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Tie the fabric

First, tie your piece of clothing or home textiles in the style you want. You can use cable ties, strong string, or even clothes pegs and clamps. The fabric won’t take the dye very well (or at all) in the places where the fabric is tied. This creates light patterns on the darker dyed fabric.

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The tied area appears as a light section on the dyed fabric. The more regularly spaced these areas are, the more even the result.

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Now set up the dye bath. Dyeing is done at 60°C. Add 4 litres of boiling and 2 litres of cold water into a bowl or bucket. Then dissolve fabric dye in the water until you achieve the desired colour intensity. Find out more here.

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Now place the tied fabric in the dye bath and dye it for one hour, stirring regularly.

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You can fix the colour to ensure that your new design doesn’t fade when you wash it. To do this, pour 1 bottle of fixative for simplicol fabric dye into 8–10 litres of cold water. Leave the tied fabric in the fixative bath for 15 minutes. Untie the fabric and rinse it again until the water runs clear. You’re done!