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I have used the procion dyes, and they work excellently. They are permanent and color-fast as long as they are rinsed correctly after dying, so you can wash completed items. You do need to use soda ash to fix the procion dyes in the fabric, though.
Here is a recent one I dyed by crumpling the fabric, stuffing it in a jar, and pouring green, brown and peach dyes over it. I let it sit for about 45 minutes in the dye to soak up the color, then poured out the dye (leaving the fabric in the jar), and poured in the soda ash mix to fix the colors and letting that soak for a couple hours. Then I rinsed the fabric, and wound up with this:
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