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Subject Topic: can you dye the inner tent? Post Reply Post New Topic
Personleon perry
24/8/2010 at 1:03pm
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it might sound like a silly question, but i have a good reason.
my inner tent is white which i find that my tent doesnt get dark enough in side. even in pitch black i can still see about in my tent. i like it dark.

i just want to make the inside seen darker.

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PersonLQA!
24/8/2010 at 1:54pm
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I know that you cannot dye polyester.

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24/8/2010 at 3:10pm
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No reason why not. They say to dry clean them only, but mine had been washed by the previous owners.
Dylon do a machine dye you could try. Uptake of the colour will depend on the ratio of man made fibre to natural, but it's worth a try. The only thing is, the inners are made from a fairly loose weave fabric, which is never going to be very light proof. It may be worth asking a seamstress to make up another inner out of a denser, dark coloured fabric (I'm assuming that you mean the inner for a TT/folding camper which doesn't have a plastic groundsheet attached)


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Leon, I am presuming that you mean the inner tent on your 4 man dome?  There have been some postings on this site before aabout the best method of making it darker. have you tried the survival sheets [ thin aluminium sheets ]  if you get about 3 of these you should be able to make a pattern from on of your bed  pods slightly larger and so cover the inner. I would not make the cover reach the floor, just the top of the groundsheet. so as to avoid wicking water up and onto the inner though.  I just draped plain black cheapo [Tesco ] bedsheets over the kids bedrooms. Seemed to work fine.


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25/8/2010 at 10:41am
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It should be quite easy to just tack an extra liner to the insides of your bedroom pod.  As above you could try with a black tesco sheet and it would not even take much sewing skills.



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