DIY Crafts // Tie Dye

So I finally got around to doing tie dye and the step by step photographs for the Fabric Zine.  It was so much fun and so much colour.  This will hopefully play a large part of the zine and we intend the front cover to be made out of tie dyed fabric (which I have already cut to size and dyed a variety of different styles).

Here are some step by step photo's (they still need to be edited) and there will be further final photographs.

Step 1 Prepare space, What you need:

Salt

Dylon Sachet Dye

Empty Bottles (preferrably squeezy)

Gloves

Elastic Bands // String

Empty Basin

Fabric

Soak Fabric then spin in machine til just damp

  

Find as much white / pale coloured clothing, shoes or accessories as possible.

It gets quite addictive and you will have a lot of dye to use up as you cannot use the dye after a couple of hours once it has been mixed.

Mix the dye with 500ml of warm water

Or 250ml of warm water for half a sachet

Tie up fabric using elastic bands or string.  Try a couple of different techniques, you'd be surprised what patterns you can make, get creative!

Put fabric in empty basin and pour/squirt dye onto area's which you want to dye, try and make sure you get complete coverage for the full fabric to be dyed.

Wrap up individually in plastic bags and leave overnight to absorb and dry.

This is an example of how to tie the fabric if you wish it to have the traditional swirl.  To do this you must nip the centre of the fabric and twist it round, then tie a couple of times around.  (This is a form of resist dying as the dye finds it harder to get beneath the string/elastic).

Rinse first with cold water until the water runs clear, then untie and wash in warm soapy water.

Hang to dry and stand in awe at your fabulous patterns you have created and the vivid colours.