All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

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All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

Post by Nuclear Doll » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:43 pm

These were colored by steeping in hot coffee for 2 hours, they came out a dark blonde-ish hue.
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Anyone else have any "natural dyes" they've tried with wool? ^_^

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Re: All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

Post by Ice_Pick_Abortions » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:45 pm

A couple of people have used tea and posted pics before, can't recall who though
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Re: All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

Post by Nuclear Doll » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:47 pm

Ice_Pick_Abortions wrote:A couple of people have used tea and posted pics before, can't recall who though
Ooooh, I bet a raspberry tea would look awesome! Thanks for the idea! ^_^

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Re: All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

Post by MrsEss » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:47 pm

I know a lot of people have used Kool Aid to dye roving, VSB made a very extensive tute

It's on the tutorials section:
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Re: All natural! Coffee Dyed Roving Dreads!

Post by toxic trish » Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:02 pm

defonatly going to look at this tutorial and wow the coffe gives an amazing affect on the dreads especialy with the contrast from blonde/brown to white :) nice job :i2:
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