MrTieDye Intro Video: Learn How to Tie-Dye 

Oh that is so wonderful to hear, thank you for sharing with me and you are most welcome!! I love to help others have fun and success with this art and I feel that ANYONE can do it if you have a little bit of help and instruction... so I provide it!! ✌🏻💚🥳🙏

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You are welcome 🙏

Hey, Mr. Carl!! I have a one last simple question for me to asked you and this is totally going to be one more final straw to asked about how to folded up with max Dennison bullseye design on a tee.

Wonderful!! 💚✌🏻

You are so welcome! 🙏

You are welcome ✌🏻

You are so welcome 🙏 and yes I do LOVE this art ... and helping others have fun and success with it just makes it even more fun ... Practice and you will continue to get better ... and if you are ever doing a fold and think to yourself, hmm, I wonder what would happen if I tried this or did that... then try it out as that is how you will develop your own style peace ✌️

I will be working on more videos as I am inspired ... probably not much more on the dye painting though as that is not my specialty... I showed the basics just so people knew it could be done and how to get started ... so you may search out some other dyers who do more of the painting ... I see them now and then on FB and IG ... just ask as there are more and more people who are willing to help other with this art and just in case it helps, here are some other tie-dye channels : www.youtube.com/@MrTieDye/channels

@@MrTieDye thank you Carl you are always a great help!

Thank you ... that one is the Black Flame Rainbow and I have a few videos for it : here is one like the tee I am wearing : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7vuBAlB9tIU.html and this is one where I did larger pleats to change up the design a bit, as well as doing it on LS tees :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AyExyADqb18.html

@@MrTieDye awesome thank you

you are welcome ✌🏻

Yes, I do plan to do more videos, including LIVE streams ... BUT, I will give more warning when I do them.... the one from last week came up in the moment, it was not planned, so there was no warning ✌🏻

You are so welcome

Thank you 🙏

Yes it does... I know many people who have stress, anxiety or depression and then they start some form of art, it does not have to be tie-dye, but it can be .... my goal has been to make this art open to all who want to try it by giving out the basic and more advanced info on how I work with various tolls, chemicals and folds and ties ... if you are just starting out, here is some more info that may be of help, especially the Beginner Playlist : Hello and Welcome to the Wonderful World of Tie-Dye .... I use Procion Dyes I pre wash and pre soak the cotton tees in a Soda Ash solution, this raises the pH level of the cotton which activates the Procion Dyes (sources listed below) and causes a chemical bond to form between the cotton fibers and the Procion Dyes. (Procion Dyes work on other natural fibers as well like : Bamboo, Hemp, Linen, Rayon, and even silk, but I use a slightly different process for silk) I have a ton of videos that are sorted into many different playlists so be sure to explore … 
 I have put a bunch of videos into one Playlist to help get you started with an overview of Tie-Dye, and then how to mix the Dyes, mix or make Soda Ash, Batch the tees (let the dyes set up so the bonding can happen), and the Rinse/Wash Out Process... Also, I have many videos on the basic folds and various ways of dyeing the cotton tees or tapestries ... Have fun exploring and I wish you success on your Tie-Dye Journey, Oh and I recommend taking photos of your work so you can look back and see how far you have come as this is an art that you will need to practice, but it pays off with getting better each time you do it ..... This art can be quite addictive, you have been warned lol 😉 Here is my Beginner's Playlist : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2BzuquDrHsqxbv8LdFkaIyy3wo ✌🏻❤️🌈🥳🙏 Here is a list with some more folds to try out : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2Bzupqjuh_6wdf-wMlgGdAjVaE Plus, there are many other tie-dye artists who share their techniques so others can learn, here is a list I have compiled that were mentioned in the tie-dye pages : ru-vid.comchannels Most Dyers use Procion Dyes, so just in case you are looking for sources for those, here are the main places to buy them from in the US : CA : Dharma : www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dharma-fiber-reactive-procion-dyes.html CO : Grateful Dyes : www.grateful-dyes.com/ CO : CO Wholesale Dye Corp. : www.bulkdye.com NC : Custom Colors Inc. : www.customcoloursinc.com/ MA : Pro-Chemical and Dye : prochemicalanddye.net/ MO : Dyespin : www.dyespin.com

@Tom ... I am glad to be of help to you ... as for batch times and heat... yes heat does speed up the batch time of the Procion Dyes, I still like to leave mine for 48 hours... BUT, I have seen many people reference this chart on FB when talking about batch times for dyes : facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2806295286181484&set=gm.762371098218754&idorvanity=449743522814848 I hope this helps ✌🏻💚🙏

Wonderful, I hope you find a video that is helpful to your project and I wish you fun and success with it. 🥳✌🏻💚

