Quote Originally Posted by skiptomylu View Post
Yes it all depends on who is doing it. I talk with some of the guys that do the color dying and all. I have several shades of Chart and actually am waiting for the next time they die some marabou because I like mine a little different than most sell. The guy told me the next batch he would add more of what it takes to get to the color I got before from them. I even mailed him back some feathers to ask if what they have now matches mine and it didn't, but next batch will, LOL!

California is making some of these problems as they keep outlawing some kinds of die and it changes the companies colors.

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yes I probably have some die there is probably bad for the environment is the chemical makeup of it is very old but good. I think some of the stuff I have is more than 40 years old. I think I have one or two of herders which I wish they were still in business. Yes it is getting harder can find a good die source in a corset is terribly expensive the last time I bought 1 pound it cost me over 100 bucks with a shipping. But 1 pound will die a lot of stuff in it takes a special talent to produce the same color time after time. Custom dyeing is a thing of the past resisted the quite a few guys that did that. I got into doing it a long time ago mainly because I enjoy doing it one of the reasons why I buy most of my material in white . I think the most common color that I work with is chartreuse second is white third is black. All other colors are I consider to be order only if we do not stock 40,000 different colors. And you definitely could put a lot of money into buying different colors mean you know that skip.