I cleaned a rug this evening using my wash pit, a rotary scrubber and my custom built drying racks. I did a bleed test on the top of the rug and determined that it was NOT a bleeder, however I did not test the bottom and that was a mistake. A few hours after i hung the rug to dry, I came back and the blue from the back of the rug had bled in to the fringe. Is there anyway to get this out of the white fringe. This is a great customer and I would really love to keep her. Thanks Sean K
I know that Masterblend has a fringe bleach that would probably take it out. I would call Masterblend and see what they say. You can paint it on with a paint brush, so that you can controll it. I have used the product with success.
The MasterBlend works great for stuff like this. One thing you'll have to take into account is that it WILL make the fringe white...not necessarily the route you want to go if the fringe is not white to begin with. There is also a nifty little doohickey (as I'm sure you all know, that is a technical term with a highly specific meaning) we use in our shop when we're bleaching fringe, a little portable steamer kind of thing. Can't think of brand name off top of my head, but you get the drift. It's got a flat rectangular attachment on the end that we place over the fringe after putting the bleach on, and it accelerates the process. Place steamer on fringe for 15 seconds, and even bad bleeding with red dye is no more. POOF! Paintbrush sounds like a good idea, but we've used a dropper (kinda like a medicine dropper/syringe type deal) to apply it to the fringe with good results.
