Tie - Dye : Making Garment Process

                               Tie Dye ProcessEquipment list :- Dye(s)
- Plastic Bowl(s)
- Salt: 5tbps
- Mixing Spoon- Jug
- Water - Rubber Gloves 

To tie - Dye my T-shirt I have bought 5 different colours of Dylon fabric dye. Purple, Yellow, Blue, Green and Pink.  

I used a bowl for each different dye, I filled the bowl up with 1ltr of warm tap water. I then added 5tbps of salt to the water.
 

After adding the salt to the warm water, I used the spoon to mix to make sure that the salt had dissolved.

I then used the jug and added 250ml of warm water again before adding the sash of fabric dye. I then used the spoon again to mix to make sure all the fabric power has mixed with the water.

 

 

I mixed the pink dye first you can see that the colour is bright.

Finally I added the dye from the jug into the bowl where I would be able to dye my t-shirts.

 

 

I repeated the same process with my other dyes to create the different colours.

 

 

 

T-shirt: Techniques

To help me with tie - dying my t-shirt I used the blog post from urban outfitter :

 

 The technique I used for this t-shirt is called the spiral. I pinched the middle of the shirt and twisted to make a big swirl I then secured the t-shirt with elastic bands.

I placed my t-shirt that I was getting ready to tie- dye in the bowls just for show before dying them to show how I was going to do this.

 

The technique I used for this t-shirt is called the accordion. I folded the t-shirt in half and then made horizontal line by folding the fabric again. To secure the t-shirt and make sure I get the effect I want I used elastic bands.

This technique is not inspired from the Urban Outfitters blog post, I just used elastic bands to fasten some of the t-shirt to create circled and make sure that them patches stayed white.

How I dye the t-shirts - For some of the t-shirt I left them in the dye longer to get a more vibrant, brighter colour but with other I just dipped them in to get a more funky and cool tie - dye effect.

 You can see that the colouring is really bright and vibrant this is because I left the t-shirt in the dye for 20 minuets. To get a stronger and richer colour.

 

 

I did the tie - dying in my garden because the process is really messy, I placed my t-shirt on black bin bags to dry off after being dipped in the dyes.