Name:____________________________

Fading in sunlight

  1. Use the template to cut a strip from both a naturally dyed and a synthetically dyed piece of fabric.

  2. Stick your piece of unfaded fabric in the correct spaces on your record sheet.

  3. Pin the rest of each square sample to a piece of paper:

  4. Stick the paper in a sunny window. Make sure your samples face out of the window.

  5. Use the template to cut a strip from both samples every 2-3 days and stick these to the record sheet.

How useful was the test?

 

 

Write about what your results tell you:

 

 

 


Which dyes would you recommend and for which fabric types?