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Raiders pants color?

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:48 pm
by mooniteman
I have a Very nice pair of Indy pants made of wool, but I need to dye them as they aint SA enough for me - anybody now a good color mixture for Indy Raiders colored pants?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:55 am
by mooniteman
nobody?

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:27 am
by indygr
Hi Mooniteman,

It's difficult in your case because the material is wool. Moreover, you have to figure out how much dye you have to add in order to reach screen accuracy. My suggestion would be a Pearl grey/Dark green or Green mix starting from white. The Green hue should be the 1/5 or 1/4 of the pants' colour. Otherwise, you could try plain RIT Taupe/Dark green. However, I am not sure about the quantity of dye used.
Keep in consideration that the colour on wool will come out lighter. However, it's really painful to remove dye and re-dye wool because it requires a special procedure.

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:41 am
by mooniteman
thanks indygr - sounds like a lot of trial and error - I miht have to give it a go though.

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:03 pm
by Red Dust
i think i might have this problem also, so i'll be interested in finding out how to do it aswell

Red Dust