THE FESTIVAL SEASON CAN COME

The summer festival season is just around the corner and what goes better with festivals than colourful tie-dye looks? In this article, we’ll show you how to create a cool swirl with the tie-dye technique – and it’s really easy to do. Our simplicol expert product range offers you endless possibilities for colour combinations and invites you to experiment. With such a colourful one-off, you can make the dance floor unsafe!

Preparation

Materials required

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Apple green

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Marine blue

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Lavender lilac

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Strawberry-Cream

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Sage Green

Let's go!

For the swirl pattern, grab the middle of the T-shirt with two fingers and twist in one direction until the entire fabric has been grabbed. Then secure this packet with several elastic bands so that it is tied tightly together.

One dosing bottle is required per simplicol Textile dye expert. Fill the bottles about 2/3 full with water at 60 degrees and dissolve about half of the textile dye granules in it, depending on the size of the bottle. If necessary, a funnel can also be used to pour in the textile dye. Close the bottle caps tightly and shake the bottles carefully so that the textile dye dissolves well.

Place the T-shirts one after the other on the draining grid over a tray and now use the dosing bottles to pour paint over the opposite sixths of each shirt. Turn the T-shirt over and also pour paint over the back, set aside and continue with the next T-shirt. Then leave the paint to work for an hour.

Mix the color fixer with 8 liters of cold water and soak the still tied T-shirts in it for 15 minutes, moving them repeatedly. Then remove the fabric and rinse with clear water. Wring out and now the elastic can be loosened.

Rock it!