How do you get really bright color with tie dye?

I love vibrant color, and recently I have experimented with simple dye application methods that prioritized color saturation.

In that experiment, I used concentrated orange and yellow dye colors to deeply saturate a shirt with a really simple gradient design, in a plastic bin.

The bin snuggly fit around the shirt and the amount of liquid didn’t go much over the top of the shirt. I let it sit for about 24 hours. It was pre-soaked in soda ash solution before applying dye.

When I first posted about it, some people were annoyed, thinking I was trying to claim the most basic methods as my own.

What I think is actually happening, is we forget the simple basics in pursuit of more complicated and complex designs.

We are spending hours doing intricate folds and tie work, and forget that just having a really bright orange shirt can be delightful.

My return to something considered fundamental and basic is only meant to bring your attention back to an easy way to get vibrant color.

It doesn’t need to be complex or time consuming to be breathtaking. Whenever I go out in one of these bin style gradient shirts, people always comment on how nice the color is. I probably get more comments on simple bin dyes than I do on geode style shirts.