Marble Tie Dye

For this tie dye technique choose various places to wrap and bind a marble snugly in your fabric using rubber bands.

Marble tie dye.

Then use a squeeze bottle full of the fabric dye to drench the surface of the t shirt. Accordingly you can only marble dye natural fabrics such as cotton linen wool silk and ramie and also rayon and nylon. 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. You may have seen it as a psychedelic swirl a painterly brushstroke or simply a marbled print regardless of its moniker the trend boasts a few subtle differences from tie dyes.

I ve done a lot of tie dye with procion and launder my t shirts with. Thus it might be more difficult to get the level of scrunching necessary for the marble tie dye effect if the table is lined from the beginning. Marble dying a pair of shoes is done much the same way as a piece of fabric. Or stain the rest of your laundry.

I tried this method a few times on scrap fabric and then dove head first into reproducing it on these white canvas shoes. Though it does needs a bit of tweaking to deal with the shape of the shoe. Step 5 make sure hands are protected with latex gloves before handling the dye. The marble tie dye technique requires a lot of a one common household item shaving cream.

The rit dye i used said to wash and apply the dye when the fabric is wet. Lang tax supplies needed item name instructions. Cover work area with plastic table cover and have paper towels handy to protect against any possible spills. These shoes were my first try with this technique on a shoe so it really is that easy.