Dye your own tie-dye
Test your colors before you spend your time, cotton and dye.
How the two sides work
Tie-dye is folded in fan folds: pleats where half of each fold sits on the table and half sticks up in the air. If the folds are an inch tall, the top half inch and the bottom half inch get dyed separately. You dye side A, flip the bundle, and dye side B. When it opens, the two sides show up as every other line of color.
The thin white lines between colors are where the dye from side A didn't soak far enough to meet the dye from side B. Use too much dye and there's no white at all, and the two sides run together. Orange on one side bleeding into blue on the other comes out brown.
The string or rubber bands just hold the folds together so they don't come apart when you flip it over.
1 · Dye side A top view
2 · Unfolded rainbow example
You've changed the bundle. Tap Unfold it to see the new design.
Like it? The real thing is folded, tied and dyed by hand.