Dyed Gauze: using Dye-na-Flow

How to make beautiful dyed gauze using dye-na-flow. In this video I show you my technique to make colourful gauze using bandage material and dye-na-flow inks. I also show you how to make a dyed drop cloth with a mottled pattern, and some ways to use the dyed gauze in art projects.
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Time stamps:
Intro: 00.00
Materials: 00:26
Painting the gauze: 1:14
The great idea: 3:39
Painting with a drop-cloth: 4:14
Results!: 5:44
How to use it: 6:20
Sketchbook Adventures Trailer: 7:46

[@RoseWildsmith]

CORRECTION: I said in the video that dye-na-flow doesn’t need to be heat set, but in fact it does if you want it to be washable. On Jacquard’s website it says: “Dye-na-flow is permanent on any porous or semi-porous surface… it spreads on fabric until it is thoroughly absorbed and even, sinking into the fibers like a dye instead of sitting on the surface like thicker paints and inks. The colors are super vibrant & washfast and will not change the feel of the fabric.” I totally got the wrong end of the stick from this description and thought it meant heat setting is not necessary in order for it to be permanent. In fact in reading further it seems that if you’re not intending to wash it, you don’t really need to heat set it, but it DOES need to be heat set for true permanence. You can easily do this with a hot iron. Sorry for the misinformation!

[@jayblue-cy5gr]

What a gorgeous resource for artwork. Thank you, Rose!

[@sallyjoligocki5011]

Beautiful! I will try dye na flow. Thank you for sharing.

[@RoseWildsmith]

Thanks for watching! Have fun experimenting 🤓

[@KoolKookyKreatures]

Hi Rose - lovely video :). I have used Dye-na-flow on gauze before and it works really well. It does need to be heat set though - an iron would work :) x

[@RoseWildsmith]

Thanks so much for pointing that out- I don’t know where I got the idea that it doesn’t need to be heat set! 🙈 I don’t want to spread misinformation so I will post a correction comment. Thanks for letting me know so gently!! 😘

[@KoolKookyKreatures]

@@RoseWildsmith I think it’s fine not to heat set as long as it won’t be laundered or in contact with a fabric that it could transfer on to. Lovely results on the gauze x

[@janesmith8831]

Love the effect but…what’s the advantage of using those dyes rather than say diluted acrylic inks? Is it that they don’t stiffen the fabric? I’m thinking to use acrylic inks on thin plastic & then use the marks left as transfer sheets.

[@RoseWildsmith]

Acrylic inks would work too, I just happened to have these in my stash. The dye-na-flow is specifically designed for fabric and is permanent (washable) without changing the hand of the fabric. I don’t know whether acrylic ink would be permanent without heat setting, and could make the fabric stiffer as you say. If you’re using it in artwork the difference probably isn’t too much, but if you wanted to use it in textile work and for it to be washable you might prefer the dye-na-flow.

[@janesmith8831]

@@RoseWildsmith tx for the response…yes I was looking to use if flat tx,