Hi All

I have dyed some feathers using Rit and following the general consensus from all of the feather dying threads I have found here.

Colour is spot on but I am concerned that the feathers are in a twist as you can see from the pic.

I didn't boil the solution, is this normal and will steaming return them to shape????

Good grief, looks like vanilla sticks. Hope you can save them. Bue--.    :eek:    :eek:

You can try steaming but that doesn't look promising. Sorry.

Pm sent. Call now if you can.

Holy Moly I've never seen feathers do that.

Sorry, but I couldn't keep from laughing.

From the looks of the towel under them, you tried to squeeze them dry?  If so, that is a big no no.

Good eye Charlie!

I won't go into how I know about that  

They should steam back to normal or almost normal.

I've dyed alot of feathers and NEVER have had this happen .  Dry them flat and see what happens, I bet they will be fine.  When I dye feathers I lay them in a 9 by 12 pan/tupperware flat , then lay them out on a "gutter guard" (from lowes) so the air can get to both sides.  

I'd say they're dead buddy.

...I'm sorry

Try the dye from 3 Rivers ( I believe that is where I got it).  Comes in a small packet - add 1 gallon of water and bring to a rolling boil and add feathers for 1 minute only.  Remove and let dry.  Allow liquid to cool and pour into a 1 gallon glass jug.  Reheat and reuse as needed.

Try the dye from 3 Rivers ( I believe that is where I got it).  Comes in a small packet - add 1 gallon of water and bring to a rolling boil and add feathers for 1 minute only.  Remove and let dry.  Allow liquid to cool and pour into a 1 gallon glass jug.  Reheat and reuse as needed.

Thanks for all the responses.

here is take two. fingers crossed

Lookin' pretty good!!!

erm well, those last batch were pretty stuffed!

However I received some great help from Magnus and I ended up getting the colour I wanted. It is darker blue than appears on the pic but matches the Aussie flag blue I wanted.

It has been an expensive and frustrating learning curve but I feel pretty confident that I will be able to dye feathers first go from now on.



Thanks again Magnus,

Cheers

Jase

That is a pretty blue,glad you got it figured out.

Yeah, Magnus is like that.        

Good post, I was gonna do the same thing this weekend.
Thanks for sharing