Heat

[Lelia187]

What is the perfect temperature for tie dyes to cure at? What happens if the temperature is lower or higher than what it is supposed to be?

[Lelia187]

Yeah... I just totally noticed that Paula already covered this topic. Sry for not reading...

[Lelia187]

How hot is too hot?

[pburch]

If it's not hot enough to damage the fabric, it's probably not too hot. Even if the dye doesn't particularly like high temperatures, it reacts so quickly while it is warming up to those temperatures that it's done before it's too hot.

You want to give the dye enough time to soak into the fibers before you apply high heat. Otherwise you can get ring-dyeing, in which only the outer surface of each fiber gets dyed. That causes it to show wear amazingly quickly.

Nver mix Procion MX type dyes in water that's more than lukewarm. Hot water can encourage the dye to hydrolyze in the water before it gets anywhere near the fabric.

Paula

[Lelia187]

Thanks