Dyeing a pack
- Thread starter Navek
- Start date
-
BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
Agreed. Although you to me are more an elegant aquiline raptor.Yeh, I noticed that when I looked previously - I wonder why. I don't fancy 'Peacock Green'
Yes I have, I used a large 10k Dixie pot and my fire pit to boil the water (took ages). Then used rit nylon dye. It was a medium sized sling type bag I dyed, it worked surpringly well. It was black and white and I dyed it black all over
Can you make the green they have darker? I was s**t at art so I don't even know what colours to mix together to make alternatives!
I might try the chocolate brown.
In the video I posted he definitely mixed the colours a little.
TBH - I'm ok with it if the MTP comes out as a varying shade of 'Greens' - if not a solid block of one colour. I just dislike the bright trashy look of the MTP.
That was interestingly put
I'm not going to purchase a synthetic colour unless its the one colour I can live with - As Broch eloquently said , something about 'Peacock Green' sounds a little , off.
I recently tried to dye some things brown.
Was put off because the dye - Rit for cotton IIRC - made some of the gear wnd up with a purple tinge, tried with different materials, cotton, denim, polycotton. I am not a fan of this purple hue so stopped.
Was not a back pack but be interesting to see how that as I’d like to do similar.
Some wool gear worked quite well with tea, gave nice light brown.
Was put off because the dye - Rit for cotton IIRC - made some of the gear wnd up with a purple tinge, tried with different materials, cotton, denim, polycotton. I am not a fan of this purple hue so stopped.
Was not a back pack but be interesting to see how that as I’d like to do similar.
Some wool gear worked quite well with tea, gave nice light brown.
Last edited:
I tried to dye some wool black last year and it turned out a really nice dark brown. Beautifully even and stable but not the colour I needed.
Fjallraven says yes.......................- As Broch eloquently said , something about 'Peacock Green' sounds a little , off.
Fat Buddha Store | Carhartt Clothing & Spray Paint
Our brand mix includes Nike, Carhartt, Patagonia, Fjallraven, Edwin, Montana Spray Paint and footwear from Red Wing, Saucony & Adidas, based in Glasgow.
www.fatbuddhastore.com
Yeah, wool blankets take a lot of dye, hence the experiment with tea bags, otherwise costs more than did the blanket itself.
Also tried dying black with what’s basically rusty water - load up a water container with various metal things that’ll rust and you get this murky, and foul, black liquid. Steep the item in this for a long time, even weeks. It was sort of successful, but very patchy, think my technique could’ve been better, maybe could’ve mixed it more.
Fjallraven says yes.......................
Fat Buddha Store | Carhartt Clothing & Spray Paint
Our brand mix includes Nike, Carhartt, Patagonia, Fjallraven, Edwin, Montana Spray Paint and footwear from Red Wing, Saucony & Adidas, based in Glasgow.
That looks a little early 1950's film version of "Robin Hood and his band of merry men" - Tight Green.
Pass from me.
4mins 40secs in -
Mix and match dying ratio chart below - create your very own range of colours by precalculated dye ratios.
You are welcome!!
Mix and match dying ratio chart below - create your very own range of colours by precalculated dye ratios.
You are welcome!!
Last edited:
That's very useful
Thanks!
Interestingly, using the synthetic dyes, to get 'moss green', you need 1 Cup Peacock Green 1/4 Cup Chocolate Brown 2 Tbs Graphite
You forgot:-
Eye of Crow
Newts Tail
Single tear from a heart broken Knight.
So I dyed the pack the other day -;one full bottle of Dark green has pushed it into Jungle green territory. 
Interesting to see what has and what hasn't picked up the colour change - The Mesh clearly hasn't which I found interesting. The Snow Baffle ( not shown ) has changed to Green , the buckles have not.
This for me is an improvement over the MTP , which looks lighter and more garish than in the 1st photo.
However - Mr Bezos has delivered a Rit Dye Tan/Bronce and I've already got the kettle on brewing up some Hot water - So I'm going to redye over the top of this Lurid Green with a 1/4 of a bottle and see what comes out.
I will keep you posted
Interesting to see what has and what hasn't picked up the colour change - The Mesh clearly hasn't which I found interesting. The Snow Baffle ( not shown ) has changed to Green , the buckles have not.
This for me is an improvement over the MTP , which looks lighter and more garish than in the 1st photo.
However - Mr Bezos has delivered a Rit Dye Tan/Bronce and I've already got the kettle on brewing up some Hot water - So I'm going to redye over the top of this Lurid Green with a 1/4 of a bottle and see what comes out.
I will keep you posted
Last edited:
