What is Tie Dye - a term combining several methods of staining a fabric by winding, stitching, folding or compression. Nodule staining is considered one of the most ancient methods of tissue ornamentation, it was used by masters of ancient India, China, Africa.
There are an infinite number of methods of winding, folding, wrapping fabric for Sibori, and each gives a unique result. Meanwhile, in order to obtain a certain pattern on the fabric, not only the technique is important, but also the quality of the fabric itself.
The Tie Dye process is quite simple: the fabric is dragged in the right places, and then lowered into boiling paint. Then they are taken out, cooled and unwound - strips of the original fabric (most often white) remain in place of puffs according to the given pattern, while the rest of the fabric acquires the color of paint.
The method was renamed Tie Dye in the West in the late 1960s and early 1970s thanks to the hippie movement. The most fashionable painting among the "children of flowers" was a rainbow print (sometimes depicting hemp leaf) and the symbolism of esoteric mandals. Looking enthusiastically beyond the Iron Curtain, our mothers and dads hunted for jam jeans in the Soviet Union (which could only be obtained from farce cutters), but much more often boiled jeans tied with a knot at home.
For several years in a row, we have been hearing the same news on different fashion portals: Tie Dye will be the trend this summer. This prediction no longer surprises anyone, and on gliders in magazines they continue to come up with materials about this popular way of castomizing clothes.
Everything went so far that even Nike made a special sneaker park for the summer, where both colors beat this unusual technique of coloring clothes. Interestingly, this trend is absolutely not new and it appeared a very long time ago.