TieDye

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1 Bleach Tie-Dye and Ink Stick
2 Tie-Dye and Stenciling
3 Various Tie-Dye

Bleach Tie-Dye and Ink Stick

Tie, apply pure bleach (4% to 6% active ingredient), stop the reaction with a solution of Sodium Thiosulfate. Add Shiva Stick to some, and tada!

Golden Cloud
Rumple, bleach, Shiva paint.

Blue Lightning
Maybe a loose spiral? Accordion fold?

Bleach Swirl
Spiral, bleach

Tie-Dye and Stenciling

I tie-dye my T-Shirts, I admit it. The results are often nice, sometimes spectacular, but I don't usually think to take pictures and put them up here. Last week, though, I did something different -- tie-dye with bleach on a black shirt; plus bleach through a stencil to make patterns.

I laser-printed the pattern onto plain paper (which was too thin; use cardstock instead) and cut out the pattern with a sharp knife. I then misted bleach over the paper onto the shirt below.

After the bleach was right, I soaked the shirts in bleach-stop (Sodium Thiosulfate, from Dharma Trading Company]) to stop the reaction. After the shirts were then washed and dried, I used oil-paint sticks (by Shiva, I believe, via Dharma) on two of them, and glue-and-foil (also from Dharma) on the other three. While I will have to wait and see how these materials age with use and laundry, the immediate results are very nice:

	Red Lightning Folded in half, accordian fold, bleach, Shiva paint		Forest Clouds Spiral, light bleach, Shiva paint
	Rainbow Eye Stencil, bleach, Jones foil		Gold Eye Stencil, bleach, Jones foil
	Sauron's Red Eye Stencil, bleach, Shiva paint, Jones foil

Various Tie-Dye

I didn't do these for any particular project, just for fun. The year attributions are extremely vague, except for the 2007 shirts, which I did earlier in the year.

2007
Radial Black Fold in quarter, accordion fold, dye edges black, interior colors (?)	Diagonal Slash Accordion fold, dye top and bottom red/black, out to blue/fuscia	Powder Burn Loose spiral, not dyed in quadrants but radially? I don't remember.

2006
Radial Splash Probably pulled at center, died in sections	Cross Hatch Accordion fold	Multiple Splats Pull tufts at each center, dye red and out to colors