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I really love the style of this shirt to use as a team sand soccer shirt because the solid dyed side will highlight the screen printing. Can anyone please tell me how I would do this? I know I would fold the wave pattern and tie tightly to retain much white. I also assume I scrunch dye one side, but how would you suggest I get the more solid color on the other side? I was thinking that this shirt looks more like a reverse bleach dye but I want to create the same effect w/procion dyes. Maybe dip dye that side? Thanks for any tips!!

I really love the style of this shirt to use as a team sand soccer shirt because the solid dyed side will highlight the screen printing. Can anyone please tell me how I would do this? I know I would fold the wave pattern and tie tightly to retain much white. I also assume I scrunch dye one side, but how would you suggest I get the more solid color on the other side? I was thinking that this shirt looks more like a reverse bleach dye but I want to create the same effect w/procion dyes. Maybe dip dye that side? Thanks for any tips!!

I've been lurking here about four years on and off, and now I'm hoping to get help with a question I've had.

I keep seeing shirts with specific veiny marks, and that's something I want to try for my own personal usage. I'm having trouble with the technique, though. Is it LWI with salt? Freezer dyeing with dye sprinkled on it?

Any help would be appreciated!

(I've attached photos; I can't tell if they will show up in the post below or now. )

Heres an interesting one. I did a large batch of orange garments with just a small amount of dark pink dyed areas. I must have washed half of them with maybe some darker items in the initial washout (with Synthrapol) and the other half I must have washed with lighter items, because half of them came out still orange and half came out light tan. I have tried boiling out the tan ones several times and absolutely nothing changed. I have tried re washing the lighter orange with another load of darker items and it came out darker like I was hoping but with small spots of blue or purple. This happened several times.

Hey all, I know that a bunch of you have taught tie dye to newbies. I could use any advice you'd like to give me.

I've been invited to a "Woodstock" style summer picnic in June to teach tie dye to small groups of people. I'll have one assistant. My plan is the classic: bring them the shirts & rubber bands, explain a bit about the chemicals, give them a choice of two or three folds, soak the shirts while explaining about dye, hand out a few colors of premixed dye, apply, bag, and explain the washout they must do at home. I'll have a handout they can take away.

A couple of specific questions:

hi everyone!

I am just about to order 8 bazillion shirts for a camp I run the Tie-Dye program for. This year they want to have their name and logo on the front of the shirt so when the kids wear their amazing shirts, they are advertising the camp as well.

Anyway - I am wondering which way is the best way to screen print their logo so that it will be seen. Should it be done in white? black? should it be a kind of print that has a feel to it and is "above" the shirt so that it wont take any of the dye?

any ideas?

thanks!

~Elisheva
www.groovesters.com/index.php

Do you soak the tee shirt in the soda ash solution before you tie the shirt or do you tie the shirt first and then soak in the fixer solution.

If you do your rinse in the washing machine with synthropol and cold water - do you leave the rubber bands on and only take them off when you do the final wash on the teeshirt?

Thanks.

Karen

1. I would like to know how I can spray-dye with dyes (is it the same concentration as squeeze bottle dying??).
2. Then I would like to know how to do spray-dying to get different effects, i.e. branches, splatter, sharp lines in abstract patters, soft abstract designs, etc.
3. Is spray dying the way to go -- or is there an easier way?

Even though I have tie-dyed using Colorado Dyes (which I have been successful in regular dying and some tie-dying), I am relatively new at all this.

I am attaching one of the outfits I made with Colorado Dyes.

Hey All,

I have seen and made myself some Earth Day shirts, as well I have seen some Sun shirts out there, but as of yet no Moon shirts..... so here is my creation, a moon on the front and the Big Dipper on the back.

