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There’s something magic about the exciting possibilities in a sink full of tie-dye you’re about to rinse out. What is it going to look like?
First the rubber bands (or hair ties if you are all out!) come off.
The gather stitching gets pulled out.
The pattern is revealed.
Then finally after washing and drying you get to see the colors that are left.
Should you wish to duplicate this, we used a basic shibori stitching and gathering technique, and Procion MX Fiber Reactive Cold Water Dye from Dharma Trading.
Do you think tie-dye is ‘so over’, or do you still love it? Personally, when I get a screen printed shirt from Threadless that just isn’t a good color on me, I crumple dye it, with a close family of colors, browns & rose, or blue & dark green, for that subtle (and HARD TO STAIN) color mash, with the cool Threadless graphic on top. I don’t wear rainbows much anymore, but I still wear tie dye. 🙂 Okay, actually, I still wear tie dye rainbows, what am I saying. How about you?
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Add Yours →Hello,
searching for felt, I came to your blog and start scrolling… and scrolling… and became adicted on scrolling one inch world for about an hour :))
Must say that you are wonderful mother and a wonderful living one. Bless you!!
Let me share nice pictures that i foud searching about “hum…let me see what is holi spring fest?” suggested by one of your posts
> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/holi_2010.html
Best wishes,
Carla
Thank you so much!
Those are beautiful pictures of Holi, which is very timely, as we are celebrating it next Sunday at Stanford (they put it off a month until it is warmer, so they can have more fun, I’m not sure how devout Hindus feel about that, but it works for me!)
[I’m so sorry, this comment (of mine, yes!) got sent to the spam queue so never emailed to you. So it is two weeks old now!]
I love the way this short turned out – the stitching allows for so much more creativity than sticking with rubber bands.
Thanks, there are so many things you can do that are tie-dye-ish, but don’t involve rubber bands!