How do you tie-dye clothing?

Answer 1

Tie-dye uses fiber-reactive dyes, where the color sort of fuses with the actual fiber of the material (why almost all tie-dye you see is on cotton, natural fibers play nice with dye!) This means that if your tie-dyed shirt is already died, and has been heat set -- this is the most important step in dyeing, usually tie-dyed stuff is thrown for a cycle round the drying machine, otherwise it can be ironed -- then you wash normally. Just wash the shirt according to general laundry rules, in cold water, and you'll be fine. If you didn't dye the shirt yourself and are not sure what sort of dye was used, experiment with soaking the shirt or running hot water over it and seeing if the color comes away. If it does, try ironing the shirt with a press cloth (a piece of scrap fabric, usually muslin or white cotton) between the iron and the garment, and the garment and ironing board (otherwise you'll have a lovely tie-dyed ironing board cover!) then putting it in the dryer for a cycle all alone. Hopefully that will heat set the dye if that step was ignored by the dyer. The whole point of dying any article of clothing, espeically with fiber reactive dye, is to fundamentally change the material, so as long as you are careful washing a tie-dyed shirt should not hurt it.

Answer 2

here are the few steps to tiedying a shirt: 1: get WHITE shirt. 2:take rubber bands and wrap them on parts of shirt. 3:dip in food colred water. 4: let dry. The above is right on, but wanted to add, if you want multi-colors then have 3 - 4 different bowls of dye. The dye can be bought in either a Craft Store or some grocery stores in the aisle where the laundry soaps are.

Answer 3

First, get a tie-dye set. You can find them at any craft store.

There should be directions in the kit that tell you how to create nifty designs, but I will inform you of the basic "spray and splatter" method. This is the simples way of tie-dying, involving a t-shirt just being sprayed with tie-dye bottles. Just spray and squirt the bottle of tie-dye like you would a glue bottle onto the t-shirt in any desired pattern. There isn't a right or wrong way, as tie-dying is all about creativity.

Answer 4

OK here are the steps,

1.find a white shirt

2.take hair ties and crunch it all up them

3.take paint (your color choices)

4.put paint in squeezer things...

5.squeeze or splat pant all over the shirt (you can leave white if you want to)

6.take out hair ties

7.hang shirt until dry

8.ENJOY YOUR NEW SHIRT!!

Answer 5

as many years with teedee (if you will) experience ive rarely wondered what would be a possible way to teedee (again if you will) some snazzy canvas sneaks and how to do it first tee.

1st step- wash your sneaks in vinegar

2nd step- pre heat your oven to 450 and place shoes in for 23 seconds

3rd step- take you dye of choice (i for one choose powdered shenanigans)

4th step- while your shoes are still warm dip them in the colour you choose but only the part you want covered. repeat this process 3 times and on different areas with different colours.

5th step- drink some bubble tea and enjoy the tapioka while it lasts.

6th step- jk lol

7th step- wash your shoes with elastics wrapped around them and tied or wrapped around in different patterns.

8th step- enjoy the street cred you will get when you trot down the streets in your snazzy new sneaks.

WARNING- dont try this if you are hearing inpared or pregnant and always where your seat belt.

Answer 6

Get a plain white shirt and use rubber bands and tie it in places dip it in dye take it out and squeeze it take rubber bands off and hang it to dry oh and where gloves of else the dye will stain your hand for like a week

Answer 7

This how-to will teach you how to make a tye-die shirt. The design we will be making will be the basic spiral, which is how most tye-dye shirts are made.

• 1 Get some type of bottle to dispense the dye. A good idea would be to use something like a mustard or ketchup bottle like you would find in some restaurants. You want something just like that, but maybe a little smaller.
• 2 Get a white T-shirt and wet it. Wring it out pretty good, so it is damp. Lay it out on a flat surface. Put your finger in an area around the middle. That will be the center of your spiral.
• 3 Leaving your finger in the middle of the begin to wind the shirt around your finger, making sure the shirt stays relatively flat. Continue to do that until you get it all wound up. It should be about as tall as a doorknob, and the diameter relatively close to that of a saucer.
• 4 Put three to four rubber bands around it. You should space them out relatively evenly, so it sort of looks like a pie.
• 5 Fill up your sink with just enough water so that the shirt can be fully submerged. Pour a good bit of soda ash into the water. Not a ton, but a decent amount. Mix it in with the water fairly well. Let the shirt soak in that for about 20-25 minutes. When the 20 minutes are up, wring the shirt out fairly well. Do not rinse.
• 6 When you put the colors in, you want to add enough so you don't see white. You don't want to put so much in that there are little puddles lying around on the shirt. Make sure you get into all the little folds of the shirt. For each section (the little things that look like slices of pie), alternate colors. You could also mix colors, like blue and yellow.
• 7 Get some plastic wrap or something and cover your shirt for 24 hours.
• 8 After 24 hours, run water over the shirt until the water dripping out is fairly clear. Then you can cut the rubber bands off to see what it looks like.
• 9 Directly after rinsing, throw just the shirt into the washer with warm water. Use liquid soap. After the wash, just throw it into the dryer for about 20 minutes.

Answer 8

To tie-dye a hat, you will need:

White cotton hat

10 rubber bands

4 or 5 gallon bucket

Red or blue fabric dye

Paint stir stick

Paper towels

Scissors

Step 1: Soak your hat in cold water. Remove from water and wring water out. Empty water from bucket.

Wrap a rubber band tightly around the center of the hat. Place one hand under the hat and poke up a portion of the hat in the center. Tightly wrap a rubber band around the poke so that about one inch of the hat is gathered above band.

Step 2: Repeat on both sides of rubber-banded section, about three inches to the outside and about three inches above the first banded section. Do two more sections about three inches to the outside and about three inches below the center banded section. Poke up a section in the center front of the hat and wrap a rubber band around the section.

The final 4 rubber bands will be used for the cap's brim. Crisscross four rubber bands across the brim of the hat, two from left to right and two from right to left.

Step 3: Wearing rubber gloves, fill bucket with hot water. Add a packet of dye and mix.

Step 4: Put your hat in dye bath (wear rubber gloves when you do this!). Use a paint stick to push down. After 30 minutes, remove hat from dye bath. Blot the hat with paper towels.

Step 5: Run cold water over hat until water runs clear. Cut rubber bands off. Let air dry.

Answer 9

you use white vinegar if its not 100% cotton