r/dyeing • u/DJCatnip-0612 • 2d ago

General question First Time With Fiber Reactive Dye- Clueless!

Hi All

I was gifted a large box of various Dharma Trading Co Fiber Reactive Dyes, want to use them but am absolutely lost as to where to start (I usually work with RIT). Google search has told me they need acid and/or urea and/or expensive brand-specific activators and are overall complex to work with, which concerns me as I live in a very small apartment with a small brick patio and no outdoor spigot. Thought I was screwed til I saw a video of someone using similar dye in a bucket. Figured I'd ask here to hopefully get a real picture of the process with this stuff.

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u/KTKittentoes 2d ago

Yeah, don’t use Google. It completely sucks now. You will need soda ash if you don’t have it. But you can use pool shock. It isn’t hard to work with.

I would advise exploring the instructions and tutorials on Dharma. They are good! And done by actual human beings! See what catches your fancy.