Things you will need before start :
- A white or very light-colored shirt made of 100% cotton
- Latex gloves
- Dyes (I prefer fiber reactive dyes, but you could also use Rit dye or a similar product. You could also purchase a tie dye kit.)
- Squirt Bottles
- A bucket
- A Drop Cloth to protect your work area
- Rubber Bands
If you are using fiber reactive dyes, you will also need the following supplies:
- Dust mask or respirator to wear while mixing dye powders
- Soda ash. (Mix up soda ash solution according to the instructions included with your dyes, and soak your shirt in the solution ahead of time, before following the rest of the instructions in this guide.)
- Synthropol detergent to remove Excess dye or for washing your dyed shirt
How To Create and Tie Dye the Spiral
Before you start, put on old clothes that can get stained. If you have long hair, tie it back out of the way. Put on your gloves.
Place the shirt on a flat surface, and lay it as flat as possible. Determine the point from which you want the spiral to originate; usually it will be in the center of the shirt or at a point slightly higher than center, but the choice is yours.
After you’ve decided the point of origin, pinch the fabric at that point between your thumb and forefingers and slowly twist the fabric in the clockwise direction until all of it has been turned. Manipulate the twisted fabric into a tight bundle, maintaining a neat spiral as much as possible. Then secure the bundle with rubber bands; use the rubber bands to form 6 or more pie-shaped wedges as shown in the photo below.
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