Re-Dying a damaged jacket

Dr. Dave

The wife accidently dripped some Milton onto my new Cordroyed jacket. (well a year ago) It is now light brown with white patch. It wasn't expensive so I'm willing to experiment. Does anyone know how I would remove the dye before dying it black. Will bleach do or will it leave is streaky or destroy the fabric?
Thanks, Dave..

Rockery Woman

Hi!

What you need to do is check the label on the jacket. If it is cotton or mostly cotton it will dye for you.

First though, you need to bleach out the original colour. Buy a big bottle of thin bleach (lidl do it very cheaply) pour it into a bucket and put in your jacket. Leave it for about 2 hours, it should turn a beige/cream colour. Wear old clothes and gloves, leave the bucket outside your house or your home will stink of bleach. Rinse it outside to remove some of the bleach.

Next wash your jacket in the machine on at least 60degrees with a lot of washing powder.

Now you are ready to dye it. Get a packet of Dylon from your chemist. Get the Machine Dye not hand dye. You will also need salt. Pour the salt and dye into your washing machine and wash on 40 degrees as it says on the packet.

One problem you may encounter is the thread used to stitch the sleeves, button holes etc might be synthetic. The thread may not take the dye so you might have different colour stitching on your jacket.

I have used Dylon many times, on jeans, curtains and shirts and it gives a nice even result. You might need to try a few chemists to find a suitable colour. Sam Mc Cauleys stock it.

Good luck!

Sugarbomb

Ask in a dry cleaners/laundrette. They should be able to tell you.

Dr. Dave

Great, thanks for the help.
I'll give it a shot next weekend and see how it goes.
Hopefully I'll be back with a successful post

Dr. Dave

So, the bleach went well. The jacket looked a very light beige. Used a packet of black Dylon dye but it went blue - not enough dye. Anyway, found some other dye I had in the shed for probably 10 years - Punch liquid + fixer. Had nothng to lose so used this as well. Now have a nice black jacket. So thanks for your help.
Dave..

Rockery Woman

Thats great. One pack of dye would be ok for a shirt or light top, how the colour takes depends on the weight of the garment.

Glad your jacket dyeing was a success!