After reading for some time here on the forums, and also on the wiki, I decided to get myself some dye.
I went to 2 different shops, and I got dye - but the clothes have to be dyed in a 60? water.
What kind of dye is it? It could be a warm water
fiber reactive dye, such as
Remazol dye, which can be used via the modern multi-colored direct application methods if you just add more warmth (there are lots of different ways we can suggest to do this), or it could be an
all-purpose or
direct dye which will do better at even higher temperatures and work best in a cooking pot.
If you post what the name on the package is, we might be able to tell from that, or we might need to know what any ingredients or warning messages say, plus the instructions, to provide clues as to exactly what you have there.
So how do I do it? Do I just put the whole shirt into colored water, and how to prevent from being colored completely? Before trying real colors, I sprayed one of my shirts. It was like a test if I can make folds. The spiral didn't come out exactly the way I wanted, but the chaos looks ok.
Old-fashioned traditional tie-dye involves tying the fabric and then immersing it for some time in a hot dyebath. For multiple colors using the original technique, you remove the fabric from the dyebath, rinse it out, untie it, then retie it another way and immerse it in a dyebath of a different color. There are many different beautiful effects possible, which you can see by looking for pictures of shibori or bandhani.
It is possible to do multicolor tie-dye with an immersion bath, but it's a laborious process. See these instructions:
How can I tie dye with all-purpose dye? Alternatively, you can squirt your highly concentrated dye solutions directly onto the fabric just as though you were using a cool-water fiber reactive dye, then wrap the
wet fabric up in plastic wrap, and steam it for half an hour using the same method you would use to steam vegetables. Be sure to carefully wrap any pale-colored sections of the garment in plastic in such as way that they are not directly contacted by a darker region of the wet dyed fabric during the steaming process. If you are using a warm water fiber reactive dye, you will need to include soda ash or another ph-increasing chemical for this step, but not if you are using all-purpose or direct dye. If you are using all-purpose or direct dye, you will then want to apply a commerical
cationic dye fixative to improve the washfastness of your dye, but this is not necessary with fiber reactive dye.
Paula
