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Excess dye dripped down and under the cooling rack instead of getting onto the shirt where I didn’t want it to.

In this case, I wanted to keep the majority of my shirt white, so I had to be extra careful while applying the dye. Step 3: Pleat the shirt along the first line, turning the curved line into a straight line. Step 2: Draw a rainbow shape on the bottom of the shirt, then draw a second line that parallels the first. Step 1: Lay a damp shirt flat on a plastic drop cloth. Every pattern is shown in the same order in greater detail. The easiest way to learn these techniques is to watch the video.

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Gallon Sized Zip Bags (to put the shirt in while the dye sets).

Cooling Rack (keeps the project away from dye puddles).

Paper Towels and/or Baby Wipes (for cleaning up drips).

Spray Bottle (in case parts of the shirt start to dry out).

Most tie dye kits come with everything you need minus the actual shirt, but here is a list with a few extras that are helpful. Give me all the rainbows! They also sell single color kits in larger amounts if you want to dye a bunch of shirts the same color (like for a dance team, etc.) What Supplies Do I Need To Tie Dye?

The package I picked had the whole rainbow of colors because, well, I am me. Then the only thing you need to decide is which colors you want to use. I would say 2/3 is a good rule of thumb… if the package says 36, you can probably get 24 shirts out of it. Also, I have found that I can never make quite as many shirts as the package says. Once the dye powder has been mixed with water, it has to be used within 72 hours, so don’t buy a kit that is bigger than you need because you can’t really save it for later. There are two factors to consider: how many shirts you will be dying and the colors that you would like to use.Įvery package of tie dye will give you an estimated number of shirts that can be dyed with the amount of dye included. They also have long-sleeved tees, baseball tees and solid white sweatshirts.

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Hobby Lobby has all sizes of cotton t-shirts in stock, including baby, toddler and children’s sizes all the way up to adult plus sizes. They have every dye kit you could ever want and their shirts are a total bargain so it is a one-stop-shop. Hobby Lobby has the largest and best selection of tie dye related goodies, but you can also find tie dye at Walmart, Michaels and Amazon. Where’s The Best Place to Buy A Tie Dye Kit?

Where’s The Best Place to Buy A Tie Dye Kit?.

There is always an element of randomness and chance to the results. The most basic patterns- circles, dots, lines, squares and diamond shapes-are typically repeated in varying sizes and scale. It may be dyed repeatedly using different methods to ‘reserve’ areas from dye penetration during a vat-immersion or dip-dye process. Cloth may be drawn up and bound, stitched and gathered, pleated, folded, clamped, or tightly wrapped around a pole or other shaped object. Specific local techniques, whether simple or more intricate, vary widely, but all rely on a few basic principles. Sometimes these techniques of fabric decoration have arisen independently sometimes they have been passed across cultures through trade and exchange, but it is thought that tie-dyeing often developed in conjunction with indigo cultivation. Commonly known as shibori in Japan, bandhani and lahariya in India, plangi and tritik in Indonesia, and adire in Ghana, kindred techniques are also used extensively on textiles from southwest China, the Himalayas, North and sub-Saharan Africa as well as pre-and post-conquest South America. Like ikat, shaped-resist textiles are culturally ubiquitous.

The third, our subject here, comprises a variety of cloth binding and compression techniques that are popularly grouped together under the ‘tie-dye’ label, but are collectively best described as ‘shaped-resist dyeing’. The second uses a resist medium such as wax, paste, mud or other compound, applied or painted onto the woven cloth surface, and will be considered in a later issue. The first, featured in HALI 200, is ikat, in which warp and/or weft yarns are pre-dyed before weaving. Resist-dyed textiles fall into three broad categories. Worldwide locations of the textiles illustrated