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Tie dye

A growing collection of tutorials, process notes, photo comparisons, and tie dye experiments.


Close up view of the utility sink faucet with an adapter holding the garden hose in place

Hose Dye

A shirt is soaking in a bin of hot dark dye water to batch and set the colors.

Hot batching

Corky Lorenz wringing out a lavender cotton shirt after soaking it in soda-ash solution for tie-dye preparation.

Prep for dye

Corky is holding a tie-dyed shirt in a utility sink rinsing out the excess tie-dye.

Rinsing Tie Dye

Corky is pouring orange dye from mason jar into a bin with a shirt being dyed.

Bold color

Corky is scrunching a shirt on top of polyester fleece, to ice dye.

Flowy

Corky is using a metal spoon to sprinkle powdered Procion dye over the top of ice that is on a cotton T-shirt for ice

Trying new colors

A shirt and artificial sinew are on a white table, with the shirt in the process of being tied.

Crisp lines

A person is holding a jar of tie-dye powder

Get dye

person holding colorful tie-dye shirt above a washing machine during first wash cycle

Will it bleed?

A shirt hanging on a white wall that is dyed in the geode tie dye style.

Geodes

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