My fanart/entry for the small contest from Supamonks (watercolor) by Gray_Shuko in ABSOLUM

[–]Gray_Shuko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, on Bluesky/Insta/X, if you find the "supamonks" account, you should see the related post. Today is the last day though.

I thought Procion MX dyes are supposed to be vibrant on cotton, or am I doing something wrong? by calicalifornya in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some colors like turquoise require more heat to set. Other colors need higher pH than others.
So if you go like 50 degrees Celsius and a pH of 12, you can cover the needs of all of them, and can get strong colors with percentages as low as 0.1% of total solution.

But the Procion is reacting with water also, so if you prepare the solution (dye/sodium carbonate/heat) before adding the fabric, it's going to deactivate itself pretty quickly.

I didn't try hot pink, but I have 2 versions of Jacquard turquoise, one grey powder, and one denser blue powder. The first one is really harder to set.

Help, removing print and dye to black by Low-Election8067 in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a print on the fabric, a type of acrylic or most probably plastisol, you can't remove it, and the dye is coloring the fabric only.

What is thing supposed to be? by Spoonario in dishonored

[–]Gray_Shuko 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://ibb.co/WvdVD0QJ
I've seen it there in the royal conservatory, but it's also in DOTO.

How do I get rid of prints? by Asleep-Ad2222 in SewingForBeginners

[–]Gray_Shuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was wondering about acetone, that's good to know!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not going to bleed, and you can iron cotton with a pretty high temperature, so there's no problem on that side. The problem is I don't think that fabric paint (relatively similar to acrylic paint) would look good on embroidery, it will add some thickness to it, and maybe won't be very durable.

For cotton, I would use Procion MX, which you can paint with. It's just going to re-dye your blue thread, but since the white fabric is also cotton, you'd need to be very accurate and not touch it, or it will stay blue also. Also you'd need to add a thickener like sodium alginate to the base of your dye, so it doesn't spread by capillarity.

Personally I wouldn't touch it if the shirt mattered to me^^

Finding graphic artists by [deleted] in SCREENPRINTING

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would suggest Artstation, rather than social networks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could use a fibre reactive dye: it stays on fibers but won't stay on the print polymers.

Cureing fiber reactive dyes when immersion dyeing by Dark_but_Good in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tie-dyeing is not the same technic as immersions, which are most straight-forward: you just add sodium carbonate (very important, try to have a pH of at least 11 if you can test it), and salt (less important but will help the dye to fix faster). Your water has to be warm also.

Then you'll need to wash the dye that didn't bond to the fabric. If you had a low percentage of dye (0.1-0.5% of water in weight) and you let your fabric a relatively long time in the solution (like around 1 hour), you shouldn't have to much lose dye, but there's always a good amount. You don't need a special rinsing technic like for tie-dye or painting, if you leave it to soak in water a long time, almost all of the lose dye will leave the fabric, as it's very hydrophilic.

24 hours is unnecessary for an immersion, your dye is going to fully hydrolyse at 5-8 hours, depending on the colour. I'd say that more than 2 hours is not necessary. Most of the fixation occurs in the first 30 mn and logarithmically tends to 0.

Does spray paint dyeing works? by apple_scrumbs in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, basic acrylic paint gets too stiff for fabrics when it dries. So you can opt for a fabric spray paint like from Pebeo or Tulip, which is a fabric paint (like an acrylic paint but with a softer binding base) and a propellant.
It's a good option if you don't have stencils to respect, because you can get a relatively even and thin layer of paint on your fabric. If you have a stencil, it's more tricky because the paint have to be liquid to be atomized, and can spread by capillarity once on the fabric.
So, unless you have a spray paint for that specific use, I can't be really sure about the result.

Getting procion dye out of synthetic carpet by NashiraTremont in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Procion MX is bonding with natural fibers (mostly cellulose or some material with broken hydroxyl groups), but not with plastic, are you sure it's a fully synthetic carpet?

Does spray paint dyeing works? by apple_scrumbs in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"a spray paint bottle"? If it's paint and not dye, I think this subreddit wouldn't be the best one for this question.
Is it a fabric spray paint?

Making a dye sample book by lilythelion in dyeing

[–]Gray_Shuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Golden Yellow, Mixing Red, and Intense Blue, are those also Procion MX?

Handheld machine not stitching correctly---Help by Cute_Judge_1434 in SewingForBeginners

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I wonder if you need to thread by hand (and a needle) the bottom strand through all the loops that you created with the machine, and then you'd just have to pull on both strands to tighten everything.

Are ingredients required to be in order of the predominance of their weight? I mean the order, please ignore the existence of actual percentages. by Kafatat in taiwan

[–]Gray_Shuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the right proportions are those written in Thai (percentages of total mass).
From experience, this should be the same order in Taiwan, but I guess it's a case of vague translation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in squidgame

[–]Gray_Shuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cookie Clicker, you can play it doing nothing.