Jacquard Acid Dye, 1/2 oz., Periwinkle

Css as my wait to dye stuff with this dye.

I bought it to dye some clothing. The color came out great! Easy to use!

Dyed a cashmere sweater and it turned out great.

I use this shade of red very often. I use acid dye (activated by the mordant you choose, acidic like household vinegar or powdered citric acid, the main ingredient of kool-aid.) to custom color my fibers for spinners. This shade, Fire Red, is indispensable. I also use the Country Classics brand of dye, but for a nice warm tomato red, I add this color by Jacquard. The only reason that I'm giving this less than five stars is the price. I can easily use up half of this size container when mixing up my dye stock. I also use kool-aid and Wilton's gel colors for my acid dyeing. (This type of preparation works best with protein fibers like wool and silk, and it does a beautiful job on undyed firestar (superfine nylon, adds a bit of sparkle). You can use the "acid" dyes like this one for other fibers too. Just change your mordants to those compatible with plant fibers like cotton and linen. (Instead of vinegar or citric acid, use a small amount of soda ash.) My other tip is this: try dyeing your wool top or roving in a very low oven. I soak my wool in lukewarm water with just a few drops of blue Dawn dish soap. Squeeze out only the excess water, it's important to keep the fiber wet. The dye travels much faster through wet fiber free of lanolin (alpaca doesn't have any). I apply my dyestock, wrap my fibers in heavy plastic wrap and then heavy aluminum foil. Bake in a big casserole dish, covered, in 225 degree oven for one hour, 90 minutes max. Allow the wrapped fibers to cool very slowly, then rinse very gently. My wool stays incredibly soft.

My daughter and I dyed a thrifted Pendleton sweater that had some light stains. We used all the dye and intentionally wanted it to be darker so as to cover the imperfections of the garment- it turned out a lovely scarlet!It launders fine and holds the dye well.Just do some basic research on how to properly dye the fabric you are working with and it should turn out great! So glad we did this!

After prepping fiber for over a month, washing, combing ,carding I was so excited to dye my merino wool. A beautiful Salmon cor was exactly what I was looking for to blend in some Alpaca grey.This dye is GD hot pink, not Salmon. Not even a pretty hot pink, but a hideous cheap hooker hot pink. A months work put in trash barrel. This dye is a front to the color spectrum.

This is the brand ill always use.And shipping was good.

I was very excited to try this dye out. I bought a white lace kimono that I wanted to dye burgundy for a photo shoot. I used the dye as directed in the website and it the color was more like purple not even close to burgundy. The dye was very even on the fabric and looked amazing, not spotty at all. It was just the wrong color. Unfortunately I had to buy another lace kimono and start over. So that was disapointing.

purchased for a particular project to dye hand spun yarn

Just like it says on the tin, nice pinky, orange. I dyed a pastel-ly type shade by using a small amount and a rather stronger orange using more, and over dying with ecru. If you like experimenting with orange-y tones this is a nice one.

Dyed up some bamboo / merino yarn. Colour was what I think of when I imagine periwinkle. Lavendery, sky-ey blue. I love it.

Im excited to put this dye to work dying elastic. I have heard its the best you can get for elastic dying.

Easy enough to use but rather disappointed in the colour having faithfully followed the instructions.