Dubbing #2 - Dying Rabbit Fur with Jacquard Acid Dye
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The 2nd edition in my Dubbing Series shows you how to use top quality Jacquard Acid Dye to create a solid, long lasting, professional quality dyed color on rabbit fur. These dyes are inexpensive to purchase, easy to use, and will give you a whole new range of colors to work with, whether fly tying, felting, or other natural fiber crafts. Follow my tips for great looking, vibrant color, that will not come off on your hands. See below for suitable products and dyes!
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LOL I did enjoy your video on how to cut rabbit strips very much and I am now watching your Dying Rabbit Fur Thanks again
Thanks I'll try it
wow this video is really complet but i was wondering if you dye a bunny fur hide without shaving it off like in the first video will it work or will it fell apart ?
I'm here 4 years later asking the same thing. Did you ever find out?
Hey! I applied fur to my boots, I’m scared to remove it, since it was very risky to sew it on. Is there a way I can dye the fur white keeping it on the boots? Would hair dye work?
How you get the dye off your hands?🤦♀️🤔
Would this dye work on syntetic materials like EP and stuff like that? I was messing around earlier and got leather dye to stick to it using the same method, bur want to try different colors.
This video is a great inspiration. I’ve been dying up a storm. One thing I have not solved yet is dying whole rabbit skins for zonker strips. After the dyed hide dries, the skin/backing gets super hard. Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong. It is the way the hides were tanned. In the US chrome tanning is not legal, and the domestic hides are chemically tanned and do not hold up well when heated and dyed. Chrome tanning still takes place in countries where lax environmental regs are in place, and the hides that have a good dye job, and are soft, are done with the chrome tanning process. Sad, but the way it is.
Thanks. I figured it was something like that
How do I use such Acid Dyes if I am to do screen printing ? I am aware that I can use a thickener and add the Dye but my primary concern is how do I fix the dye permanently on the fabric if the fabric is silk as silk is very sensitive to heat ( ie hot water) ?
My experience with screen printing is with inks. I do not know how you would fix the dye on silk even if it was thickened enough to use on a screen. Jacquard makes a a special dye for silk. I would refer you to their website at www.jacquardproducts.com.
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Hi Chris, I have checked Jacquered website and they recommend Acid Dyes or Fibre reactive dyes but Acid dyes are the best for painting on Silk fabrics. Do you think a simple iron on the fabric should make the dye adhere or even steaming ?
Anyway thanks for your comment.
@@vinr1187 The way I read the products page says their special silk dyes can be used for printing and are set with steam, so I am referring you to that page. You are beyond my area of expertise. www.jacquardproducts.com/silk-colors.html
Well prepared tutorial. Your method makes sense to me in that it allows the dye to soak into the material prior to adding vinegar to the solution to "set the dye" to the material. In the many tutorials I've seen on this subject, water is boiled, dye is added, vinegar is added and then brought to a simmer prior to the material (feathers, fur, etc.) being added. What is the purpose of adding dye prior to boiling and simmering? Is the salt to prevent the water from, as they say, "boiling dry" or is there some other underlying purpose? Can I use curing salt? Thank you. Great tip!
The dye is added to the small amount of water and boiled to make sure all of the different pigments in a color are dissolved. Olive and black are the most problematic of the main colors. If you dye something in black that has not been dissolved completely, you can end up with materials that are dark blue, with the reds left in the dye water. Olive dyes can give yellow shifted colors if not dissolved well. The salt helps etch the surface of the materials so the dye can penetrate. Curing salt is fairly pure and should work well. The plainer the salt the better.
Thank you for your quick reply. I used your method on some grizzly hackle this afternoon in Jacquard Acid Dyes 602 Bright Yellow and 619 Crimson with fantastic results! Evidently the curing salt does work well; and, because I cure my own bucktails for tying big predator flies, it is so good to know it has duplicity of use in dying as well. Thank you very much. I subscribed and rung the bell so looking forward to whatever you share.@@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852
If you dye bucktails, you need to keep the temperature lower and simmer longer or they will come apart. When they dry, the hide will curl if dried too quickly, so keep them sandwiched in paper towels until almost dry, but remove before the paper towel sticks. Thanks for subscribing!
I accidently ordered the procion dye and not the acid dye in olive :( Do you think it could still work?
Procion will work on fibers like cotton (Tie Dying) will will not grab protein based materials like hair.
I'm interested in dying rabbit in the subtractive primary colors (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow) to teach workshops in color and fish vision in fly design. Can you suggest the three dyes you'd used to obtain these three colors when using white rabbit fur? I'd much appreciate any advice you can provide. Caucci & Nastasi put out a product years ago to go along with their book but it's difficult and unnecessarily expensive to use in free workshops. Thank you for a great series of videos!
As a retired commercial photographer and color printer, I can recommend some that will get you close, but not perfect. #601 Sun Yellow, #620 Hot Fuchsia, and #624 Turquoise. You can see them at this link: www.jacquardproducts.com/acid-dye
@@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852 Thank you, Chris. I suspected I wouldn't find process colors but wanted your take on the closest matches before I made my choices. I'm a retired vision scientist so I know choices from an artist's palette are often going to be only close, at best. Thanks again!
Great video will the same process work on buck tail.
It will but takes a bit longer. Degrease the bucktail in a strong bath of Dawn detergent overnight because most bucktails are just dried and not tanned, so there is a lot of oil in them. When simmering in the dye bath, go low & slow. Since the hide holding the hair together is basically raw, keep the heat low so you don't cook it. Then simmer it longer to get the dye to penetrate the hair. Bucktail is notoriously difficult to dye, and the normal things that spoil it are oils in the hair, and trying to go too fast. If you get the heat too high, the hide will come apart in chunks, but the hair on them is still usable. Lay them out on old towels and put another on top to dry. It takes days. If they dry too fast they will be curled, but perfectly usable.
Hello there this is a good video. What if you want to dye other hides but the hair is on? Like I have a Spring Buck.. I want to dye can I use the same method?
Here 3 years later researching the same thing, did you ever find out?
@@CraftsandCasts nope never got an answer. Let me know if you do.
Wow THANKS for this video! I hunt squirrel and tie flies and need more colors of their fur and was considering dying my own. Would this method work as well with the squirrel fur too? Any reason to not dye with the fur on the pelt or would that be "OK"? Have you ever tried dying a full pelt?
The hides have to be chrome tanned to be dyed, or they will cook in the dye and fall apart. Watch my basic dubbing #1 video about shearing the fur, then squirrel should take the dye nicely. Thanks for watching!
Chris Mihulka - NW Fishing Stuff Thanks again Chris. I’ll go with the shaved fur... Now to get some dye!!
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