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

[Marc Carlson]

Before is goes much further, what's the fabric consist of?

Wool, cotton and silk will dissolve in bleach at different rates.

With most, if you use a very dilute amount, and as Talana said, go carefully.  Rinse and let the chlorine evaporate out often.

And yes, I said "dissolve".   If you see the bleach foaming, that's just the organic proteins as they are being eaten away.

M/d


I. Marc Carlson
Special Collections
McFarlin Library

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On May 7, 2012, at 3:40 PM, "Ld.blackmoon" <ld.blackmoon at cox.net> wrote:

> greetings
> 
> lol, that was gonna be the next question ...but since it turns out pouring bleach in the sink, and swirling the tunic around in it isn't the right way to bleach it , would puting sa 1/2 gallon of bleach in the tub with say half a tub of hot water be ok ??  for how long ??
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> thanx
> Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
> Arthur
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>> 
>> Piffle yerself, Diarmaid.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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