TAKING CARE OF YOUR DYED ITEMS
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Using indigo dye is a meditation, an exercise in letting go of what we want and appreciating what arises.
When you submerge something new or something old, something you love, something you’d like to have a new relationship with INTO the dark dye you turn it over. It comes out different, especially in the ways you know it.
How it is now, is how it is now.
Here are some ways to take care of your “new” item in the early moments.
1. Let It Dry
Hang it up somewhere to air dry and get crispy. Setting the stuff in a sunny spot is a favorite of mine. Watch your hands after you set it to dry- you might have dye on your hands ;)
2. Rinse Carefully
Once you’ve let it dry out, you’re gonna get it wet. Rinse it outside, or in a steel sink or a bucket or something. You don’t want the excess dye staining your beautiful sink.
Now you dont need to rinse it if you dyed something thats art or gonna be on a table or something. If you’re not gonna wear it, you dont need to wash it.
3. Wash Alone, Cold With Vinegar
Rinsing it prior to washing is cool because you don’t want dye running off as you wash it getting on your washer and dryer walls.
I wash my dyed stuff for the first time by itself, in cold water with a little bit of vinegar (any kind but red wine is fine). If you don’t have vinegar its all ok.
4. Dry Alone
Dry it alone for the first time just to be safe, better yet air dry it outside in the sun again.
5. Check Your Appliance
My hope is that no excess dye leached out into your washer or dryer, but if it did- a rag with a little bit of water should wipe it right off.
6. Enjoy
What ever you got, appreciate that ya got it now. Look at it, embrace it, wear it if you can and see it for what it is. Something special.