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Mon, Jul 12, 10 at 19:10
| I'm so SO glad I didn't wash this with the other laundry!! I went to wash a skirt, by hand, did my thing, laid it on a towel. Well it DYED the towel blue. So I washed it again in a bucket with Tide and it turned the water dark blue, over and over again rinse after rinse. its drying now, I let it sit with tide and cold water. Is this eventually going to stop? The bleed that is... |
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| You need to add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the bucket of water and soak it. I do this with my jeans before the first wash so they stay dark. |
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| Actually you can stabilize the color. If a dye runs, soak the garment for an hour in 1/2 gallon of water to which you've added 1/2 cup vinegar and 1/2 cup salt. If rinse water shows color, repeat. This is good for a single-colored fabric or madras. If the item is multicolored, dry-clean it. (American-made fabrics are unlikely to run, but fabrics from abroad are sometimes risky.) |
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| "Actually you can stabilize the color. If a dye runs, soak the garment for an hour in 1/2 gallon of water to which you've added 1/2 cup vinegar and 1/2 cup salt. If rinse water shows color, repeat." Does this also apply to items that explicitly state that the dye is "designed" to fade/bleed? It seems that some casual shirts of mine had that tag. Yet here I read fading isn't desirable while faded shirts & pants are desirable & fashionable?! |
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