Dying Deer Hair??

[Gael]

Out of interest, has anyone tried dying deer hair and what was your success like.

The reason I ask is that I’m looking to try and get a light olivey yellow colour deer hair and the only stuff I can find is the bright yellow stuff (bleached white and then dyed yellow).

Was thinking of maybe taking one of these bright yellow deer hair patches and trying to dye it with some olive clothing dye.

Another idea would probably be to try and find natural deer hair that has been dyed yellow, though I have yet to see any of the local agents import this colour

[dlampert]

Out of interest, has anyone tried dying deer hair and what was your success like.

The reason I ask is that I’m looking to try and get a light olivey yellow colour deer hair and the only stuff I can find is the bright yellow stuff (bleached white and then dyed yellow).

Was thinking of maybe taking one of these bright yellow deer hair patches and trying to dye it with some olive clothing dye.

Another idea would probably be to try and find natural deer hair that has been dyed yellow, though I have yet to see any of the local agents import this colour

Hi Gael,

I think Tom uses picric acid to dye Klippies a nice yellow for DDD's. Check out this article for more info: http://globalflyfisher.com/staff/verhaar/picricacid/

Regards,
Darryl

[Gael]

Very interesting article, will definitly keep it in mind in the future.

[Gael]

Well, played around a little bit today.

On the left is a test patch of a piece of deer hair I dyed and on the right is the original colour.

I used Dylon coldwater dye (with fixative) in leaf green, prepared as per instruction.

The original deer hair was Hareline Body hair, Yellow over white.