Chrome dye

Chrome dyes are synthetic dyes fixed with a chromium compound, potassium dichromate. In the 20th century they replaced the early anilines in commercial rug dyeing: they are cheaper than natural dyes, fast to light and washing, and easy to match from batch to batch, so chrome-dyed fields tend to be uniform. By 1949 an Iranian government conference listed aniline and chrome dyes among the industry's problems.

Also chrome-dyed · synthetic dye · synthetic dyes · modern synthetic dyes · chrome yellow · chrome red

See also Aniline dye, Abrash, Natural dye

Last reviewed November 2026