You can follow the same instructions for loose straw braid or full hats but here I’m showing how to dye sewn straw braid pieces. One thing to know is not always does the thread used to sew the straw dye it stays the color it is to start with. So when ever I sew straw plait I use a long fiber cotton thread (usually waxed, the wax will come off in the dye bath). Because straw has a hard coating on the outside you need to use a hot dye, cold water dyes do not work. I usually use Rit dye liquid because it has the salt already in it. But you can also use Fiber Reactive Procion Dyes. Dharma Trading company is a good source for these dyes, follow the instructions for using them, I would opt for more dye by weight and a longer dye time than recommended for fabrics.
If using Rit dye you will want to soak your straw hat or pieces before adding it to the dye bath. I use warm water and soak it for 15 minutes but I just read some instructions in Barbars Fitch’s book “Decorative Straw Craft” and she says you can soak the straw in 50% household ammonia and 50% water. It seems like it would help the straw take up the dye, but I have not tried it yet.
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I used about 1/4 cup of the dye but I could have used 1/8 cut. I’m used to dying full hats.
Whenever you dye use tools that you do not use for anything else. And you should wear gloves. Another reason I like the liquid dye is you have to be so much more careful with the powder, it’s very fine and easily flies into the air.
You need to use a stainless steal pot or an enamel works as well as long as it’s not chipped. This one is a canning pot and is large enough for a hat or two. I added about 2-2.5″ of water to the pan. I usually preheat the water but you can start cold. Heat the water to a simmer. Then you can stir in the dye. When it is fully dissolved you can add the straw.
Straw floats so you can either stir it the entire time or you can weight down the straw pieces. You can use clean stones from the garden or clean bricks. I have sometime used an old plate that is about 1″ smaller around than the pot. Make sure you have something you can lift out when it’s however.
I use a pie plate to transfer the straw to the sink for rinsing. For this project I was going for shades of color on the pieces. In order to get that I pulled the pieces out based on time in the dye bath. The smaller ones I took out after 8 minutes on simmer, the middle ones after 8 more minutes or 16 minutes and the largest one after another 16 minutes for a total of 32 minutes. If I had pre tested I might have done 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 30 minutes.
My final results. I have shades but the middle one and the last one are fairly close. You can still see the affect of the red straw under the black and if you look close you can see the thread is still red, but you have to look close,
This is another example of a similar dying event. I not only dyed the shell decoration I dyed the shades of Wine (Rit dye) in the straw. I took sections of the hat apart and dyed the three shades of wine by leaving the straw in the dye vat 15/30/45 minutes. Then resewed the sections and added black on the edge.
For this hat I dyed the entire natural colored hat with a purple dye and then blocked and sized it with millinery gelatin.