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Re-dye your hoodie
How to instructions
- 1 First, wash your hoodie to get rid of any residues. The dye works best on white or pale fabrics.
- 2 Cover your worktop in plastic sheeting.
- 3 Decide whether to dye the hoodie wet or dry. The dye spreads more if the fabric is wet, so it all depends on the effect youre going for. You can also lightly spray your garment with water as you work, so that the dye only spreads a little at a time.
- 4 Scrunch up the garment. Paint lines and dots here and there on the puckered fabric, using a wide brush. If the hoodie is damp, the dye will spread quite a bit, so leave some areas undyed if you dont want the whole garment to be coloured.
- 5 Switch dye colours if you like; re-scrunch the garment, and dot on the new colour.
- 6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 on the back of the hoodie. Then straighten out the hoodie to dry.
- 7 Once the fabric is dry, fix the dye with an iron set to cotton without steam for 5 minutes.*
- 8 Your new-look hoodie will then be safely machine washable at max. 40°C, but should be ironed inside out. Wash the hoodie separately the first few times after paint-dyeing it.
Customise your style with fabric dye! Use this liquid fabric dye to customise your clothes with a unique new look. This liquid fabric dye has a great watercolour quality, and is ideal for revamping clothes usingresist-dyeing techniques like tie-dye. So, if you happen to get a stubborn stain on a cotton jumper or top, don't throw it away - instead, upcycle it and give it a new lease of life using fabric dye!
*Alternatively, fix the dye in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes, but make sure the garment has no buttons, elastic, or heat-sensitive features. When fixing dye in the oven, it is important to make sure that the fabric does not touch the oven heating element.
Shibori resist-dyeing
How to instructions
- 1 Wash the top at least once to remove any residues in a new garment.
- 2 Cover your entire worktop in plastic sheeting, and wear rubber gloves.
- 3 Wet the top and take a large cylinder, like a straight-sided paper bin to slip inside the top.
- 4 Arrange the top around the cylinder. Take non-staining string and fasten it around the whole cylinder and top at one side. Continue wrapping the string 6-7 times. Holding the string tight, squeeze the fabric where you string-wrapped it so that the fabric puckers up in little rolls. Pull the string tight. Wrap the top for another 6-7 rounds and squeeze the fabric against the pleats you already made. Continue in the same way until you have wrapped string around the entire top.
- 5 Mix equal parts dye and water. Paint dye on the top using a wide paintbrush until all the fabric is soaked in dye. Leave the top to take up the dye for 24 hours.
- 6 Cut away the string. Take care not to cut the fabric.
- 7 Fix the dye by ironing the fabric without steam for 5 minutes.*
Give your top a whole new look using fabric dye! For this project, we used a special Japanese Shibori resist-dyeing technique, which involves placing the fabric around a cylinder and then wrapping string around it. Instead of tie-dye where you tie string or rubber bands around the fabric, here you wrap string around a cylinder and then pull the fabric out between the gaps. The result is stripey, a bit like the stripes on a tiger. The runny watercolour fabric dye works on fabrics with at least 50% cotton content (as well as silks).
*Alternatively, fix the paint in the oven at 150 °C for 5 minutes, but make sure the garment has no buttons, elastic, or heat-sensitive features. When fixing dye in the oven, it is important to make sure that the fabric does not touch the oven heating element.
Dye yarn
How to instructions
- 1 Wrap the yarn into a circle, for example around a piece of cardboard.
- 2 Soak the yarn in water and vinegar for a few hours (one cap of vinegar to 2 litres of water).
- 3 Mix the dyes according to the instructions on the back of the Dylon packages. If you want lighter colours, use lots of water, and if you want darker colours, use less water.
- 4 You can dye the yarn using different techniques depending on the results you want when knitting (see the dyeing techniques below).
- 5 When you are satisfied with the colour, let the yarn rest for about 1 hour.
- 6 Rinse the yarn in cold water and then hand-wash it with laundry detergent. The yarn will lose a lot of the colour when you wash it.
- 7 Let the yarn dry completely and then coil it up into a ball.
Do you wish you could choose the exact colour of your yarn? Then you've got to try hand-dyeing it yourself! Dyeing yarn with fabric dye for hand-washing is fun and easy. By combining different colours, you can make new ones: yellow + blue = green, pink + blue = purple, and so forth. Wear gloves when dyeing the yarn to protect your hands. Try things out as you go and see what colours you can create. You can also try dyeing the yarn with different methods, using the techniques below.
Dyeing techniques
1. Striped: Dip different parts of the yarn in different colours for striped results when knitting.
2. Variegated: Drip the dye in drops of various sizes onto the yarn for a variegated effect when knitting.
3. Dots: Drip evenly sized dots of 2-3 cm with a pipette, which will create dots when knitting.
Tie-dyed napkins
How to instructions
- 1 Cover your table with plastic sheeting and wear gloves.
- 2 Launder the cotton napkins before you begin.
- 3 Moisten the cotton napkins.
