Is there any way to dye white fabric 52% polyester 48% cotton a deep red or paprika color?
If I can only achieve a pastel (pink) from using scarlet red tintex dye, would re-dyeing it in coffee deepen the color? There is a way, but the expense and bother are unlikely to be worth it. The 48% cotton in your fabric can be dyed in one step with a fiber reactive dye such as Procion MX dye, or an all-purpose dye such as Tintex Hot Water dye, but the polyester cannot be dyed with regular dyes. The result of dying only the cotton, and not the polyester, would be a color half as intense, which would be a pink color. You could then dye the polyester in your fabric with a different kind of dye. Polyester can be dyed only with special dyes made just for synthetic fibers, known as disperse dyes. No cotton dye of any sort can produce any deep color on polyester. Typically, all of the cotton dye will wash out of the polyester, leaving the polyester its original color. Disperse dyes can be applied only with very high heat, the temperature of boiling water or higher; getting a deep red on you
If I can only achieve a pastel (pink) from using scarlet red tintex dye, would re-dyeing it in coffee deepen the color? There is a way, but the expense and bother are unlikely to be worth it. The 48% cotton in your fabric can be dyed in one step with a fiber reactive dye such as Procion MX dye, or an all-purpose dye such as Tintex Hot Water dye, but the polyester cannot be dyed with regular dyes. The result of dying only the cotton, and not the polyester, would be a color half as intense, which would be a pink color. You could then dye the polyester in your fabric with a different kind of dye. Polyester can be dyed only with special dyes made just for synthetic fibers, known as disperse dyes. No cotton dye of any sort can produce any deep color on polyester. Typically, all of the cotton dye will wash out of the polyester, leaving the polyester its original color. Disperse dyes can be applied only with very high heat, the temperature of boiling water or higher; getting a deep red on you
