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This may look like an industrial size portion of Strawberry jelly, but is in fact a tub full of Dylon cold water dye in shade Tahiti Rose (plus cold fix and salt) poised and waiting to gobble up the six metres of silk crepe de chine which is going to be Hettie’s bridesmaid’s dress.
Scary stuff. I wanted to get a very pale pink, and was terrified of getting a pink too vibrant. A tin of dye does 250g of fabric, and I dyed about 600g of fabric using about half a tin of dye. I lowered the damp silk in, and then 20 seconds later after stirring frantically and tearing off my rubber gloves because I couldn’t handle the silk properly (luckily my hands are pink anyway!) I lifted it out and put it in a bath full of cold water to rinse:

Then I looped it up and left it to dry over the bath. The colour is darker when wet, and if it dries and is too pale, I can always dye it again:

But more by luck than by judgement, the result is a lovely light pink. Here’s the dry result, freshly ironed (the camera flash has washed it our a tiny bit):

So now to the cutting…

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