Best way to make tie dye shirts?

Question

I want to make tie dye shirts i need help i want them to turn out the best the can?
please and thank you.

Answer 1

I have made tie dyed shirt on several occasions.
I pretty much did the same as the other 2 answers you received but there is something else I did to mine...

I took the white Tshirt and grabbed the center in the front (and back separately) and with one hand on the inside of the shirt, the other hand on the outside... I poked the shirt down into my hand creating a hole... I poured a contrasting color of powdered RIT dye into the hole the pinched the top of the hole and secured it with a rubber band and proceeded to use Cotton twine to wrap around the 2 layers of Tshirt material wrapping up tight the inserted dye>

then I tied more twine and/or rubber bands on other places of the shirt.... arms. neck bottom. Then I Dipped the whole shirt into the color I wanted the shirt to be following the dying directions on the box of RIT Dye.

Tying it like this will create a burst of color in the middle of the circle

Answer 2

Hello Carol. You need a white cotton shirt. Dyes which you can get from a craft shop. Some salt(about2tablespoons),and some large thick rubber bands.
Twist the shirt up, or bunch it, and secure with elastic bands.Get a big bucket or similar and stir dye into hot water(check-some dyes can be put into cold water).Drop shirt into dye. Leave for about 30 mins.Remember the fabric looks darker when wet. Remove garment and let it drip dry.When damp, resoak garment in water with salt in. The salt sets the dye. When that is all done, and garment is dry, take off rubber bands.

Answer 3

get a lot of rubber bands.

tie off sections of the shirt with the bands. make it very haphazard and you will end up with a knobbly ball of shirt. use about 20-30 bands. after dying the effect will be circles with spikes.

another way is to twist the shirt into a long line then put rubber bands along the length. this will give the effect of rings around the shirt.

If you use a light colour to start with you can do the process over again and put the bands in different spots. This one you have unusual colours as well.

If you want to experiment first use an old pillowcase and then you can choose which method you like best.

Tie dying can give heaps of fun.

Answer 4

I would recommend you get a tie dying kit for your first project. They cost under $20, and you can dye several shirts from the one kit. The kit is available in larger craft stores. Look for the 40% off coupons offered at Michale's and A.C.Moores. I'm giving you a site for some different folding instructions.
http://www.prochemical.com/directions/Folding.htm

Answer 5

we had that as a project in school before (i'm a fashion design graduate). i used powder dyes and rubber band.
dissolved the powder dye in water. tie rubber bands aroung the parts you wish to have the "tie-dye effect" on. 3-4 rubber banned area will do, but, it's really up to you. then, soak the whole thing in the water dye. leave it in for a minute or 2, or until the whole thing got colored with the dye. take it out. and carefully cut out the rubber bands.
i did that and my teacher loved my work. come to think of it... i don't think i got my project back..

Answer 6

in case you place bleach on the spots which you extremely prefer white and then wash it the bleach will thoroughly run for the period of the completed blouse ruining it. so i could advise merely going out and finding out to purchase a clean blouse and greater tie die.