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Do you know where I can get my wool coat dyed?

  • 09-05-2013 9:41am
    #1
    Ms. Chanandler Bong
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    Hi there,

    I have a knee-length camel-coloured wool coat that I would like to have dyed black. I bought it a few years ago in a sale - impulse buy!:( & love the shape & cut of it but now I can't see past how much I dislike the colour.

    I'm based in Sligo & have asked in dry cleaners in the area with no joy. I don't mind so much where you are with your solution as I will make my way there just for this purpose alone :)

    Thanks in advance for any help or advice you might have :)


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  • #2
    Wibbs
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    You'll hopefully get better answers here C

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  • #3
    looksee
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    I don't think you will get a dry cleaner to do it, too risky. I also would not think you will get a satisfactory black, it will look a bit dingy. Go for a darker colour in the brown/ornage-red range, not anything with blue in it - such as blue-green, purple, crimson. And don't try to go for too precise a colour as the existing yellow/red tones will affect it.

    If you are really fed up with it and prepared to risk it, the best bet would be to try and do it yourself. Get a large plastic container - one of those things they sell for carrying garden rubbish around, kind of large thin bucket with two little handles, tescos were doing a cheap one the I have used for dying. Don't try machine dying, do it by hand.

    Use the Dylon hand dying dyes and follow the instructions carefully, especially weight to dye quantity, you will probably need two packs. Don't use the dye liquid hot or you will shrink the coat, and do keep it moving or it will be patchy.

    Things like stitching, lining, trims and buttons will come out a different colour - which is one of the reasons dry cleaners will not touch the job.


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