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Other question is... don't we have a sample here of a stained glass shirt? Probably culled from some other site? I have spent hours going thru the old messages and can't find it, and I know I just saw it a few weeks ago browsing thru old messages after something else.

I always just use a google search, in this case site:pburch.net stained glass. I don't see a picture in those results, though. There is one that Jaja posted under "Spider Folds", in Basic folds for tie-dyeing, under the Tie dyeing topic, back in July 2006. I found it via a google search for site:pburch.net spider.

Stained glass refers to the effect you get by tie-dyeing a shirt in brilliant colors, then, without untying, briefly laying one side of the shirt down in a shallow pan of intense black dye. It's most commonly used with a spiral tie, but it works with any tie. There is an entry in the Tie Dye Wiki for how to do a Stained Glass Spiral. [update: moved to here]

I remember an online application a while back, that let me put in quantities of dyes and give me an approximation of what the color would be. I seem to have lost that url somehow, and have no clue how to find it. It was pretty handy... not fool proof, but gave you a close enough idea for mixtures that you might try yourself using the MX dyes. If anyone remembers this thing, please tell me??!

That would be Olli Niemitalo's wonderful Dye Mixer Applet. You have to figure out by experimentation how many grams of dye powder to use for each individual color, if you want it to tell you exactly how much of each dye to use for a given mixture, but it's great for getting ideas and working out color mixtures even if you never get around to doing that.