Mixing colors for dying fabric?
I'm a student in art school taking color theory and am beginning my final project. For the project I am creating a series of mini-stuffed animals that will be in the colors of the color wheel. I need to learn to dye fabric and have found some fairly simply tutorials online (boil water, add dye, add to cold water, soak the fabric, rinse in cool water) but my question is when I mix for my tertiary colors, such as red-orange, do I just mix together a little red with orange dye or is there something more complex that I need to do? I guess I could ask the same for my secondary colors, like green, could I mix the dyes for that or would I be better off just buying green dye? I just don't the technical aspect to color dye and would really like to get the dying process done as quickly as possible because sewing these things will take me forever!
Thanks!
Yes, you really just mix dyes like you mix paints...
the base colors in Procion MX dyes, for instance, are yellow, PR1, cyan, PR25, and fuchsia, PR13: http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/3796-AA.shtml?lnav=dyes.html
If you can get hold of a copy of "Color by Accident", it's got a nice section on mixing dyes, particularly Procion.
Does this project have to be with dyes? If not, you can probably shorten the process considerably by using thin-bodied fabric paints like Dynaflow:
http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1605-AA.shtml?lnav=paints.html or Jacquard ABI: http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/4483727-AA.shtml?lnav=paints.html
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