What pot should I use to make dye?

Are you using commercial dyes, or are you trying to make natural dyes? Natural dyes like beet juice work just fine in cooking pans.

Some dyes, such as the fiber reactive dyes like my favorite Procion MX, can be dyed in cool water, just in a plastic bucket or dishpan or even a ziplock bag. When you use a concentrated dye solution with no real room to slosh the fabric around so it dyes evenly, you get all sorts of interesting color variation patterns in your dyeing; this is called low water immersion dyeing, and the book that I started with was this one: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Accident-Low-Water-Imm... Wound up dyeing quarter yards of fabric in my husband's discarded plastic fast food drink cups, and got some really interesting and beautiful results. But most of the synthetic dyes do need to be in plastic, glass or ceramic for dyeing -- a metal pot will "sadden" (grey) the colors.

Here are some more samples of low water immersion dyeing : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5veovr3_Zw and more information on dyeing and dyes from my favorite dye supplier: http://www.dharmatrading.com/topnav/techniques/ http://www.dharmatrading.com/topnav/dyes/

I don't like grocery store dyes like Rit and Tintex -- the colors tend to be muddy and the whole process is a whole lot more messy and the process more difficult than low water immersion dyeing with something like Procion MX.

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