#dyeing

Textile-dyeing recipe maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the dye, water and auxiliary numbers a dyer weighs out to mix a repeatable dye-bath, whether for a swatch or a full bolt. The dye-weight endpoint gives the dye to weigh = the weight of fabric × the depth of shade, the percentage of dye on the weight of the goods: a 2 % shade on 100 g of fabric is 2 g of dye, pale shades run under half a percent, deep blacks 4 % or more — working on-weight-of-fabric is exactly what makes a recipe scale and repeat. The liquor-ratio endpoint gives the dye-bath volume = the weight of goods in kilos × the liquor ratio, the litres of bath per kilo (a 20:1 ratio is 20 L per kg); lower ratios save water, dye and energy and exhaust deeper, higher ratios level more evenly on delicate or pale work. The auxiliary endpoint gives the salt, soda ash or levelling agent to add = the bath volume × the dosing concentration in grams per litre — salt (50–80 g/L) drives reactive and direct dyes onto cotton, soda ash (10–20 g/L) raises the pH to fix them. Everything is on-weight or per-litre, so the same recipe gives the same colour and chemistry at any scale, and it is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for craft and studio dyers, textile and yarn shops, and dye-recipe and batch-calculator tools. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. 3 compute endpoints. For knitting yardage and gauge use a knitting API; for vegetable-ferment or meat-cure salt a fermentation or curing API.

api.oanor.com/dye-api