Steve, have you ever done a series comparing different blacks, as you've done with reds or blues or purples?
Recently I did a couple of LWI black shirts that came out very different from each other, one with some rather old black MX-CWNA mixture, and another with Dylon Permanent Black mixture (am impulse buy), which is a mixture of
Remazol reactive black 5 and a little Drimarene Orange K-3R reactive orange 64. The black MX-CWNA mixture spread out into different shades of rust and navy, while the black Dylon Permanent mixture stayed a neutral black even where it was diluted into grey. (The results are pictured on my Dye Forum
here.)
What I'd love to see now is one of your salsa-jar series of a given color, comparing some or all of ProChem's black mixtures - Cotton Black 602A, Black (Reddish) 604, Black (Bluish) 608, Deep Black (Greyish) 609, and Silk Black 610 (Olive). I have some ProChem Liquid Reactive Dye Black 50% LR604, which is the pure Remazol reactive black 5; it would be a great addition to the series, since it is the only single-color reactive black dye we know of that can be used for room-temperature dyeing, including tie-dyeing. Unlike all the others, it will not separate out into different colors as it spreads on the fabric.
Paula
