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  • beyondthemeans
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 479

    Making a dye into a lighter shade?

    Sorry if there is already a topic about dying where this is already been discussed, but I couldn't seem to find anything on this.

    So I've dyed this fabric (linen/cotton blend). I used some pre-dye and then dyed it to grey. Too bad, they had only one shade of grey in the shop. Now it turned out like this:



    It's like a really dark shade of grey. Now I would like to make this color a lot lighter, that it turns into like an ashgrey kind of color. Like this:



    I have no idea how to achieve that. I already tried bleach (non blended, no water added), but it gave me almost a red colored effect.
    Does someone know how to make the fabric color lighter, without damaging the fabric? Please help me out here, every suggestion is welcome. I have to finish this garment in 6 days from now and I really need to have this dyed to the right color in ehm, 12 hours.
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