METHOD FOR DYEING COROZO-TAGUA BUTTONS

1° Impregnate

-Before dyeing the Tagua- buttons, they must be impregnated with water very well.
-It is possible to proceed in two ways:
either keeping in warm water for 2-3 hours, or keeping them at 80° C. all night long.
-The impregnation with the water produces a clear increase in the diameter and in the thickness of the buttons.

2° Whitening

  In order to obtain the whitest buttons you must follow these instruction:

a) melt 20gr CORODECO into water and then boil it;
b) plunge the buttons for 15-20 minutes;
c) decrease temperature at 60° and add 0,5% of BLANK CRZ AND maintain;
     temperature constantly for 20’-30’;
d) rinse in running water.

3° Bleaching

a) To bleaching the dyed buttons you must:
b) melt 20gr of CORODECO into water and boil it;
c) plunge the button for 15-20 minute;
d) rinse in running water.

                            PREPARATION OF THE DYEING BATH

-Melt 4-8g. of dyestuff pro-litter of water. If possible, in demineralised water.
-Increase the temperature of water bath end plunge the basked with the buttons at 90-95°C. (206-208 F).
-If the dye-machine isn’t any automatic motion you’ll have to move it manually.
-A bath of 10 litres come dye 5000 small-medium buttons or 1000 big buttons.
-The dyeing-time is about 15-30 minutes.
-When you reach the desired strength of colour, you have to rinse in flowing water very well.
-Transfers the buttons in a new bath contain 50g pro-litter of fixative COROFIX at 30-40° C. (86-104° F) for 5 minutes.
-Rinse the buttons and dry.

If you don’t obtain satisfactory result, after this explanation, send us a detailed plan or your way of dyeing.