What is Tie and Dye?

Question

This is my holiday assignment. Please help me with it. I really need help from it. If possible, please state a website containing all about tie and dye. Thank You!

Answer 1

These are some great sites to browse.You will most certainly find that between them they give you all the information you need including pictoral representation on how to tie your fabric before dyeing.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck.

Answer 2

I cant believe this fad has come back. When I was a kid we did this to all of my dads t-shirts one day, oh well , dad was not a happy camper. Anyway its was lots of fun. any color or colors . You are the artist. Take Rit Dye (liquid) is easier. You need a large container preferably a non staining. Maybe like a 5 gallon bucket. T-Shirt , dye, one or several colors depending on your choices.(But then you will need more containers) Rember it will stain . We used rubber bands , twisted the shirt in different areas . sorta scrunching it up and then twisted the rubberband around the material(front and back) After following instructions on bottle of dye, wet the t shirt, just damp, and put into the dye and let it soak untill timed allowed on instructions. The longer the soak the darker the color. (Wear rubber gloves) when you have the color desired take out of colored water and squeeze out.Let it dry and then remove bands and Presto, Your tie and dyed shirt. If your are doing several colors remember only put the one part you want colored pink for example, it will have to dry before you can procede with another color. Hope this helps. Sorry did not look up on internet for an address for actual directions. But you may find it on Home & Garden

Answer 3

Basically, since this is under the painting section, I'm assuming you're talking about "Tie-Dye." Basically, you tie a white shirt with string or rubber bands together and then put parts of it in vats of different-colored dyes to make random, psychedelic designs.

Answer 4

You mean like Tie Dye T-shirts? Where you tie the shirt and make it spin really fast while you drop dye on it, causing it to make all these freaky designs?

Answer 5

Use fiber reactive dye for tie-dyeing. Do not use all-purpose dye!

For pictures of successful tie dyeing--essential in helping you decide what you want to create--see my Gallery and some of the many beautiful commercial tie dyeing sites on my Links to other Galleries page.

Getting Started

Study the How to Dye basic recipe first. Make sure you have all the chemicals and supplies you need....Procion MX dyes, urea, sodium carbonate, thin rubber or plastic gloves, measuring cups and spoons, squirt bottles to put the dye solution into for application, rubber bands, dust mask for measuring out dyes, and a bucket for pre-soaking the fabric in sodium carbonate solution. If you don't have everything you need, you can still tie today, and be ready to dye when you get the rest of your equipment! Be sure to pre-wash all clothing to remove invisible finishes that can prevent the dye from getting to the fabric.

Why Tie?

The whole point of tie dyeing is to prevent the dye from reaching the fabric evenly. Any place that the dye can't reach will stay white, or a lighter color, of course. The gradations of color from intense to light can be beautiful. You can accomplish this by folding the fabric, tieing it with string, using rubber bands, etc.

Another reason to tie is that it makes each garment of piece of cloth a small, neat bundle--much easier to handle if you have a lot to do. If you don't tie, but just apply the dye directly, you need more space and can do fewer garments or pieces of fabric at a time.

Ways to Tie

Fold a piece of clothing in vertical pleats, and you'll end up with horizontal stripes. Horizontal pleats result in vertical stripes (more slimming, you know). Diagonal pleats make a nice effect. Stitch a loose basting stitch in any shape you like, then pull the threads tight for another form of tie-dyeing that can have really cool results. For concentric circles, grab the cloth where you want the center to be, and pull, until you've more or less made a long tube of the garment, then apply rubber bands at intervals along the fabric. I also like the "scrunch" pattern, made by crumpling the fabric very evenly, so that ultimately it makes a nice flat disk when held with rubber bands.

For the now-traditional spiral, see the FAQ, How do you tie-dye a spiral pattern?: you lay the garment on a flat smooth surface, smooth out all the wrinkles, then make a small pleat right across where you want the center to be. Grab the very center of that pleat with a clothes pin, and begin to twist. As you twist, pleats appear farther and farther away from the center; as these pleats get too large, split the pleats with your hands, keeping each fold the same height above the table, no more than one to two inches in height.

The Art of Tie-Dye DVD You should not really need pictures to do the above, because it is all trial and error, anyway. You can't know what works best for you until you try it. However, if you want to see pictures of how to do the ties, check out PROchem's illustrations of tie dye folds, actual photos of a tied spiral at Real Tie Dye, and Rit®'s Virtual spiral (though you'll find the dyeing process much easier if you use fiber reactive dyes such as Procion MX, instead of "all-purpose" dye such as Rit®, which requires that you hold the disk of fabric partially submerged in boiling water for a long time). A more advanced technique for tying is illustrated at The Kind Dyes. Mike Fowler's DVD The Art of Tie-Dye (illustrated at left) shows in great detail how to tie a number of different tie-dye folds, as do True Tie Dye's Tom Rolofson's wonderful "Learn How to Tie Dye" series of DVDs (see Amazon affiliate links at right side of page).

Answer 6

its an art in shirt printing...
>>get a plain shirt
>>tie it into 3 ( make it tight ) ( or more,depends on Uu...)
>>get a fave paint or spray
>>dye the shirt w/ the tie still on it
>>let dry...
>>you will get like waves on the shirt
>>the tying created the art for the paint...

Answer 7

It's called tie dye and it's when you tie the fabric up and dip it in dye. Think of the 'hippy' teeshirts back in the sixties, that's what it is.
http://www.dharmatrading.com/tie-dye/

Answer 8

in case you placed bleach on the spots which you particularly choose white and then wash it the bleach will thoroughly run in the technique the great shirt ruining it. so i might desire to represent in basic terms going out and finding out to purchase a clean shirt and larger tie die.

Answer 9

Just do NOT use the washing machine..ugh..messy

Answer 10

a way to make grooooovy shirts!