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Help ! potentially ruined sofa

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Pluto46 · 08/02/2022 20:14

I have washed two sofa seat cushion covers in the washing machine and unfortunately bleached the colour out of them. Does anyone know of anyway to restore colour or has anyone had any success with an ivory dye

I have attached a pic of one of the unwashed covers (top of pic) against the washed cover(bottom of pic) to show what has happened.

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PostThenGhost · 08/02/2022 21:07

I can’t see any pictures but I think it’s unlikely you will be able to dye match.

I had a sofa company send me seat covers several times because I complained that the ones on my new sofa didn’t quite match the frame and none of the brand new covers they sent ever matched, even though they were dyed in the same factory!

You might be better off having the rest of the sofa cleaned with something like this (in the link below) or hire someone to come and do it and see if it looks better together, or else get the whole thing dyed.

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Pluto46 · 09/02/2022 08:30

Thank you - I'll try cleaning the rest of the sofa but think it may be a lost cause. The seat cushions were a bit stained so I had added some oxyclean as I was only doing a very short delicates cycle in the machine I suspect this was my undoing as the cushions were a nice ivory herringbone before and now they just look washed out and grey

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