- 4 Shape each napkin into a sausage by scrunching it together along one side. Wrap with rubber bands at about 5 cm intervals.
- 5 Drip paint on the napkins with a pipette and squeeze the fabric so that the paint spreads throughout the bundle.
- 6 Leave the paint on the napkins for about 5-20 minutes, and then rinse. Allow to dry.
- 7 Fix the paint in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes. You can also iron on the cotton setting for 5 minutes from the back.
- 8 Iron the napkins to get rid of any wrinkles and fold twice. Roll up the cutlery in the napkins and tie with a beautiful piece of twine. Then decorate with a twine tassel.
Lay the table for a party with beautiful watercolour napkins! Tie-dying will give your napkins the lovely look of a watercolour - a gorgeous detail at a confirmation, wedding or another celebration. The longer you let the fabric soak, the more intense the colour will be. The colour will be most vibrant if you don't rinse the fabric at all. Roll up cutlery in the napkins and tie with a piece of twine. Decorate the knot with a tassel. Tie-dyed napkins are washable at 40°C. Wash separately the first couple of times.
Give your T-shirt a second chance with fabric paint
How to instructions
- 1 Start by spraying water on the T-shirt to moisten it.
- 2 Spread watercolour textile paint with a broad, flat brush and add as many colours as you like. (Try leaving some space between the colours, to give them space to flow outwards).
- 3 Rinse off excess paint with water. Remember: the sooner you rinse out the paint, the lighter the hue will be.
- 4 Fix the paint in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes. (Make sure the fabric does not touch the heating element and that it has no plastic buttons).
- 5 Tape the stencil where you want your pattern to be and roll on Palett fabric paint in any colour. Use the paint sparingly, otherwise it may seep under the stencil.
- 6 Fix the design according to the fabric paint instructions.
Give old T-shirts a new lease of life with fabric paint and resist-dyeing! This fabric paint makes it easy to give your old garments the lovely look of a watercolour painting. Boldly experiment with the paint by spreading, spattering and dotting it on, and by crinkling up the garment. When you are pleased with the design, fix the paint in the oven. Then make cool patterns with stencils. The only limit is your imagination!
Transform clothes using fabric dye
How to instructions
- 1 Protect your worktop with plastic sheeting and wear gloves.
- 2 Use washed white cotton trousers. Moisten the fabric using a spray bottle or the like.
- 3 Shake the bottle and drip dye here and there using a pipette for example.
- 4 Leave some white patches untreated in between the pink splotches and spray on more water to disperse the dye.
- 5 For a pastel effect: Leave the trousers for 1 hour, rinse and leave to dry.
- 6 For intense colour: Leave the trousers to soak up dye for at least 1 hour and then hang up to air dry.
- 7 Fix the dye by ironing on the cotton setting (without steam) for 5 min. Alternatively, fix the dye in the oven at 150 °C for 5 min, but make sure that heat-sensitive features like plastic buttons and the fabric itself are not touching the ovens heating elements.
Give old clothes a new lease of life using fabric dye and the art of dye-resist! This runny fabric dye is suitable for use on white and pale-coloured cotton garments. The dye has a great watercolour quality, making it perfect for recolouring clothes using tie-dye. For a stubborn stain on a pair of trousers or a top, don't discard them, but upcycle and transform them using tie-dye! We used a bright pink dye, but you can adjust the shade just the way you want it. Dyed clothes are washable at 40 °C. Wash separately the first couple of times.
Dye fabric with the Japanese shibori technique
How to instructions
- 1 Use washed and ironed fabric. Moisten the fabric with a spray bottle or something similar.
- 2 Fold the fabric accordion-style. Smooth it well and make the creases as sharp as possible.
- 3 Now fold the folded fabric strip like an accordion again, but the other way. Smooth the fabric and make the sharpest, most precise folds possible, until you have a folded square fabric bundle.
- 4 Squeeze the fabric bundle together between two pieces of wood, with a little bit of fabric sticking out on the sides. Use a sturdy clip or screw clamp to squeeze the bundle together as tightly as possible.
- 5 Drip fabric dye on the edges of the fabric with a pipette. Wear gloves and squeeze the fabric with your hands to help distribute the paint.
- 6 For pastel results: unfold the fabric and rinse it almost immediately after applying the dye. Hang up to dry.
- 7 For a darker colour and more distinct pattern: unfold the fabric after a few minutes and hang to dry.
- 8 Fix the dye by ironing on the cotton setting (without steam) for 5 minutes or by heating in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes. Make sure the fabric is not touching the ovens heating elements.
The Japanese shibori dyeing technique allows you to create beautiful resist-dye patterns by folding fabric instead of tying it with string. Japanese resist dyeing requires a bit more precision, but thin watercolour fabric dye makes it easy to achieve the shibori effect. Dye ordinary white cotton fabric or old sheets. Then you can make beautiful cushion covers, bags, quilts and other interior decor details with shibori patterns. You can also try dyeing kitchen towels to make a classic checked towel with a fresh twist.
