Tips needed for dyeing a dress

[Melly]

Hi there, am hoping to glean some useful tips. I have a dress that I'm thinking of dyeing a different colour and wondered if anyone could give me some advice please?
The dress is currently silver grey, so reasonably light, it is long, very plain design and the material is a sort of crushed velvet (sounds a bit naff but it's actually quite nice!). It is unlined. I would like to dye it either emerald green (or as near to emerald green as I can get) or a yellowy gold colour.
Anyone got any thoughts, would those colours work, or should I not bother. The dress wasn't really too expensive so I am prepared to take a chance that it might go a bit wrong! Suppose I could always dye it black if the colour didn't turn out very good.
Thanks for any advice.

The only dyes I have used are Dylon clothes dyes. They're really recommended for natural fibres, like cotton. I can't imagine it would dye very well if it's a velvet-type material. If you want to give it a bash anyway I would try the cold water dyes as they are supposed to dye a greater range of fabrics. I think even black might look patchy on velvet, though, because of the pile in the fabric.

I'm not sure if its the same type of material but I succesfully dyed some cotton velvet curtains using a Dylon machine dye. Despite the fact they were huge and each curtain filled the drum of the machine the dye was very even.

thanks for those replies. Have bought some green dye this afternoon, its the Dylon machine dye, so think I might give it a go.

Let us know how it turns out Melly