DYLON 87000-12 Permanent Fabric Dye, 1.75 oz, Velvet Black

I am not a DIY-er. Growing up my mom was a costumer/seamstress and I watched her make hella messes everywhere dying fabric and clothing for the stage, and mom always came out with odd colored hands. I swore I'd never do it, the results might have looked great on stage, but the effort hardly seemed worth it for every day life (which, by the way, did not stop my mom from dying anything she could get her hand on if the mood struck her..!). Because I could never stand the mess it made, I never became a DIY-er - I'm a DIY idiot.Recently I bought a pair of pants that were so nicely cut, I really wished I had a pair in black. I decided to go for it - times have changed, and I'm not running a theater costume shop, there's no need for stress or mess.And I was right. I followed the directions explicitly. Pants were 100% cotton, brand new, so I washed them, but did not dry them. The directions say there's enough dye/dye-power to effectively dye about 1/2 pound of fabric, roughly equivalent to a large shirt or pair of pants. Perfect.I decided I'd push it a little and drop in a light henley that was also 100% cotton and would likely take very well.The pants were olive kaki, and the shirt a kind of muted pewter blue, both dark enough to provide a nice undertone to the velvet black Dylon color. I dyed both items together in a bucket, and was fairly lazy about stirring, but I was sure to saturate both items of clothing. I let them sit in the dye with a couple of extra stirs for an extra half hour, not that I think that did anything, but whatevs, couldn't hurt.Rinsed in cold water, as per instructions, then washed in the washing machine to get the excess dye out. I didn't use detergent, and will wash these clothes with other black clothing, as I'm sure there's plenty of excess dye in them.But the results are fantastic! The pants look incredible, you'd never know I didn't buy them off the shelf in the color they came out. A tip for those who want to do a top notch job - thread, nylon or metal zippers, buttons and decals, none of these things will take dye, which worked out well in my case. The shirt didn't come out black for some reason, but a rich navy blue. I don't think that had anything to do with the dye (for instance, if I used too much fabric for the amount of dye the pants wouldn't have come out as beautifully dark as they did), I think the shirt must have some part polyester or something. In both cases, I won - the shirt looks fantastic, better than when I bought it three years ago and the pants are incredible!I don't want to make a regular habit dying clothes, but I won't be reluctant either. This was a great, no muss no fuss experience with a top-notch result - my clothes don't look home-dyed at all, they look store crisp!One thing I'll suggest to the dying novice: spend an extra couple of $ to get long rubber gloves for the dying/stirring process. I used cheap little ones that went up to my wrists, and while I managed to keep my forearms dye-free, the right hand glove had a tiny puncture and I ended up with an entirely black middle finger on my right hand...ha! Thankfully the dye does wear off skin pretty quickly, so it only lasted a few days..! Whew!

I used this dark green dye on a grease-stained, pale yellow-green, 100 percent cotton dress. I sprayed the dress with water to dampen it, then followed the package instructions for the dye. I let the dress sit in the dye for a few hours (longer than recommended on the package). The dye worked very well. As expected, it did not dye the stitching (probably because the thread contains synthetic fiber) or the printed white plastic design on the dress. The resulting color is slightly more of an olive shade than I expected, but that's probably because the dye color was combined with the original yellow-green color of the dress. A few small bleached areas of the dress were successfully dyed, and in strong light, those areas appear slightly more blue than the surrounding fabric, perhaps because the fabric was nearly white in those areas. I was disappointed that the grease stains were still visible, but laundering the dress a few extra times eliminated the stains completely. The dye also seemed to add some substance to the fabric, making it feel thicker. The dress now receives compliments.

I only gave this dye one star because the color I ordered didn't match at all! I ordered Olive Green. And what turned out was Hunter green. Two completely different colors. I make antique lampshades so this dye cost me 1 yard of very expensive fringe. I have been dying things for years so I'm not new at this. Always use Rit Dye and thought I would try this, because it said it will work on synthetic fabrics...Rit doesn't. Well this stuff didn't work on synthetic well at all! BTW the fringe was 100% cotton. Very disappointed.

I was very happy to find a dye that doesn't require very hot water and machine washing since I didn't want to shrink my new white 100% cotton gauze shirt in the dying process. I was a little worried when the dye initially looked an orange/red color after adding water, but continued on hoping for the best. It turned out a perfect sunflower yellow just like shown on the package! (See picture). Very easy process if you take the time to read and carefully follow the directions. I even rewrote them and looked up how to convert all measurements to US cups and had everything ready before I started. After rinsing until I could no longer see dye in the rinse water, I put the dyed shirt in the washer on the spin/rinse cycle and then hung to dry. It went so well I'm going to order another color for another shirt! :)

Did well on two pairs of NaturalGear pants that have faded. Original color was gray, dark brown and light brown. The dye filled-in the gray that was becoming too bright with light olive color. Original brown colors still show and possibly slightly darkened As planned. Unknown dye longevity.No apparent color fill-in on one older pair of Mossy Oak camo pants and very slight fill-in on another different pair of the same brand.I purposely used one pack on the four pairs in a large black rubber tub and let them sit in the sun for around fours hours outside stirring every half-hour or so. Did this to allow the original darker colors to show and to darken the lighter colors.I plan to try the same color on a HD hunting backpack that has seen a lot of miles, years and use except the lighter colors are faded and becoming too bright Plan to use one pack of dye, take the backpack out and go for round two on the pants that did not take the dye well earlier.