I have learned some things about tie-dying. We have done it twice now. The first time we used Jacquard brand of dye. It is a two step process, first you soak the cloth in soda ash (washing soda) dissolved in water. After that you use the dyes. As with most tie-dying, you then allow the items to sit for at least 8 hours, rinse and rinse and rinse with running water and then wash in the washing machine.
This time we used the Tulip brand that Michael's carries. It did not require the soaking in the soda ash, but as it all works better with damp material, we did wet everything prior to dying. The colors were, as you can see quite bright and vibrant after rinsing them. Unfortunately they were substantially faded by the time we got them out of the washer after washing them. That was a bit disappointing. I thought that the Jacquard brand retained the color quite a bit better than the Tulip brand.
I am thinking that next time I will try another brand I have heard about from Dharma Trading. They have so many colors I didn't even count them and they say they are the brightest 'bar none'. It was pretty fun and everybody loves tie-dye, don't they?
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