I have a pair of pants that I tried to salvage for someone. They tried to dye them using rit and then I think bleached them out. I soaked them in soda ash and as I was applying procion charcoal grey to them could smell the bleach. I folded them neatly after dyeing and let them rest in the tub for a few days before rinsing out. Just to give the dye extra time.
Parts of them would not take that dye at all and remained a lighter color while some parts were streaky almost black.
Any ideas on how I can fix them? The person really wanted grey, but I think we are going to need to go black or very dark.

Now that the fall and winter are rapidly approaching here in Upstate New York, I am looking for ideas on how to batch with the colder temps. In the summer I batch in my garage. Last year I batched in the bathroom with the door closed, even then only got around 70-73 degrees. Any ideas from those of you in the colder climates? Thanks

so as my "studio" right now is our only bathtub in the house, I usually don't have days on end that I can Tie-Dye huge batches of clothing - which I was used to doing way back when. in any case, I am getting ready for Tie-Dye week (which is basically just a hard core week of Tie-Dyeing to prepare for all the upcoming festivals and whatnot) and I found a bucket filled with pre-soaked tied up items...just completely dry. I mean, REALLY dry. so dry in fact that I can pry apart the items. This happened, I am sure, after I did a couple of days of Tie-Dyeing and just couldn't finish everything. So i'm sure I thought, "I'll just let these dry out and then I'll come back to them".

Hey! I have been wondering forever on how to do this technique. I know how to do the stripes curving downward but the little strips of black inside the white that seem to have almost little blocks. How do I achieve this? Does anyone know? I have also seen dresses with strips like this all the way down and that being the main pattern.
I feel silly for not knowing this. Any help is so super appreciated!
http://www.exoticexcess.com/apparel/debbie-katz-south-beach-long-halter-dress/

Been wanting to put a couple pics of what I"ve been working on. Believe the heart pic came. I have one of a dress and a shirt.

[Click on the image to see it full-sized. -P.]

I'm going to give this sunflower a go. I kind of think that the sunflower itself was batiked then the green background was scrunch tie dyed. The flower seems too symmetrical & neat to have been tied. What do you think?

Hi All,
Well being a teeshirt and tank top type of artisan, I eventually had to move up to sleeves and legs. In the first picture attached you will see a pair of size ten cotton leggings I purchased from Dharma. What I did is turn the garment inside out, and on the label side, drew mirrored curved lines traced off my 'Golden curve', 2/3 of the way from the crotch seam to the waist with a watercolour marker, so that the apex of the mirrored curves met at the centre line of the garment. the lower ends of the curves are about 1 1/2 inches inside the outer edge of the legs. Mirrored as best as possible. I then used a small dinner plate to trace semi-circular arcs from the end of the curve point at the top of legs, to the bottom hem of each leg. Symmetry is

I just got a request to make a Tie-Dyed bath robe and I have no clue how to do this. She would like designs on it as well - like a heart and guitar, but the fabric will be so thick it will be impossible to do. I'm also thinking that the fabric itself will absorb an enormous amount of dye which will be very expensive to make. Does anyone have any ideas on a more cost effective way to make something like this?

thanks!

~Elisheva
www.groovesters.com

I'm pretty new to dying and I'd like to do this w/ a white shirt I have. I don't want the colors to muddy each other. Recs for the best method to achieve this pattern?
Thanks!!

Been tye dyeing for a little while now. I"ve embarked upon sewing designs, kinda like shibori. Heres my dilemma.
I sewed a "leaf" on some scrap fabric. Folded fabric in half, used a marker to make half a leaf and then sewed it with dental floss and pulled TIGHT TIGHT. All seems well. I used some thickened procion dye and added it to the leaf area. The dye STILL ran under my sewing!! It cannot get ANY tighter so I'm thinking my dye wasn't thickened enough.
I have a shirt that was totally sewn(has some cool designs on bottom and a guitar in the middle. Its ALL white lines where its been tied and the rest of shirt one color. VERY cool. The artist who made it said they sew them then set them in a dye bath.

My son wants a Red front, Navy Blue(Boston Redsox) back tiedye. Not sure how to do without ending up with purple in the middle. Help please! :)