JacquardBlue Indigo Dye - 8 Oz Create Your Own Shibori Bag, Macrame, Pillow

This is the real deal. It is a bit more involved than just stirring some dye into water and soaking the fabric, however it’s Not hard to do, just make sure you follow whatever “ recipe” you are using and have all the supplies on hand. The resulting color is beautiful! I washed my items in the washing machine and they faded somewhat but that could easily be due to mistakes on my part. Time will tell, I plan on doing many more projects.

This old world concept Indigo dying intrigued me and this was a great product to use to see how my tying and wrapping and shibori sewing would turn out. It is super easy to use.Quick shipping too

This product was really good and I have been enjoying using it. Good quality.

A okay, still need to try to dye my shirt though

I wish I had understood that this dye was synthetic rather than from a plant when I bought but I am still very happy with the dye itself. Directions from jacquard website are good enough to get going but I could wish for better information. Try not to get the "flower" on whatever you're dyeing.It makes that part look much more gray-ish. Since I dyed both flour sack towels and some yardage for quilting, I found the gray effect to be interesting, even if it wasn't what I wanted and now I know better. I only needed one minute submerged to get a great color. The first 2 photos are of fat quarters starting with white fabric. The next was a shirt that was "oatmeal" colored, sort of beige. I really like how it turned out. Last is of the flour sack towels. Indigo is supposed to have antibacterial properties and be somewhat bug repellent. I can tell you the mosquitoes didn't notice any repelling properties and happily dive bombed me as I was working on dyeing the fast quarters.I plan to use this as a chemistry lab for my 8th grade students to dye flour sack towels. Then we will use the towels in the classroom for the rest of the year to save on paper towels. The indigo vat has to be reduced solution to dye the fabric (I used fructose and it worked fine) and then the fabric oxidizes in atmosphere when removed from the vat and turns from green to blue as you watch. Students will be able to see the chemical reactions.Teachers: if this is your first time playing with indigo then I recommend their kit, rather than this bag otherwise you are having to chase around and find ingredients.

Color was beautiful! Research how to do this if you have never done this before! All ingredients are needed for the correct outcome. I had to order my ingredient twice because I didn't know I needed other items to go with this. There are no directions on the package of dye itself.

If you follow the directions this is a neat experience. Lived up to my expectations. I found that 3 dips for 5 minutes each gave great color.

Combined this with fructose and pickling lime to make my vat. Did shiburi with my kids and they did great.