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Retayne 4 oz
Before you start cutting out the fabric for your quilt, wash your commercially dyed cotton fabrics in Retayne®. This color fixative prevents fabric dyes from running and ruining your quilt.

• Stop the Bleed, Color fixative for commercially dyed cotton fabrics.

Particularly valuable to quilters. Use a teaspoon per yard of fabric in a hot soak for 30 minutes, then wash in hot water with Synthrapol  to get out any remaining "fugitive" dye.

By	broadway mama "broadway mama" (Ohio)

I buy and sell antique linens. A lot of estate linens have been packed away for years and were never washed. Long time storage causes fold lines and spots from the starch, so I have to wash them so they are appealing to customers, who want them nice and fresh. I had trouble with colors running into each other before using Retayne, even when hand washing. The most important articles are vintage quilts, where there are dozens of colors in one quilt. Since using Retayne I've had no trouble. And I do use cold water, but I make sure the Retayne is added and given a chance to mix in the water before I add the quilt. I also add Woolite and wash on as short a cycle as possible if the items are delicate. The Retayne has never failed me. Red material sitting right next to white material has not run.