iTieDye: Your Tie-dye Forum
May 25, 2012, 09:10:28 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: If you want to join the forum, respond to your registration confirmation email with a coherent paragraph outlining your interest in tie-dyeing. All registrations without this response will be ignored.
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Visit the new Tie-Dye Wiki! Register and contribute more information!
iTieDye: Your Tie-dye Forum > Fabric, Apparel, Etc > Cotton Fabric, Apparel, Etc. > tapestry fabric
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: tapestry fabric  (Read 797 times)
colorfulsteve
Jr. Member
**
Posts: 98



View Profile WWW
« on: December 02, 2010, 08:12:02 AM »
whats a good fabric for tapestries and can i get it at the average joanns? i usually use muslin cotton but it doesnt take the dye very well. the dyes run and mix together. can you help?
Logged
www.stevensworld.net
brixter
Jr. Member
**
Posts: 52



View Profile WWW
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2010, 05:09:09 PM »
I use muslin for almost all of the tapestries I do....can't say that it's given me any trouble. I soak in soda ash and spin out in the washing machine and then tie damp and dye damp. I buy the fabric at joannes too so I'm at a loss what is giving you the trouble.
Logged
Kenneth Thompson
mustdye
Jr. Member
**
Posts: 94


View Profile WWW
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 12:29:15 PM »
See if they carry the Kona Cotton...
http://itiedye.com/smf/index.php/topic,649.0.html

I really need to do some dyeing...
Logged
~Eric
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!