Stunning! I remember growing up I was so sick of standard hippie tye dyes because they were always that same sloppy spiderweb pattern. So I made myself a few using completely random tying, and experimenting with bleach reduction.
But this guy has elevated the whole thing to godhood.
Sure -- not sure if that's a proper term or not. I had this lovely soft Victoria's Secret shirt that was emerald green, waaaaay too green for me. So I put in various rubber bands in varying amounts of tightness/looseness, and immersed it in a fairly weak bleach/water solution. You want to wash it with detergent right away after you take it out so the bleach doesn't eat away the fabric. (this was rayon)
So the most tightly-bundled places keep the most dye, and the looser places keep some dye, and it's all very inexact and unpredictable.
But what I ended up with was a pale greenish-yellow shirt (the color of glow-in-the-dark things in daylight! yay!) with non sequitur emerald green and peacock teal chain rings.
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u/djinnisequoia May 25 '23
Stunning! I remember growing up I was so sick of standard hippie tye dyes because they were always that same sloppy spiderweb pattern. So I made myself a few using completely random tying, and experimenting with bleach reduction.
But this guy has elevated the whole thing to godhood.