Shibari Nylon Rope Color Imperfections
When we set out to create our own dyed rope we thought it would be as simple as throwing a bottle of dye into a pot and adding some rope. It only took a few hours to realize that wasn't the reality.
Well, at least it wasn't our reality.
You see, our initial goal was to create a full spectrum of colored rope for the HLP humanpup club for use during their monthly bondage parties. Since humanpups and humanpets come in all shapes, sizes, and colorful tastes, we couldn't just dye a few hundred feet of rope of a single color. In fact, we dove right in and dyed 6,000 feet of rope in 11 different colors to match a variety of HLP Member's favorite colors.
The Strugles of Dyeing Uniform Solid Color Rope
We quickly learned that creating a uniform solid color was impossible without very large pots that could fit and fully submerge 500ft of rope at a time. We also did a lot of trial and error with how to arrange the rope in our large pots to allow for full color absorption.
However, no matter how hard we tried, there were still times when lighter blemishes appeared on our rope like what you see in the blue rope photo shown here.
At first glace those blemishes look white, but when you compare them to our light blue rope you can see that the blemishes are actually light blue as shown here:
Compare the lighter blemishes on the dark blue rope to our light
blue rope and you'll see that the blemishes are also light blue.
It doesn't seem to matter how much you stir or move the nylon rope around in the boiling dye bath, sometimes these lighter color blemishes are impossible to avoid.
You can see our dyed deep purple nylon rope doesn't show any blemishes at all, but our lavender rope does.
Dyed Rope Has Natural Color Variations
Even though we've refined our dyeing process since we began this journey in January 2022, we've come to realize that dyed rope will always have color variations throughout the rope.
Color variations are natural.
When you order your rope, you'll get rope from the same spool that you see in the photos for that color batch, but the actual hue of color, and the potential for blemishes, will be different for each of the ropes you receive.