How to Tie Dye

Transcript I’m going to show you how to make circle patterns with tie-dyeing. I have two examples that I want to show you. In this one I followed a pattern to position my circles, so you can see I have this swirly line that I created with my circles. I n this one over here …

Transcript I’m teaching you how to do a spiral using tie dye, this time. As you can see you follow the spiral line around here in the pattern, and that is actually created by pinching the fabric and swirling it around, and it’s the swirling that will create the spiral. You can see with my …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to dye a pair of stockings. There’s many ways you can do it and my favorite is just to apply colors randomly. I really like the watercolor effect that you can get out of this; I’m not a big fan of big patterns in tights so I’m going …

Transcript Hi guys. My name is Issa and I’m the dyer and teacher and studio manager at The Textile Art Center. I got into textiles because I studied textile conservation and the reason for that is because my family has always been really passionate about textiles. All my grandmothers and my mother, they’re makers and …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to create shapes and words and whatever images you want using Elmer’s glue. This is not really tie dye but a variation, but its a really fun project and I’m sure you’ll like it. All you need is fabric and plain old, white glue and a paintbrush, and …

Transcript Another really cool tie dyeing technique is called pole wrapping, and as the name says, you’ll pretty much be wrapping your fabric around a pole. The effect that that makes is a zebra stripe kind of effect and it looks really complicated, but actually it’s really easy to make. You’ll see how easy pretty …

Transcript I’m going to teach you how to do a bulls-eye pattern, which is a favorite amongst kids and adults as well, and you can use them for all different purposed. In this one I just use one color, but I’m going to show you two ways. One, making the bulls-eye with just one color …

Transcript I’m going to teach you how to make any shape you want, up here on your fabric using tie dye. For instance in this example, I have these saw-edged shapes appearing and I have another example where I have these flower-like stars appearing too, but you really can make any shape you want. For …

Transcript I’m going to teach you how to dye a very simple tote bag using tie-dye. One of my favorite techniques to dye bags is just simply scrunch it in a random way so you can get these very organic but also subtle and cool patterns. I’m going to be using the color black because …

Transcript I am going to show you how to tie dye a dress. For this simple tank top dress, I chose to use a black color, a nickel color, and a bordeaux. I think I am going to go for vertical stripes, pretty random, but keeping it very simple and casual. Let us see how …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to tie-dye a t-shirt. I have an example here in which I actually did some stripes and this one look that you can go for and for the stripes, which is pretty much gather it and rubber band it and repeat it. And for this one I’m going …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to make a diamond pattern using tie dye and this is actually one of my favorite techniques. I have an example here that you can see the diamond, and this is one version of it, and then I have a bigger diamond shape version of it in here. …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to do stitch resist. This is a really cool technique and even though it’s a little bit more advanced I’m going to guide you through it. This wave pattern was achieved just by stitching the waves that you see and gathering them together. The only stitch that you’ll …

Transcript One of my favorite ways to create stripes and lines is to just use masking tape. This is the only technique that I’ll suggest that you don’t start with your fabric wet, because it’s really hard to stick tape on to wet fabric. So you want to pre-activate your fabric by soaking it in …

Transcript In this video I’m going to teach you how to tie-dye yarn. This technique can be very useful when you’re trying to achieve a dyeing effect on the yarn that you have that you can’t find in stores or if you’re a knitter and you want to develop your very own colors. I think …

Transcript For this project, I’m going to teach you how to tie-dye sneakers. Sneakers can’t really be tie-dyed in the perfect sense of the word. It would be really hard to scrunch them and to tie them, but they can be painted to pretend that they were tie-dyed. So for my sneakers, I took out …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to make a box pattern using tie dye. This is an example of what you can make. You can see how neat it looks and it’s a great technique to use on shirts and bags and it looks really complicated and it’s actually really easy. So again, it’s …

Transcript One of my favorite techniques using fiber reactive dyes is dyeing using squeeze bottles. This technique really allows you to apply different colors at the same time, so think about it like pretty much painting with dyes, and it can be pretty cool. So I’m going to show you how to prepare the dye …

Transcript One of the techniques that you can use for tie dyeing is called emerging dyeing and that’s the most simple, easy to prepare of the dyeing techniques. It pretty much consists in preparing a dye vat in which you fully submerge the fabric. I’m going to explain you how to prepare a dye bath …

Transcript I’m going to show you now how to prepare the fabric and how to dye it using the squeeze bottles. So first you want to prepare what we call the activator solution. And that will just be a solution with washing soda or soda ash. Normally you would mix 9 teaspoons per gallon of …

Transcript Another variation on dyeing with squeeze bottles is by using a spray bottle instead, and you can get these really cool diverse effects. So once again, you start with your fabric wet, and you’ll soak it into the dye activator solution, which is a solution made with water and washing soda. So I’m going …

Transcript Tie-dying is an ancient technique that has been used for thousands of years all over the world. It consists of bundling and tying the fabric to create shapes and forms, and that happens because the bundled areas or the tied areas won’t get died, so a resist this happens. There’s different ways you can …

Transcript There’s many dyes that you can use for tie dyeing and your selection will depend in a number of factors, such as the nature of your fiber. For instance, if you are dyeing wool or if you’re dyeing silk or cotton. It will it also depend on the nature of your work. For instance, …

Transcript Here on the table I have all the supplies that you’ll need for tie dyeing. I have the dyes that are in powder form and they’re the kind of fiber reactive dyes and I also have the dye [inaudible 0:00:07] that you need to make them react and fix to the fiber. I also …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to make stripes using tie dye, as you can see in this shirt. I’m going to use this piece of fabric as an example and show you the different ways that you can align your stripes in the fabric. So, all you need to do to make a …

Transcript The dyes that I prefer to use in my work are fiber reactive dyes, also known as Procion dyes. And I like to use them because they provide a cheap but more or last longer alternative to the well known Rit dyes. They come in these containers, and in the powder form, and you …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to do ombre gradient tie-dye now. For that you’ll just prepare a normal immersion vat. I prepared this one by mixing my dye, which I choose a blue color in water with my dye activator, which is washing soda. For the ombre you want to prepare a dye …

Transcript One really cool technique for tie dying, specially for these cold months is using snow or ice as a resist for your dying. For that you need kind on not complicated but different set up. So you need a strainer or something with holes that will let the dye pass and you need a …

Transcript Another technique that you can use for tie dyeing is bleach dyeing, which is pretty much a reverse dyeing technique, so instead of adding color, you’ll be wanting to remove color out of a colored fabric. For bleach dyeing you can use plain bleach that should be as simple as possible, so it’s in …

Transcript Painting fabric can be really fun and painting with fiber reactive dyes is pretty easy. All you need is to prepare a couple of different dye solutions, as many as you want and you prepare them in squeeze bottles or any containers by simply mixing the dye with a little bit of urea, will …