Paint pixel-art portraits using fabric dye
How to instructions
- 1 Use a washed, dry and uncreased T-shirt. Stuff a piece of card or the like inside the T-shirt, to prevent dye seeping through to the back.
- 2 Use square sponges for printing the motif. Pour some dye onto a palette or other flat surface. Soak the end of the sponge in the dye so it absorbs the dye evenly.
- 3 Start by measuring the T-shirt to determine the centre and the distance from the neck opening to the motif. Mark the centre of the motif with your first print.
- 4 Let the motif spread out from the centre outwards; this makes it easier to centre on the T-shirt. Make the motif using square prints spaced slightly apart.
- 5 Allow the dye to dry completely. Then fix the design using an iron on the garment (turned inside out) for 3 to 5 minutes on the irons cotton setting. After 24 hours, your garment will be machine-washable at 40 °C.
Make a Europop top featuring a portrait of yourself or someone special in pixelated Eurovision song-contest style. Sketch out your design first or just pixel free-hand. To make the neat pixel squares, stamp on dye using squared foam rubber sponges, either ready-cut or cut free hand. Remember to choose a palette of colours to match however dark or light your top is. We used fabric dye for dark fabrics for our T-shirt.
Make a charming garden lantern
How to instructions
- 1 Make a lantern out of reused old sheets or other cotton fabric.
- 2 Paint the fabric with fabric paint. First, protect your work surface with plastic and moisten the fabric.
- 3 Brush the fabric paint here and there onto the fabric; feel free to combine two different colours and leave some white space in between. Spray with water, scrunch up the fabric and then rinse out some of the paint in a tub. Now place the fabric on a dry plastic surface to dry. (Remember that you will need to fix the paint if you want to be able to wash the fabric. This is done in an oven set to 150°C for 5 minutes.)
- 4 Tie one small circular weaving loom and one large one together, leaving some space between the two, to make a frame for the lantern. Use nylon thread so that the lantern appears to be floating.
- 5 Tear long strips of fabric and glue them to the top weaving loom, folding the strips around the inside of the edge. Glue the strips in place, making sure to overlap them.
- 6 Tie the strips together under the lower loom and voila, your lantern is complete! Now simply hang it up in the garden, on the balcony or out on the patio.
Make a lovely lantern for decoration at your garden party! Best of all: you will have a use for old, worn-out sheets or other fabric. The thin, fluid paint produces a beautiful watercolour-like look and works best on cotton fabric. Spray with water and rinse the fabric a bit to create soft, subdued pastel shades. If you want a light source in your lantern as the evening begins to darken, use a battery-operated LED bulb for outdoor use.
Paint fabric bags with fabric paint
How to instructions
- 1 Protect the table with plastic and wear gloves.
- 2 How to tie-dye fabric:
- 3 Moisten the entire fabric bag.
- 4 Tie knots on either side of the bag with cotton string. The firmer your knots, the more white will appear in the pattern.
- 5 Use a pipette to dot various colours onto the fabric. Squeeze the knots to help the colour absorb thoroughly.
- 6 Give the paint an hour to absorb before you cut off the strings. Let the bag dry.
- 7 Fix the paint with an iron set to cotton for 5 minutes (without steam) or in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes. Make sure the bag does not touch the oven heating element.
- 8 Wash the bag separately the first few times.
Transform fabric bags into your own personalised shopping bags! These thin fabric paints produce the wonderful look of watercolours and are perfect for tie-dye and techniques in which the colours flow together. Tie-dye involves tying knots around the fabric before dyeing it. You can also choose to paint the bag with a foam rubber brush. Colours that flow together: Start by painting the bottom portion of the bag with the darkest colour. Spray with water and see how the colour runs. Leave some white in between, apply the next colour and spray with water. The paint will move upwards, so wait before adding more. Alternate colours and repeat until you are satisfied. Let the colour seep to the back, or paint the back the same way as the front. Let the fabric dry and then fix the paint.
Paint napkins with fabric paint
How to instructions
- 1 Cover the entire work surface with plastic.
- 2 Soak an old white sheet or a piece of white cotton fabric in water. Squeeze out the fabric.
- 3 Apply paint here and there with a brush, leaving white areas in between. Spray the fabric with water and crumple it up, disseminating the fabric paint across the entire surface.
- 4 Rinse out the excess paint in a tub of water. Now lay out the fabric to dry. (Remember: the sooner you rinse out the paint, the lighter the hue will be.)
- 5 Fix the paint in the oven at 150°C for 5 minutes, or fix the paint with an iron set to cotton without steam for 5 minutes.
- 6 Use pinking shears to cut the fabric into appropriately sized squares for use as napkins.
Lay the table for a celebration with your own hand-painted cloth napkins! With this fabric paint, you can reuse old sheets or other scraps to make napkins with a beautiful watercolour look. Shape the napkins into cones and tie with a piece of hemp twine. Write guests' names on labels and attach them to the twine. If you like, decorate each napkin with a few dried flowers.