Wring out the water and repeat until the water runs clear.

Tie dye hoodie techniques. These detailed instructions help you get over the pitfalls of working with a thicker material for this tie dye. For a high contrast pattern keep hoodie in dyebath for 3 to. Tie dying a hoodie is a little different that tie dyeing a regular shirt.

Now, it’s time to dye! Use plastic buckets to contain dye. Fill the cups with water and some dye salt, then mix.

Cover table wtih plastic table cover. Soda ash helps fix the fiber reactive dye to the fabric to remain bright. Just wrap the bands around your crumpled fabric enough to hold it together.

Shake the bottle well, mixing the. Pole wrapping/tying fabric over tubes. Put on your gloves, mix some dark blue and indigo dye in a squeeze bottle, since indigo is the primary color used for this technique.

Pour the packets into three separate cups by color. Bundle your crumpled shirt with rubber bands. Start by pinching a small section in the center of the shirt.

Next, measure in ¾ of soda ash for every gallon of water you put in the bucket. Though there are various patterns. In this video i show and describe the entire process that i used to make a snakeskin looking tie dye shirt.