Name: Jules
Message: Hello,
I recently bought an A-line skirt off eBay and I wanted to die it from Electric Blue to Black,or platinum, or silver, or Red. The material is 100% polyester according to the tag. can you reccomend a color that would die best. I am hoping that either black, silver, or platinum will be a good color. Thanks a lot.
-Jules

I'm sorry, but immersion dyeing polyester is NOT a suitable project for a dye beginner like yourself. You would have to buy a large, expensive cooking pot to be used only for this purpose, because the dye is not safe to use in the same cooking pots you use for food. In addition, the procedure requires that you boil the garment for an hour with a toxic carrier chemical. The skirt is unlikely to survive this much heat for this much time.

See "Dyeing Polyester with Disperse Dyes", at <http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dispersedye.shtml>.

If your skirt were made of an easily dyeable material such as 100% cotton or 100% silk, you could dye electric blue to make black, but never to make silver or red. Dye is transparent, so the existing color cannot be covered up, only added onto.