Dyeing with expired printer ink: silk thermal shirt

[butterflydreaming]

Here are some photos of the silk thermal that I tie dyed with expired ink. The ink is used for printer cartridge refilling, and after x years it is no longer suitable. The silk thermal is from Dharma Trading Co. I used two black formulations and the same method as dyeing with food color, more or less. The shirt: Detail: Same shirt, photo taken at night (higher contrast):

Comments

[the_sybil]

oh my, that's cool.

[leatherdykeuk]

wow. I love that.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

I like it. I was at Value Village today and noticed they had a large number of white linen blouses. I love linen but most of the white were too thin for me to enjoy. I started wondering if I could dye them.

[ivy]

Neat! I had a shirt that looked similar for a while, but I don't know how the dyeing process was done.