I received my Magnoli v2 satchel a week ago, and while the construction and details are spot on, like some others I felt the color was too on the brown/tan side of olive. Though I didn't find it terribly offensive, I decided to give it a dye bath. So a couple of washings and a dip in Kelly Green Ritt dye later, here's the result:
Meant to snap a before shot, but I forgot to in my excitement. But there's plenty of pics over here Anyway, I like the color much better now, and the repeated washings have already started to fade the color along the edges.
outstanding job!!!
It just about makes me wish I had kept mine.
I wonder if there would be anything to keep the dye off of the lanyard loop and strap loops?
Wax maybe?
Ron
hi WeeMadHamish,
I was wondering about the same thing as Nobody above too. Did you use dark green or kelly green? I use dark green for mine, and it turn out really really dark. But doesn't kelly green look more like grass green? your MkVII looks like olive drab green though. it is awesome!! let us know the ratio or the color you use. thanks
I used a full packet of the powdered dye with just a dash of detergent and ran it through a full wash cycle. The nice thing about the RITT dye is that it really only tints the fabric and you need a lot of it to get really bold color, so the original olive-tan color of the canvas isn't wiped out. I used Kelly Green which with the gold undertones yeilded a nice olive green. I got the Dark Green as well, but I took a gamble on the Kelly first and it paid off.
As noted, the webbing and lanyard loop did get dyed a darker green color, but I'm not terribly put off by it.
Pitfall: Well, after three consecutive washings, there's no sign of any stitch wear. It's definitely solidly-made! There was some minor (original) dye release along some of the folds and wrinkles, but that only adds to the weathering in my opinion. I let it air dry to keep it nice and wrinkled.
Following in Ham's footsteps, I dyed my Magnoli satchel yesterday. Finding Rit dye here in Hamilton seems to be an issue, so I used Dylon Cold Dye instead (Leaf Green).
The result (please forgive the moiré patterns affecting the middle two photos):
Also looks like it was more forgiving to the webbing than the RITT dye (which turned my strap webbing dark green.)
