How To Dye An Area Rug With Rit Dye

I thought about it and i ve dyed curtains bedspreads napkins quilts a wall hanging clothes and wood.

How to dye an area rug with rit dye.

I love the rug but it is the wrong shade of blue for my furniture. Spray dye on carpet until you have the desired color. Wearing rubber gloves pour of well shaken rit dyemore into of boiling water. Dying a rug would be great if you need to get a little extra life out of one you already have.

These products are easy enough to get hold of in stores. I mixed 8 boxes of teal rit dye with hot water in a plastic laundry hamper and then melissa and i proceeded to pour the dye over the rug with watering cans. Take the rug out when it has reached the desired color. I m so glad i did it.

To set the dye use a hot steam iron. The only items i had to buy for this diy project were the rit dye and the scotchgard. I had a packet of rit dye that i bought years ago but never used in a blue jean color but added another packet to make the color deeper. For extremely small areas you can use a cotton swab to apply the dye.

Dip a small corner of a piece of clean cloth into the hot dye gently squeezing out the excess. Then i sprayed the dye all over the rug until the color was fairly even. Everything else i already had at home and i would imagine that most other people do too. A rug was the only other thing i had wanted to try.

This takes time and quite a lot of dye. When more dye is needed mix a new solution using the same dye to water ratio. I took the rug outside laid it on an old shower curtain dissolved the dye and put it into an empty windex container. The rugs i read about were small so people were able to soak them in tubs of dye.

Rub the area where you wish to apply the dye. Wearing rubber gloves mix 1 2 cup of rit all purpose liquid dye with 2 cups of very hot almost boiling water. Lower it carefully into the water while wearing rubber gloves to protect your hands. I don t want to paint it and loose the pattern.

Is it possible to dye it. Then i sprayed the dye all over the rug until the color was fairly even. My rug was way too big for any of that so i laid the rug on a large tarp in my back yard. I just purchased an indoor outdoor 8 x 10 rug for my gazebo.

As you can see the furniture is more of a blue grey while the rug is kind of a blue green. I took the rug outside laid it on an old shower curtain dissolved the dye and put it into an empty windex container.