Tie Dye in the 60s?

Question

What was the meaning of tie dye in the 60s? Did it symobilize anything, and are their any other interesting facts about it?

Answer 1

The Tie Dye represents what we stoners would see on Acid.

Answer 2

It wasn't symbolic per se, but it was a sort of homage to exotic cultures.
In the 1960s there was a great interest among young people in the East. People were listening to Ravi Shankar and discovering Buddhism, and tie dye was a simple and inexpensive way to approximate the appearance of Indian batik dying. There are also several centuries-old tie dye traditions that originated in Japan and Africa.
Really, tie dye in the 60s was in the same spirit as modern teenagers and twenty-somethings embracing the Gothic Lolita style. It was an imitation of something new and exotic from another land.

Answer 3

Interesting question. I don't think there was a specific meaning to any type of tie dye. It is sort of quasi oriental.

The entire art form sort of symbolized the late 60's idea of expanded consciousness "Wow, man, check out the pretty colors."

Tie dye is closely linked with the San Francisco music scene around 67 or 68, especially the Grateful Dead.

Maybe someone else has more info.

Answer 4

See Olive.
We made our own. Take 1 white tshirt tie it up with string so its all scrunched up.then dye in your chosen dye.Undo string & hey presto tie dyed t shirt. Dry.Repeat process with another colour if you want.
Got some crazy patterns.Was glad to see the end of it.
Its a wonder some fasion designer has'nt rediscoverd it.
It was also interseting to see if someone had'nt set the dye properly & then got caught in the rain,it ruined your undies & you had a multi colured your body.
Mums were fed up with the mess

Answer 5

no meaning I know of..perhaps it was artistic and colorful and flamboyant...hippies of the 60's were setting themselves apart from the establishment