Tie dying turns a white shirt into a bright spiral.To experiment with the process, use bottles of dye and choose white cotton fabric.It's similar to dying short-sleeve shirts, but it requires a lot of care during the wrapping process if you want to create a specific pattern.
Step 1: You can buy bottles of dye at your fabric store.
You can apply bottles more precisely to sections of the shirt than you can with mixed dye.If you want a rainbow tie-dye shirt, look for a kit that contains all the shirts you need.
Step 2: If you need soda ash to fix the dye or if it can be used without soaking, read your instructions.
Purchase soda ash or washing soda that is made of sodium carbonate.Purchase rubber bands.
Step 3: You can place a plastic drop cloth on the table.
The table will be protected, but the t-shirt can be wrapped more easily.You can transport your shirt to the laundry room with a plastic bag and bucket nearby.
Step 4: While the shirt is dry, practice wrapping it.
You can repeat it with a shirt soaked in soda ash and water.
Step 5: Put the shirt on the cloth.
The long sleeves should be moved next to the body of the shirt.If you want them to form a pattern with the rest of the shirt, try to keep them close.If you want a different pattern on the sleeves, keep them separate.
Step 6: There is an imaginary line between the two armpits in the center of the shirt.
The shirt is in the center of the chest.
Step 7: The shirt needs to be changed.
The spiral will start with the shirt.You can continue twisting the shirt by using your other hand.
Step 8: Before you finish your spiral, feather the shirt.
Extra lines, or folds, in the shirt between each turn is what this means.
Step 9: The long sleeves should travel along the length of the body as you make a spiral.
Step 10: When you have made a tight spiral that is in the shape of a circle, stop.
Open rubber bands with your hands.When they are tight on opposite ends, slide them under and over the circle.Pick the shirt bundle up, since it can change the shape you have created.The rubber bands should be slid across the cloth.
Step 11: Put rubber bands on the circle to keep it secure.
Do diagonal lines.It will look like it has several pizza slices.
Step 12: A shirt soaked in a mixture of soda ash and water should be repeated.
Step 13: You should put on food preparation gloves before handling the dye.
Step 14: You can tip the first bottle.
Don't create excess dye on your drop cloth if you apply just enough dye to soak the fabric in a pie slice-section.Less dye is used when in doubt.
Step 15: Follow the colors of the rainbow.
You can use alternate colors to make a spiral.Continue until you have dyed all the pie sections.
Step 16: Put the shirt on its backside.
The process of applying bottle dye to each section is repeated.Match the right color from the front to the back.
Step 17: Put the shirt in the bag.
Allow it to sit according to the instructions.
Step 18: Take the shirt out of the water after it has sat for a while.
The rubber bands should be removed.
Step 19: The shirt should be washed in the washing machine.
Don't use soap.
Step 20: It should be placed in the dryer on medium heat.
It will allow the dye to be set further.Your shirt is ready to be washed.