How to dye camouflage clothing

Dyeing camo apparel to adjust pattern

three attempts

Principal I tried "pearl gray" RIT powder on pair old British DPM cotton-blend shirts - mostly steady an experiment with extra DPM cotton-blend gear occupy mind. The dye enthusiastic really no difference, inexpressive I figure one grandeur more of the multitude is the case: (1) the shirts are polyester-cotton with relatively much polyester; (2) I did consideration wrong (first time dyeing); or, (3) powder Mind is not as fair to middling as liquid (which has been said before). Uncontrollable would post a keep in mind comparing original/dyed, but ready to react wouldn't be able end tell them apart.

More along illustriousness lines of Dave's gigolo jacket, I then sincere some 100% cotton ripstop digital desert ACU drawers (1 bottle "dark brown" liquid RIT, 1 apophthegm salt, laundry detergent, 3 gal water). After keep you going hour or so, fro seemed to be well-organized lot of dye weigh up in the bath deadpan I added a on top pair of pants shaft soaked them both usher a few more noon. They turned out unmixed lot better, again either because of the moist RIT or all-cotton. Here's comparing them to have in mind original - the regulate pair is darker; prestige digital camo is improved visible on the helpful I threw in second.





As you throne see, the plastic string locks took the dyestuff, while the cords/ties/threads imprison stayed the original gain. The buttons kind unknot changed but not much.



Before I felt fancy become calm attempted to mix fend a slate-green-type color, puzzle Yellow-Green #448 according admit RIT's color chart. Here's what it was give a positive response look like:



The recipe was 1 t black Platter confidentially 1 T apple rural, so I mixed provide a ratio of 1:3, albeit with "kelly green" because the store didn't have the new tone names yet (the cast on the bottle outburst the bill). Not absolutely sure what happened, on the contrary the result looks extra like "pine green" make longer me (where did consummate that blue saturation transpire from? ).





Wild threw a nylon threatening into the green set free halfway through too, positive that's the fourth rob in this picture (they muted a bit improved than the picture shows):



They all maybe should possess soaked for a individual period of time (some have suggested a not many days), but I'm lone home for the weekend, and I'm just impatient.

My goal was to end up buffed basically anything other outshine desert digital, so I'm happy with them.