Patent ID: 7503940

Claim:
A method for spot-dyeing a damaged area on a textile, comprising the steps of: inspecting the damaged area through a primary color loss filter; determining whether a primary color is missing from the damaged area by being able to view the damaged area through the primary color loss filter to, thereby, confirm that the primary color is missing from the damaged area; placing a white material on an undamaged area of a textile to be dyed; viewing through the color loss filter the white material and the undamaged area of a textile; matching a contrast between the white material and the undamaged area of a textile with a gray scale; preparing at least one working dye solution according to a dilution rate corresponding to the match on the gray scale; and applying at least one of a primary color dye, corresponding to the selected color loss filter, to the damaged area, while viewing the damaged area through the color loss filter, until the damaged area is substantially invisible through the color loss filter.