Rit Dye Projects
Rit is a leading brand of fabric dye available in a wide range of colors. Rit dye is formulated to be simple to use for home craft makers and is available at most craft and fabric stores. Even if you're new to fabric dying, you can use Rit dyes to dress up not only clothing, but any fibrous craft products and even some wood items.
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Tie Dye
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Use Rit dye in the traditional process of tie-dying white cotton clothing. With Rit dye, you won't have to use a soda and ash solution to get the dye to take; all you need with this product's formula is water. Otherwise, use the standard tie-dye process of bunching up the fabric, securing it with string or rubber bands to create the white tie patterns, and dip into dyes. If you want to use more than one dye, dip different portions of the fabric into different colors of Rit dye.
Wood Staining
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Rit dye is formulated for fabrics, but it makes for an effective and attractive wood stain as well. Since standard wood stains generally come in shades of brown, use Rit dye for wood crafts where you want colors like blue, yellow or lime green. Try this out on items like wood carvings, wooden jewelry and old wooden furniture you'd like to spruce up. Apply by rubbing the dye in place with rags (just like you would with wood stain) and finish with a standard, uncolored wood varnish.
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Canvas Shoes
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Transform white canvas shoes into an artistic fashion statement using one or more colors of Rit dye. Dip the shoes into the dye or paint the dye in place; it will wick through the fabric, but you'll still get some control of the shapes and colors. Also try dyeing the shoes with Rit dye, then creating pale line patterns over the dried areas of color using a bleach pen.
Wig Dyeing
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If you want to change the color of a synthetic hair wig, doll's hair or hair piece, it will not respond to hair dyes formulated for human hair. Instead, use Rit dye and dye the hair as if it were fabric following the Rit dye instructions. You may need to do a little color mixing to get the exact shade you want if you're looking for a natural color; use combinations of white, brown, black, red, beige and yellow for natural hair colors and test on a piece of scrap fabric.
Necklace Hemp
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Dye natural necklace hamp cord using Rit (don't use the waxed stuff; it won't take the dye). Dye a skein of hemp as if it were cloth and weave on its own, or weave with other colors of hemp in a single design. Alternately, finish weaving your necklace before dyeing, then paint the dye in place to give the weave bands and spots of color.
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