How to tie crisp lines in the geode tie dye style?

When I say that the ties have to be tight, I don’t mean that you’re actually tying knots.

What you’re actually doing is grabbing a bunch of fabric and wrapping the sinew around the fabric 4 to 5 times.

Then you pull it really tight until it starts to lock down on itself because of the wax coating. If you want the line to be thicker, you can wrap 3 more times and pull again.

It works better to wrap 3-4 times and pull, multiples times, rather than try to wrap it 8 times and get all of those wraps to cleanly tighten down.

The next trick is figuring out how to pull the sinew without hurting your hands. Usually, I just use a scrap piece of PVC pipe that I wrap the sinew around. Then I use the pipe to pull the sinew.

When applying dye, you want the liquid to be able to reach all of the tight space between the ties. It helps the lines to appear crisp and well defined, if there is enough space between the ties for the dye to fully saturate.