Marbling In Tie Dye

If you want your shirt to have a light design with some white still visible use your dye sparingly.

Marbling in tie dye.

Soda ash is a dye fixer that i highly recommend. Swirl the drops with a stick. Total project cost 16. Slowly lift the fabric from the pan.

Untie the shirt and add it to the sudsy water allowing it to wash the entire cycle. Soak your clothes for 30 minutes in soda ash water wearing gloves stir in 1 cup soda ash per 1 gallon of water. Let the pillow sit on the pan for one to two minutes. Mix in 1 4 cup of salt.

Do not soak the entire shirt with dye. Scrape off excess foam. Do this technique on a phone case. Place fabric gently on the pan.

Drop in your tied shirt. Using gloves hold it under the surface until the air leaks out and will sit on the bottom of your dyeing vat unattended. Drip dye colors all over. Working quickly so your polish doesn t dry place a plastic bag on top of your nail and using your finger gently tap and smoosh it until the colors blend.

Apply light pressure to smooth. Jul 26 2015 explore lee coren s board tie dye and marbling followed by 1331 people on pinterest. Marbling is the process of floating fabric paints on the surface of a thick cellulose solution called size somewhat like oil on water. Using soda ash water will help your dye to bind well with the fabric for high quality results.

It is that easy. Once you remove the plastic you ll have. Then you capture your design by laying a treated piece of fabric or paper down on top of the paint to transfer the swirls to the fabric. Use 1 2 cup of liquid dye for every 2 gallons of water.

The floating paints are swirled into patterns. See more ideas about how to dye fabric tie dye indigo shibori. Tie dye marble basics the key to achieving a colourful and intriguing design when using a marble tie dye technique lies in the saturation of the dye. Non ionic detergents are a less reactive cleansing agent used in the tie dying process to help remove any excess dye.

Once full add your dye of choice.