Sofa Fabric Problem!

Padstow

Hope someone can help with this.

I gave my daughter two eight foot sofas, They are vintage DFS and were as perfect as the day I bought them.
They have fitted, but removable covers for washing, and are white, as in wool white, not a bright cotton white.
DD rang me for washing temp as a seat cushion had Lily pollen on it. They had been washed numerous times, especially after parties, to remove red wine etc and always came up as new.
She, thinking the pollen may not wash out, added glo-white. Now of course she has one vivid white seat cushion.

The answer as I'm sure you are thinking, is to wash all the other covers in the same way, resulting in sixteen feet of brilliant white. She doesn't want that, and I agree.

We need to tone down the brightness. I say "we" as I've not seen it yet.
I've looked on the dylon site, thinking there would be a "cream", where a little could be added as a tint to tone it down, but they're all colours. http://www.dylon.co.uk/colours.html I can't see anything that's creamish.

Any ideas anyone?

FairyPrincessk

Perhaps a very very weak tea dye?

Seakay

I'd wash it again with ordainary detergent to see if the glo white comes out as I undersand that it is a type of optical brightener rather than bleach

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cutestkids

Whatever you do to one part you should really do to all as the colour difference will always be there so you should really wash the rest of the fabric in the same way then choose a colour to dye it all so that you are starting with the same base tone otherwise there will always be a difference in shades no matter what colour tyou choose to use as your end colour.

Even with whites there is a difference, we found this out when we painted a large room using an off white which was mixed in store from colour charts and ran out of paint, the last tin was mixed from a different base white and the difference was very obvious.

I would glo white the rest of the fabric leaving the original one out of the wash and then pick a new colour to dye it making sure that each package of dye had the same code and batch number.