Name: Monika
Message: I am interested in dying a 100% crepe dress. It is black with large white flowers in the fabric. I want to dye it black so that the flowers are black on black and much more subtle. Can I do it myself? Does crepe hold color? Any help would be appriciated.
I could send it to someone to do if you have any recommendarions.

I'm very sorry, but I simply cannot comment on how to dye a garment whose fiber content is unknown.

Crepe is a weave, not a fiber. It can be woven from many different fibers, including wool, silk, and polyester. The dyes and techniques used to dye wool or silk are completely different from those used to dye polyester, and the methods used for silk are often quite different from those used for wool.

The only hope for even thinking about this, since you indicated that the label of your dress offers no help, would be to determine the fiber content by the burn test. See the Sew News Library or Fabrics.net for more information about how to use this test to identify a fiber.


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