Name: Anna
Message: I'm hoping to dye some white "washed rayon/cotton satin" dresses a sage color, and am wondering what the best way of doing this would be? Do you have any advice? Thanks so much for your help!

Rayon and cotton are both best dyed with a cool water fiber reactive dye such as Procion MX. This is easily obtained by mail-order; see my listing of different companies that mail-order dye.

If you want a single solid color, and if the dresses are machine washable, the easiest method is washing machine dyeing. For a good recipe, see the instructions at , or Pro Chemical & Dye, or Dharma Trading Company.

You can mix a sage color by mixing brown MX-GRN ('rust orange' or 'burnt orange' - see my Procion MX pure colors chart) with blue MX-G ('cerulean blue' - not turquoise MX-G). However, as a beginner, you may prefer to buy a premixed color, such as ProChemical & Dye's 'PRO MX Forest Green 7195'.

For more interesting mottled effects, look into low water immersion dyeing, instead of washing machine dyeing. It's even easier than the washing machine dyeing method.