Advice on dyeing cotton/polyester fabric please.......

[BettySpaghetti]

Unfortunately Dylon's website seems to be out of action otherwise I'd look there.

I want to dye some 50% cotton 50% polyester fabric but not sure if the dye would take?

Fabric (curtains for underneath a cabin bed) is currently fuchsia pink with silver embroidered stars on and I'm hoping to get it dark blue or black . I realise the stars will remain silver.

Would it work or is likely to only go a purple colour because of the % of polyester?

TIA

dylon makes a dye for some synthetics.

i think in your case it's likely to go purple.

you could try a dye remover first and see how that works.

ooh, I've never used a dye remover will look out for that, thanks expat.

is the website back up?

they make a dye remover, which i've had some success with, BUT i was only ever dyeing stuff that was far lighter and more neutral than fuschia pink.

Right, Dylon website is back!

They do a Pre-Dye to take the colour out but its not suitable for polyester/cotton mixes

More bad news -the machine dye says poly/cotton mixes will not dye as deeply and colour mixing rules will apply so fuchia fabric + navy dye = purple.

damn!

yeah, it's a lot harder with synthetics.

This is probably the most stupid question ever, but what would happen if they were dyed again once they were purple? Would that then work?