can you make homemade tye-dye dye?

Question

does it work as well as the kind you buy?
and how do you make it?

Answer 1

I know a man who does tie-dye at home for a living. His come out better than anything I've seen. Part of the trick is to mix the dye with double the amount of powder.

The formula on the bottle gives washed out looking colors. Another tip is to use boiling hot water, and protective gloves. He uses several wooden spoons and wooden tongs.

He has several galvanized steel tubs, and I have also seen him use plastic tubs for the final rinse.

Answer 2

I don't know how to make tye dye at home(but I know that it doesnt work as effectively). . . you can tye dye clothing with tye dye you buy at the stores and come in packets. At home, grab a metal bin. Pour in boiling water. Then choose a color and mix it in. Take your clothing piece and wrap it tight around an object such as a wine bottle to make interesting shapes. Grab a piece of string to tie the clothing TIGHT around the object. Lay it in the boiling water. After about maybe 15 minutes, take it out unwrap it and change the boiling water to new boiling water. Add and mix a new color and wrap the clothing again to another object or the same one and tie it tightly again. Keep doing this procedure until you like the designs. In the end it might come out brown but hand it up and let it dry. Then it will go back to the colors you chose.
Hope I helped. . .

Answer 3

no it wont work as well as dyelon or rit dye, go to joanns tomorrow and get a kit if there are any left, they had been half price the last two weeks. walmart has a kit too , i think it is ten bucks, you can use koolaid, one pakage per quart of water, and likely you need at least a gallon of each color, use white vinegar and salt in the cold water rinse, have the colored water boiling to start, you need a plastic bucket for each color and one for the vinegar and salt water bath. the colors will not be as bright as the fabric dye, they will eventually wash out, and they are not sun safe either, so they will fade, really its better to pay for your dye, you really only need 3 colors for any item, and start dying with the lightest color moving toward the darkest color, make sure your shirts are all cotton, wash in hot water with no fabric softener or dryer sheets, before dying, the fabric softener will coat the fibers and not let the dye in at an even rate.

Answer 4

Yes, you can. I have included a website that may help you!

Answer 5

yes u can but it doesn't come out as good as the kind you buy

Answer 6

Sure, use Kool-Aid! it works great

You can find recipes at: http://www.epilogsys.com/ScoutingWeb/SubPages/KoolAid.htm

Answer 7

yes.