Wet the carpet and place it outside on a plastic tarp.
How to overdye a wool rug.
The wool rug was so thick and densely woven that the dye wasn t soaking all the way through so eventually we started stomping the dye into it with our feet like we were doing grape stomping.
If your rug is a dark color and you want to overdye it with a light color like yellow or light pink you may need to consider using thiox.
You ll see the dye begin to come out of the rug and into the water.
The rug will never bleach completely but that s ok.
Instead of bleaching out my rug with thiox i decided to overdye it with a dark color to overwhelm and saturate all the light colors in my rug.
This takes time and quite a lot of dye.
Our toenails are still blue.
Spray the carpet until you have the preferred color.
We let the dye sit on the rug for an hour and then rinsed it off with the hose as well as we could.
How to overdye a rug.
Soak for another 30 minutes or longer until much of the color from the rug is gone.
Agitate thoroughly for up to 30 minutes.
Make the dye according to the bottle and pour it into spray bottles.
This takes time and quite a lot of dye.
Use a hose until the water that drains off the carpet is completely clear.
Make the dye according to the bottle and pour it into spray bottles.
Wet the carpet and place it outside on a plastic tarp.