Message: Hi Paula, not sure if you have ever heard of Susan Rex. She has published two books on dying. First one was "Dyeing Wool And Other Protein Fibers: an Introduction to Acid Dyes" and the second is "Complex Color, Color Mixing For Washfast Acid Dye" I am going to be purchasing them soon, but in the meantime, I was wondering if you may know what the 8 Jacquard dyes are that Susan uses in her second book "Complex Color" as I would like to be able to purchase the dyes so that I have them when my books arrive. (Can you tell I'm not a very patient person, lol) Thanks, Barb 

Hi Barb,

I don't know which specific dyes Susan Rex uses in her book Complex Color: Color Mixing For Washfast Acid Dye, but I can tell you that they are not Jacquard dyes. There are only a few dyes that are found in both the WashFast Acid dyes and the Jacquard dyes. There is not a lot of overlap. The dyes are similar but not quite the same.

If you want to buy dyes to go with Susan Rex's book, Complex Color: Color Mixing For Washfast Acid Dye, I strongly recommend that you buy WashFast Acid Dyes, since that's what she specifically wrote the book about. It will be easier to apply what you see in the book. She has mentioned elsewhere, online, using Jacquard dyes, and she describes them in Dyeing Wool And Other Protein Fibers: an Introduction to Acid Dyes, but they are not what Complex Color is about, judging from the title. You can buy WashFast Acid Dyes from Maiwa Handprints in Vancouver, PRO Chemical & Dye in Massachusetts, and from Paradise Fibers in Washington. All of these suppliers sell by mail-order, as well.

Look at my page, "Which Washfast Acid colors are pure, and not mixtures?". The only Jacquard Acid Dyes that are also found among the WashFast Acid dyes are as follows:

WashFast Acid Dyes that you *CANNOT* buy from Jacquard are as follows:

In addition, you cannot buy any of the WashFast Acid Dye premixed colors from Jacquard. Premixed colors will be different when mixed by one company instead of another. PRO Chemical & Dye sells a great many premixed colors of WashFast Acid dyes, in addition to the pure unmixed single-hue dye colors. (The premixed dyes sold by Paradise fibers are the same as the dyes of the same name from ProChem.)

If you call or email ProChem, I'll bet they can tell you which colors they sell that are in the book. For that matter, you could email Susan Rex herself and see if she'll tell you. Her email addresses are on her page about the book.

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