Thank you and you are welcome ... as for the black lines... when I twist my spiral, I lay the front side of the tee shirt face down ... then when I add black to my spiral, I add it to the front of the tee, the side the was face down... the creases are nice and flat since they were against the table, so the black lines come out looking nicer and less splotchy ... ✌️

@@MrTieDye thankyou

I buy my 100% cotton tees wholesale from sanmar.com ... I just used my Business Name Registry to sign up with them ... here are a couple other places where you can buy tee without signing up : jiffyshirts.com & alphabroder.com as for material ... with Procion Dyes, Natural fibers are what work ... Cotton, Bamboo, Hemp, Linen and Rayon (Rayon is more delicate when wet, so take care in handing and tying it, and then I wash mine in a net bag on gentle cycle) all work great with these dyes ... even Silk will work, but it is a slightly different process... I hope to get to a video for silk soon And yes, you can dye lighter fabrics... many times I have started with lite blue, tan, pink, or grey ... sometimes they may affect the shade slightly.... like if you dye a lite blue tee and use yellow, it will look yellow, but may have a slight green cast to it

Yeah I need to make some up dated videos for the dye mixing ... after mixing them with water, I have had them around for 2-3 weeks at room temp (65-70F here in Oregon) and still had decent colors from them ... BUT< if you store them in a mini fridge, they last even longer... I have used some that were mixed 2-3 months ago and still gave decent colors IMO, the dye go bad slowly, meaning over time they just produce lighter shades of color ... so you can keep on using them, just know that the shade will be duller over time ... but one thing I do if I have a lot of dyes left over is Re-Fresh them by adding another scoop of dye and blending them again... I do this once as you can only mix so much powder into liquid before it becomes sludge ..... anyways, sometimes I will have just a couple colors that are 'old' and I will use them in conjunction with brighter colors (freshly mixed) as I like the contrast between bright colors and muted colors ... so lots of options with Procion Dyes BUT, those store bought 'One Step Kits' those have soda sh mixed in with the dyes, so as soon as you add water the dyes are active and should be used soon for best color results... when using them, I recommend getting all of your tees tied up BEFORE mixing the dye as for Soda Ash ... it does not seem to go bad... I just keep using it and when it gets low, I just make more and add it in with the rest and just one more thing in case you did not see the full list, here is my Beginner's Playlist : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2BzuquDrHsqxbv8LdFkaIyy3wo I hope this helps... have fun along your journey and ask more questions if you need help ✌🏻💚🙏🥳🌈🌀

You ARE ONE AMAZING TEACHER

I am glad you found your way to my channel... I love to help people get into this art and have fun and success with it. as for the spiral... it does take some practice to perfect it, but to start with, they way I tie mine is by pinching it with my fingers and twisting a couple times to get it started... then I hold the center and 'wrap' the rest of the tee around it... I pull out on the edges a bit to create the pleats that then get wrapped around the center point of the tee ... here is my Spiral playlist to also show many ways of dyeing the spiral once you get it tied... I try to get mine nice and tight as I wrap it up : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2BzurqzK0qzcIFldZEycD5ykyZ and I have done the Scrunch and Spider design in the Mystical Magical Series : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2BzupFrPUZZWKvIQc_A28Af0Bt Also, anytime someone says they are new to tie-dye, I put up my Beginner's Playlist as it has lots of helpful tips and tricks in it : ru-vid.com/group/PLMEtBqB2BzuquDrHsqxbv8LdFkaIyy3wo I hope this helps... if you have more questions, please start a new one rather than reply to this one as the replies do not show up n the same way for me ... also, I am on FB and IG so if you have one of those accounts, you can tag me in a photo to show me the issues you are having ✌🏻💚🙏🥳🌈

@@MrTieDye that's very helpful. Thank u 😊

I buy my Procion Mx Dyes from Dharma, they are the closest supplier to me, but I have also purchased some dye from Grateful Dyes and as well as Custom Colours ... here are links to the main places in the US to buy them from : CA : Dharma : www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dharma-fiber-reactive-procion-dyes.html CO : Grateful Dyes : www.grateful-dyes.com/ CO : CO Wholesale Dye Corp. : www.bulkdye.com NC : Custom Colors Inc. : www.customcoloursinc.com/ MA : Pro-Chemical and Dye : prochemicalanddye.net/ MO : Dyespin : www.dyespin.com and here is a link for more dyes and supplies around the world : TrueTieDye ~ Lists many Suppliers around the World : www.truetiedye.com/procion-dye-suppliers.html?fbclid=IwAR3YpPsTaG-08GMJgM5CvF-nohErDafiYREyQwRwmfIMdZLApTC00dJRAz4