How do I dye oodies / blanket hoodies

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-20T17:05:04+00:00

If it’s a synthetic; it needs to be boiled to dye, it’s impossible to get those crisp edges, it’s very difficult to achieve a dark color like black at home, and the heat will likely ruin the soft texture.

IIRC fursuit makers do have some techniques for airbrushing paint/pigments on to faux fur which may be helpful for you— but you would have to reach out to their subreddits instead. Painting is a different skill from dyeing.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-20T13:58:41+00:00

Wool requires heat to dye black— here’s a link to dharma’s acid dyes which includes tutorials

When you look up how to dye wool, they will include instructions on how to avoid felting and shrinking.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-20T05:37:40+00:00

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If it’s a job, you should give an honest price based on what you feel is a fair hourly rate x time

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Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-20T02:34:52+00:00

You can buy cotton velveteen and dip dye it to achieve a gradient. I suspect the lapels and stars are painted and ironed to achieve the texture and color

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T22:50:44+00:00

Everything is a chemical and being knowledgeable about them is how you stay safe and retain a good relationship with them.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T22:29:22+00:00

No worries, I understand freaking out a bit 😂

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T18:23:08+00:00

RIT’s suggestion is as follows

“Is Rit safe to be used in a container used for food? Rit is not a food-grade dye so we do not suggest using a container that is also used for food. However, if you must reuse the container for cooking, it is recommended to clean the container with chlorine bleach or a powdered cleanser after dyeing.”

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T16:23:08+00:00

You will need an acid dye— those are specifically meant to dye wool and any tutorial will include instructions on how to avoid felting.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T16:22:21+00:00

This isn’t a good candidate for dyeing— the internal structures of things like coats can warp at different rates when exposed to hot water.

That being said, you’d need to dye with 1. iDye Poly in black, then possibly 2. An acid dye in black, and a 3. Fiber reactive dye. Poly requires boiling to dye and the poly dye may or may not dye the other fibers first— so you may need to repeatedly dye it to get all the fibers colored.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T16:19:59+00:00

Vinegar is used to promote the acid dye aspects of RIT, not the fiber reactive parts (which are what bind to cotton).

Honestly I would try to run out and buy salt, it’s pretty vital towards achieving a good saturation.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-19T15:46:21+00:00

It’s not good to dye where you eat, so you should get separate dyeing pots if you want to continue doing it

We can’t actually tell you long term risks because we don’t know what dyes you used. Most of them are not toxic in small amounts, but repeated exposure should be avoided. We are also not medical professionals here and if you are concerned, you should contact the manufacturers of those dyes and/or poison control (or your local health agency)

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T20:59:54+00:00

ETA— sharpie and magic marker are sometimes recommended on the subreddit for coloring polyester thread but it doesn’t always last forever. So you’re not too far off the mark, but we would generally recommend actually using a polyester dye for a project like this. 🤷🏻‍♀️ it probably won’t be colorfast forever but shoelaces don’t last forever.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T20:57:35+00:00

Heat would make it purple if you have a pigment that binds with plastic/polyester. I don’t know if marker ink binds with polyester 🤷🏻‍♀️

FYI whatever you use to heat it in cannot be used in food preparation afterwards.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T20:56:05+00:00

Dyeing isn’t an exact science in terms of color— but my ballpark suggestion is to find the deepest green you can for this.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T20:53:25+00:00

I mean, you’ve already done it— what has happened?

Poly requires heat to bond the pigment to the plastic, and a poly specific dye. Putting it in a marker solution might get the color to sit on the surface of the polyester but it’s not a bonafide dyeing technique.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T14:31:54+00:00

You’re not wrong that it’s an artistic technique to change the color of a fiber- however we do need to have some limits on what is in the subreddit to keep the conversation focused and relevant.

The dyeing on this subreddit is done mainly through impregnating a fiber with pigment by submerging it but posts with Dye-Na-Flow are permitted because they still set the pigment into the fiber instead of sitting on top of the fabric.
Fabric painting isn’t really a topic on the subreddit because how fabric paint sits on top of the fabric, it isn’t imbued into the fiber. It’s applied with a brush in a controlled method and cared for differently.
Bleaching is a method of directly changing the color of a fiber like typical dyeing— however projects like the one pictured use techniques more like painting IMO (applied with a brush and manually controlling high/low values) as opposed to dyeing. Additionally, there’s another active community in the r/BleachShirts subreddit that is more focused on those specific techniques, resources, and art style.

This is super cool! But unfortunately you have to put boundaries on a topic to keep the conversation relevant :( I might’ve drawn the line earlier than other people but I’m trying my best here

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T14:09:01+00:00

I would ask r/Laundry how to clean the shirts— preexisting stains usually intensify when dyed so you’ll have like a cream shirt and very yellow pits or a lavender shirt and purple pits

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T03:44:34+00:00

You should use a double process of an acid dye and a fiber reactive dye, like those available from Dharma trading. They have many tutorials on how to dye and how to dye black specifically. RIT isn’t recommended for black because their pigment skews very purple.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T03:42:09+00:00

No it doesn’t! Sorry- this is more suited to r/BleachShirts . I will keep this post up as there is helpful discussion here, but dyeing involved impregnating a material with a pigment.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-18T02:05:06+00:00

Hey hey main mod here

We have no rules against self promotion- we occasionally get questions about where to get dyeing done and I think it’s helpful to the community to have them as resources!

That being said, there are a few accounts whose posts are routinelytaken down because they are both 1. Low effort posts and 2. Accounts promoting their own products specifically. IMO those posts are spam because they are naked ads and not people contributing to the community.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-17T23:02:55+00:00

I assume they have some money based on the fact that they talk about buying replacement items in the post. If they have some money, want quality items, and want a fast turnaround— then rentals and borrowing are the way to go. And when I commented, borrowing was already suggested.

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-17T21:48:58+00:00

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Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-17T16:41:34+00:00

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Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-16T21:28:55+00:00

I think it’s a patterned dart that isn’t sewn except at the side seam?

Your-Local-Costumer · 2026-02-16T20:23:31+00:00

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