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Acid dye colour mixing chart. Dyes > Acid Dye
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Junior Member 6 posts Frogzone Junior Member 6 posts
Frogzone
I noticed that there is a colour mixing chart fo the procion MX dyes...  but I can’t see one for the acid dyes...  is there one?
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
I am working on one now.  The best primaries are Sun yellow, Turquoise and Hot Fuchsia.  Hot Fuchsia is not as lightfast as our other colors because it is fluorescent, so especially for oranges and scarlets Cherry red is acceptable as a primary.  For really vibrant violets, hot fuchsia is the best choice.  
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Nathalie0226 Junior Member 3 posts
Nathalie0226
Hello,
Any idea when that will be? 
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
I'm sorry, I deleted this post because I shared that before it was finished.  Taking it down was the right thing to do.  If you would like the recipes I shared here, just private message me.  I will be posting it back once it is done, because it is worth talking about.  
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Saharr Junior Member 6 posts
Saharr
Could I kindly request a chart please?

Jacquardmod  Jacquardmod wrote:
I'm sorry, I deleted this post because I shared that before it was finished.  Taking it down was the right thing to do.  If you would like the recipes I shared here, just private message me.  I will be posting it back once it is done, because it is worth talking about.  
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Jontif Junior Member 6 posts
Jontif
Saharr wrote:
Could I kindly request a chart please?




ive private messages too as I’m desperate to find colour mixing recipes abs charts. But haven’t hear anything but maybe it’s because I can’t find my messages inbox 
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
We are done with this now, and I am reposting it.  Note that you can replace hot fuchsia with Cherry red or fire red, but Hot fuchsia is the best magenta as it makes both great reds and great violets, where those other 2 are already more orange so violets don't looks as good.  Thank you for being patient and waiting.  We have a color wheel for both Acid and Procion dyes and they appear on the webpage for those dyes under our products tab.  
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
Oh also that Coral color should be done at 1/4 strength as Coral is a pastel color
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Jontif Junior Member 6 posts
Jontif
This is great. Thanks so much for that. One colour I’m also trying to make is a pale sage green or an olive green /rather than brown. And a pale icy blue /sky blue. And an antique rose. Any ideas for these ?
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
For a sage green, you want to use a Kelly green, which is way too bright and have a 10:1 ratio with either fire red or cherry red.  You want just a small amount of red.  Probably use about half the amount you usually would maybe less for a lighter color. 

You'd want a similar thing for olive using the same colors, but add more red.  You want an even deeper yellowy green.  That means more like 5:1 Kelly Green to red.  The more red you add, the duller and deeper the color will get.  
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Jontif Junior Member 6 posts
Jontif
That’s so useful thanks. Can I ask the same advice for an antique rose colour ? 
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detobias detobias Senior Member 185 posts
detobias detobias
Any chance for similar chart for idye poly which has such limited colors? Thanks! Dianne
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
detobias  detobias wrote:
Any chance for similar chart for idye poly which has such limited colors? Thanks! Dianne


Yes I would like to do this.  I have been using pink as my mixing red and that seems to work better for mixing violets.   
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Jacquardmod Jacquardmod Administrator 2,608 posts
Jacquardmod Jacquardmod
Jontif wrote:
That’s so useful thanks. Can I ask the same advice for an antique rose colour ? 


Sure sorry for missing that originally.  

I would start with the dusty magenta color up there with some tweaks.  What you are looking at for antique rose is a red biased light brown essentially.  The dusty magenta is too strong, too much dye in 2 teaspoons per lb, you need more like a half a teaspoon of dye per lb, so about 1/4 the strength.  You also need more yellow and blue than in the dusty magenta, but I believe in the same ratio.  So it will be a duller and lighter dusty magenta.  Duller meaning we would knock down the magenta a bit more.  

I would recommend

9 parts Hot fuchsia
1 part turquoise
3 parts sun yellow

That should get you pretty close.    
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detobias detobias Senior Member 185 posts
detobias detobias
Sorry don’t understand completely. Interestingly I find idye poly pink slow to show up I dye bath just as turquoise does. Different from other colors I find pink too bubble gum pink. I like a 2:1 pink:red for a nice pink!
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