You can use traditional tie dye techniques like the spiral design or shibori techniques like itajime.
Marbled tie dye techniques.
If you want your shirt to have a light design with some white still visible use your dye sparingly.
Repeat with complementary colors.
Place fabric gently on the pan.
The marble effect is obtained by scrunching the fabric creating the tightly rippled dying surface that produces the pattern.
I tried this method a few times on scrap fabric and then dove head first into reproducing it on these white canvas shoes.
There are lots of different folding and tying techniques that you can use for bleach dying.
Do not soak the entire shirt with dye.
Scrape off excess foam.
Each method will give you a different pattern or design on your finished item.
Step 1 lay the t shirt out on a non porous surface like a utility table with a stainless steel or plastic table top.
Wearing rubber gloves mix four tablespoons of rit all purpose liquid dye with one cup of very hot water.
Drip dye colors all over.
To get the patterns.
Smooth with your hands or a spatula.
Swirl the drops with a stick.
The key to achieving a colourful and intriguing design when using a marble tie dye technique lies in the saturation of the dye.
I didn t know it would work with a shaving cream base.
Leave it at that for a rather simple circle or for a more vibrant pattern like shown above wrap another rubber band binding just fabric this time a little ways below the marble.
These shoes were my first try with this technique on a shoe so it really is that easy.
The marble tie dye technique requires a lot of a one common household item shaving cream.
For this tie dye technique choose various places to wrap and bind a marble snugly in your fabric using rubber bands.
Pour solution in a small squeeze bottle.
Use rit colorstay dye fixative after dyeing and before washing to enhance the color increase color retention and prevent dye from bleeding in to white areas.
Place fabric gently on the pan.
Slowly lift the fabric from the pan.
Apply light pressure to smooth.
Let the pillow sit on the pan for one to two minutes.