[Northkeep] anyone know how to fix bleach splatter on a tunic ?

Jennifer Carlson talana1 at hotmail.com
Mon May 7 13:26:21 PDT 2012


Piffle yerself, Diarmaid.
 
You can bleach the whole thing and re-dye it, as that M/d guy suggested.  If you do, however, do NOT just soak the garment in straight bleach.  Dilute it and take your time getting the dye out.  Straight bleach can eat through fibers, even if it didn't seem to on the spots that got hit.  You don't want to go to all this trouble only to find that the fabric has been weakened.  Laundry bleach is a solution of lye treated with chlorine gas.  It's not as caustic as the lye in drain cleaner or that you make soap with, but it's pretty stern stuff. 
 
After bleaching, launder the garment in hot water with a good detergent a few times before dyeing, to be sure you get all traces of bleach out of the garment, or it will intefere with the new dye.
 


Alternatively, Rit makes a dye-stripper called "Color Remover."  It may not take all the dye out, and there is a chance that, once you re-dye the garment, the bleached area will take up the new dye differently than the rest of the garment.
 
 
Talana 		 	   		  


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