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Tie Dye?

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Half-Blood
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Ok so I have been contemplating trying to tie dye a pair of outerwear pants. However I don't know really anything about tie dye so as I research about it I thought I might as well see if anyone has tried or successfully tie dyed outerwear before?

I guess the hardest part would be finding a dye that will bond with the fabric, and I guess it could destroy the pants as well..
Mar 27 2009 9:58AM
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SEABURN
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snow pants are designed to repel water, so it will never work...the dye won't set into the fabric. it works with cotton stuff, because cotton absorbs moisture/liquid really well. also when you get tye-dye really wet it still might run.

tye dye your tall tees, I did... they're amazing
Mar 27 2009 1:37PM
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chase.
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not true...

a bunch of kids have it at my ski slopes you can use a certain die that will work but i forgot what it was called at the time
Mar 27 2009 3:30PM
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Half-Blood
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Well I was thinking if you washed the pants first a few times then maybe use RIT dye? The stuff kids are using to dye their crowbars.. I figure if you wash them a few times first then the waterproofing will come off making it easier to dye then re waterproof them..

I dunno,  I can't really experiment to much right now seeing as I only have one had due to the fact I just had surgery on my collar bone.
Mar 27 2009 4:43PM
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fragglemuffin
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RIT dye is the way to go....you will definitely have to respray waterproofing onto the pants when the dye dries, but it should work....i dyed my ski boots and several lacrosse heads with RIT and it works wonders
Mar 27 2009 5:05PM
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Calb3rt
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yeah one of my friends dyed one of his jackets orange with rit dye, it was a solid color not tye dye. he put it in the washingmachine and put the dye in where the liquid detergent goes in and then turned it on and it came out really well.
Mar 27 2009 5:09PM
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SEABURN
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i'm talking about actual tye dye. that wouldn't work

RIT might work, try it on a cheap pair from the thrift store or something. & post pics so we can see how it turned out.

good luck
Mar 27 2009 9:04PM
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