I have been meaning to try this out for a while now, but never got time to actually do it.
I have always liked this Hippy/ Boho/ Recycled style of clothes, and played with it more than once when little. The way I used to do it though was different, I used to make knots around the piece of clothing and then dip it in a mixture of water and bleach.
This time though, to achieve a better sort of result, I decided to look for tutorials, gather more info on how to get what I wanted, and I made a very interesting discovery, apparently you can also use food colorant! How weird is that?!
So, I purchased a dark green Dylon fabric hand dye, mixed it as the instructions suggest, with 250g of salt, stirred it well, got three white t-shirts that had few stains here and there, and then went out to the garden and looked around for stones and wooden sticks! :)
I used this technique I saw in a tutorial, to get a dip dye sort of effect, folding the shirt until the point where I wanted the effect to start /end, for the other two t-shirts instead, I got inspired by a tutorial I saw on Free People, next time I think I will use a blue shade <3 I am so pleased with the final result, I just want to make more! So the plan is to buy white or light colored dresses, skirts, trousers, and re-paint them <3
The raw material
Mr Green
The tools
The process
The result, I am so pleased with them
The front
To be continued :) ....
#dyeclothing
#Hippystyle
#creativity
