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black dye on pale shirt, hope??
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asparagus1968
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I did do a service wash after dyeing some jeans black! have just washed a pale pink shirt and it now has a couple of spots of black dye on it 
anything I could try? Ican't wear it now any way, so anything is worth the risk...
anything I could try? Ican't wear it now any way, so anything is worth the risk...
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Wash it again once cleaning the machine?
I did something similar years ago, and realised that it wasn't actually dyed spots of fabric, but instead was spots of the crud you get in the machine that themselves had been dyed black, then come loose and splodged onto the shirt. In other words, it was the machine gunk on the shirt that was dyed, not the fabric itself. It washed out pretty much 100%.
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I would do as fermi suggests, then run the shirt through with some sort of cleaner like vanish or oxyclean that will often get rid of spots.
If all else fails, dye the shirt black, or do a tie-dye / batik type dying job on it.0 -
Try to keep the shirt wet if possible and get some colour run sheets. Dylon, Tesco and Dr. Beckman all make a version. Toss several in and do a wash with extra water. You might have to do it a few times with fresh sheets, but I've had fairly good success with that for similar mishaps.0
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am so impatient- I don't have any of the proper products in, so I poured a drop of neat bleach onto each dyed spot ,rubbed in, then quickly rinsed.......it worked!
Thank you all for the sensible ideas though, think I will get some stain remover stuff to have in stock.LIVE SIMPLY * GIVE MORE * EXPECT LESS * BE THANKFUL0 -
asparagus1968 wrote: »am so impatient- I don't have any of the proper products in, so I poured a drop of neat bleach onto each dyed spot ,rubbed in, then quickly rinsed.......it worked!
That is the VERY last thing I would try, as it could or would wreck many types of natural fabric and original colours.
Glad it worked though.
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100% polyester,so thought it was worth a try! wouldn't have dared with a natural fibre LIVE SIMPLY * GIVE MORE * EXPECT LESS * BE THANKFUL0
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asparagus1968 wrote: »100% polyester,so thought it was worth a try! wouldn't have dared with a natural fibre
Polyester will not and cannot be dyed, or be affected by bleach, so no wonder that worked. Would just have killed the dyed that was splodged on.
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