Is there any way I can “dye” plastic?
Okay, so I am doing a crafts project and I want to turn these clear plastic bags a different color. They are kind of like ziplock/trashbags/dry-cleaning bags. I don’t want to paint it, because I want the color to stay on. Is there any way I could “dye” it?
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I don’t believe you can. However, you know that you can sometimes “stain” the bags if you have some really colourful food in it, such as tomatoes, or curry, or perhaps beets. But it is only a slight colour, not enough to make much change for you in the final product.
You can sometimes find coloured plastic dry-cleaning bags, and even ziplock has some too. Can you use any of the coloured store bags you can sometimes still get? So many stores now don’t give you bags, these are a rare commodity.
Krylon now sells a spray paint that
stays on plastic. You could try that.
Just use plenty of newspaper. You could try paint markers but I can’t say for sure if they will stay on the
plastic.
You could try concentrated Rit dye… it will transparently dye various plastics like fishing line, and some plastic tubing. Don’t know if it would work for polyethylene bags though, or for the more vinyl-like ziptop bags.
Diane B.