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The reason this is “small” is because the color is highly pigmented. This style of dye is for people who are experience with fabric dying or are willing to learn new techniques. This isn’t the run of the mill RIT dye. This is for making your own fabrics, high quality interesting dyed garments. I’d look into the benefits of soda ash, urea and other additives that make your fabric dye even more effective.When I put the wool into the pot (small quantity, four long stings) that bright blue color I saw in other reviews showed up, I was excited. But then it said I needed vinegar, and all I had was apple vinegar, and as soon as I added it, the color went to a dark blue. I continued stirring hoping it would wash out in the last step back to that original blue, but nope, it just got darker. As you can see my wool strings are now black, and therefor are useless. I’ll have to buy everything again and use a different die, or maybe reach out to customer service (if they have any) and figure out what I did wrong (I loved the original blue color).Their stovetop directions say “Prewash fiber. Use about 2 gal. of water for 1 lb. of fiber (am I supposed to derive some sort of formula based on these quantities??). Mix die (the whole bottle??) into hot water and stir. Add Fiber. Heat to near boil (180 deg). Add 1/4 cup of vinegar (any vinegar??? White vinegar only? Am I supposed to use some sort of formula??) or pre-dissolved citric acid. Stir for 30 min. Let cool. Rinse in warm water.”I use this shade of red very often. I use acid dye (activated by the mordant you choose, acidic like household vinegar or powdered citric acid, the main ingredient of kool-aid.) to custom color my fibers for spinners. This shade, Fire Red, is indispensable. I also use the Country Classics brand of dye, but for a nice warm tomato red, I add this color by Jacquard. The only reason that I'm giving this less than five stars is the price. I can easily use up half of this size container when mixing up my dye stock. I also use kool-aid and Wilton's gel colors for my acid dyeing. (This type of preparation works best with protein fibers like wool and silk, and it does a beautiful job on undyed firestar (superfine nylon, adds a bit of sparkle). You can use the "acid" dyes like this one for other fibers too. Just change your mordants to those compatible with plant fibers like cotton and linen. (Instead of vinegar or citric acid, use a small amount of soda ash.) My other tip is this: try dyeing your wool top or roving in a very low oven. I soak my wool in lukewarm water with just a few drops of blue Dawn dish soap. Squeeze out only the excess water, it's important to keep the fiber wet. The dye travels much faster through wet fiber free of lanolin (alpaca doesn't have any). I apply my dyestock, wrap my fibers in heavy plastic wrap and then heavy aluminum foil. Bake in a big casserole dish, covered, in 225 degree oven for one hour, 90 minutes max. Allow the wrapped fibers to cool very slowly, then rinse very gently. My wool stays incredibly soft.Easy to use and true to color. This is the second dye I’ve used from this brand and now I won’t use anything but. Wanted my wool dreads to be blood red and I’m beyond stoked about how they turned out.Outside of the fact that Ritz dye has become impossible to find around my area and it was hard to apportion when coloring real tiny items, these Jacquard Acid dyes seem to be more intense, do not smell and don't bleed at all. I am only dying thin strings of wool to use as wrist wear, can only find them in Kabbala red which isn't where we're at but I found some white wool thread that just needed to be dyed the right color. I received my Brilliant Blue almost overnight (love instant gratification) and immediately tried coloring a thread, too dark, use less powder. The next string was perfect. The powder should last forever since I only used less than a pinch. I have a violet coming this week. Makes me feel so creative!I dyed some wool yarn yellow -- I was astounded at how well the wool took up the yellow, and at how well the yellow has survived several launderings. The color was intense -- almost neon yellow, but with much more depth of color than neon. Very bright! Dyeing wool was a gamble for me (having only used fiber reactive dyes on cotton), and it surpassed my expectations. The only beef, and I suppose I really should not complain about this: I had to rinse and rinse and rinse to get the water to run clear after the wool was dyed.Like someone else posted, I bought a swimming suit online and the red color in the online picture seemed brighter than what the actual color was (more of a coral, not true red). I bought the crimson dye and not only did it color the fabric perfectly, but it also colored the plastic hardware on the suit to a wonderful crimson. I will definitely be using this dye again in the future with faux pas online orders.Color was definitely as labeled. Instructions on jar were easy to follow. Item was packed well and arrived on time. Very pleased with purchase!I used 3 pots to dye a linen duvet cover and pillowcases and they came out as new! I’m so pleased and it was relatively easy. The washing machine was going all morning but better than the olden days when we had to stir a big pot for hours. Really really pleased! Thank you!I have done a lot of dyeing fabric over the years (I'm talking a lot of years!) - this is the best dye I have used. I took my courage in my hands and dyed an off-white cashmere dressing gown and blanket that had got a bit old and icky. They now look glorious. And still as soft as they were before, which is the real revelation. I'd definitely not use any other dye after this. Thank you.Easy enough to use but rather disappointed in the colour having faithfully followed the instructions.I used this dye to colour sheep fleece for needle felting it is a Great product easy to use beautiful vibrant colour and gives great results.Works well when reading instructions properley
