Advantages
Save Time, Money, Energy, Water

• Safer : no extra chemicals--no dye auxiliaries, no salt, no soda ash, no vinegar, no Retayne
  • If you work with children, you can dye it with Kool-Aid, onion skins, beet juice, marigolds, etc.
• Faster: immersion dye in hot tap water in 10 minutes or less
• Lower cost: use less dye, omit other chemicals
• Lower energy: no heating plate, microwave, or steamer
• Use less water: rinses clear quickly
• Better for the environment: no extra chemicals in your septic system, less energy, less water
• Produced using environmentally sound process, no toxic effluent, cotton is biodegradable

In the sample below, EZ Dye cotton and white cotton were alternated in both warp and weft. The upper right corner shows the cloth undyed. The pink in the lower right is Procion fiber reactive dye and the blue in the upper left is Cushing's direct dye. The lower left is the pink overdyed with the blue.

Note that the fiber reactive dye does not tint the white cotton, but the direct blue gives it a pale shade. The overdye gives purplish in the EZ Dye cotton and the white cotton is tinted pale blue by the direct dye.

• Acid dyes, including Kool-Aid
• Fiber reactive dyes, which will not tint untreated cotton
• Direct Dyes, which will also tint untreated cotton
• Most natural dyes, some will tint untreated cotton

Spot Bronson sampler with undyed, marigold, and purple direct dye. Both natural and direct dyes tint the untreated cotton to give the light/dark contrast.

Black and EZ Dye warp stripes, untreated cotton weft. Sample dyed with Procion fuchsia , then half of it dipped in direct blue.

Set of napkins tie-dyed with Procion. Handspun EZ Dye weft on untreated white warp. Note the white warp remains undyed.

Before and after dyeing fabric with beet juice. Multi-color cotton warp and handspun EZ Dye weft . The multi-color warp remains unchanged.