kind of use your own rhythm your own common sense how much work do you want to put into it and how even you want the color to come out but if you follow the steps if you do them a little bit faster kind of like I'm doing in this demonstration I'll probably work out okay again I'm kind of rushing through this but anyway okay so now I've added all the dye the fixers with salt and everything to these dye baths and I stirred them up quite a bit basically when you get to the end of the dyeing process after you stirred the fixer in for a little while to set the dye the next step would be is now you have to wash out the least I the didn't fix to the fabric and the process there's pretty easy although it's time-consuming it's a big job to wash out the loose die so what I'm going to do next is when I figure out done dyeing this I'm going to go to my sink I'm going to pour the dye out and I'm going to pour that jeans right in the sink with it and I'm gonna start rinsing them with cold running water and that's the helps to start the washing process to wash out the least die and the fixer and the salt that didn't fix through the fabric so I'm going to rinse the fabric firm thoroughly under cold running water then I'm going to increase the water temperature to warm and I'm going to rinse out as much least as I can by hand under cold running water in the sink and then I'm going to finish washing out the least die by washing the fabric in warm soapy water to wash out the least I now know wash them as many times as I need to until I washed out all these die and although I've watched that all beliefs die when I you know make a wash bath of soapy water and no more dye comes out so you want to watch as many times as you need to tell the dye stops bleeding now and then once you get to that product that time you're done so I'm gonna go ahead I'm pretty much done with the dyeing process here I'm going to turn off the camera and we'll go to the sink and we'll wash out the least I didn't fix to the fabric okay now I've dyed my jeans black and two different strengths in two different buckets are pretty much done except now the last step in the dyeing process is to wash out the least I that didn't fix the fabric so then I'm here at my sink what I'm going to do and I put gloves on now because I'm gonna handle the dyed fabric so I'm just going to pour it the dye down the drain is treated by a wastewater treatment plant and then I'm going to start rinsing the the fabric this first pair here is the one I did in two ounces of black dye now it looks pretty good you know the jeans look nice and black looks like it's strong enough stuff like that but you can never really tell what color you dyed something until you're done so we can't really judge if those look black or not they look really nice here but we'll see you after I've washed out the loose dye and their Drive what they look like so I'm gonna just go for it out and I'm just gonna start rinsing them so I'm doing that I'm going to watch out my back a little bit let me use my bucket to help me wash out and rinse out the leaves back now the thing about reactive dyes this is permanent on cotton part of the plant-based materials like a linen/rayon town but it doesn't dress like polyester or nylon very well polyester at all that won't doesn't really stick to this plastic bucket I rinse it out the loose dial our respect comes off the fabric and that's normal then it just keeps coming out and have it out so to save a little bit of water I mean it's her written together the and now I'm using warm water I started out with cold water if you were tied down you really started out with cold water because cold water will slow down the dying process or stop the dying process with cold water so I usually risk eyes eyes in cold water so the cars don't run together so the dye that's coming off the fabric for a while in fact and now I'm going to get the other bucket and use the same thing with the poorhouse thing you die and what's pretty much the same as the two out pour it all out here's a phone call be right back all right we've been washing up this loose dye that didn't fix the fabric when we dyed our black jeans for our jeans black I've been rinsed in rinsing when washing up a loose died after you done dyeing something's a huge job and you just have to keep at it till you're done I put both pairs of my keys and this rinse water nap so I can rinse them all the guys wash my ball together once I've rinsed a lot of the loose tire rinse the fabric really well with plain water then I start to add soap to help wipe out all the least I and the soap we use is that a real specialist in that surfactant called Center Paul detergents and it's a special surfactant used in a lot of dying situations you don't have to have Center Paul we just use it cuz we have it if you don't have central use regular laundry soap to help you wash out the loose time so I'm going to add some Center Paul detergent and then I'm going to know that it's kind of warm to hot water to help me watch out all the we've done now the reason why we there is a reason why we rinse the loose I rinse the fabric with this plain water before we add the detergent for some reason we have a lot of salt in your fabric and you eat use the dye if you had to turn it right away this turgid and the salt combined together and to lift some of the dye back off the fabric so you want to rinse the fabric really well before you start washing the fabric with any kind of soap make sure you rinse out all the loose salt and stuff from the back so now I'm making just a warm soapy bath if I had a washing machine here I'd use that where I just throw the clothes washer and wash it like I'm washing clothes then I wash it warm to hot soapy water and again what I'm doing now is just walking out the loose dye so that then fix to the fabric now what's reactive dye you'll get to a point where you've washed out of all this dye once you've washed out at least I know Lord I'll come off the fabric so that's your goal in the washout process is to wash out all these dye so when you wash the clothes with other what the died clothes with other clothes that I doesn't come off and hurt your other clothes but that's the good thing about reactive dyes is you can get to that point where once you've washed out at least I know Lord I'll come off the fabric so again I'm washing this and warm soapy water still a lot at least I coming off the fabric so I'm not going to make you sick here and watch me wash out all list I'm going to wash them a few times and then at some point I'll get to washing it so the water is coming out pretty clear it's gonna black it still comes out really black looks like it to that point if I had a dryer and throw the clothes to the dryer and I'd be done you don't have a dryer here so I'm just gonna hang them up and dry and then once what's their Drive washed out all blue sky and they're dry I'll show you what they look like and you can see what the finished product looks like alright I'm pretty much washed out all the least I this is mix knit fabric spent waters getting pretty clear you can see the water in the bucket it's pretty clear when I rinse it so I just wanted to show you before I dry it on what they look like they look really awesome when they're wet but you can't really tell you're not done with the dyeing project and you won't know what it really looks like until they're dry a couple other things to point out when you're dyeing clothes reactive dyes only dye the cotton parts a lot of times the the threads so fabric together and as a decorative thing on jeans are made from polyester and when you buy the jeans black the the trim threads don't die at all because they're polyester threads now I can't even tell really which of these pairs of jeans I use the two ounces of black on or the four ounces now while they're wet but we'll see what they look like when they're dry you really can't tell how things look when they're wet when they're dying because they always look really good so next time I come on they'll be dry okay well here's the end result of the solid black dying in a bucket there's the two pieces of fabric as you can see the threads that sewed the fabric together that are polyester and so they didn't die at all they stayed purely whatever color they started with this is the one that was two ounces of black in a bucket and that color came out a little bit light and a little bit bluish this was the four ounces of black in a bucket came out quite a bit better quite a bit blacker so that's what we saw two different blacks out of the store we sell tie-dye black something we call tie-dye black and something we call solid black the tie-dye black is too black on the left and the solid black is the black on the right and so this is the tie-dye black this is the solid black now from this distance solid black tends to look a little bit better a little bit blacker and darker the tie-dye black is a little bluer but if you're to look close I don't know if I can zoom in close enough the tie-dye black is a very uniform black it doesn't separate out much colors and it doesn't have spots within the black so it works pretty good for tie-dyed the solid black again looks a little bit better but what happens in the solid black as you can see it can get some spots in it it can get some little red spots and some uneven tone so generally when you order black we sell you the tie-dye black and not the solid black