Wearing rubber gloves mix four tablespoons of rit all purpose liquid dye with one cup of very hot water.
Marbled tie dye techniques.
Repeat with complementary colors.
Swirl the drops with a stick.
There are lots of different folding and tying techniques that you can use for bleach dying.
The traditional marbling techniques for paper and fabric involve floating your paints dyes atop a pan of water or gel and then swirling combing etc.
Step 1 lay the t shirt out on a non porous surface like a utility table with a stainless steel or plastic table top.
I tried this method a few times on scrap fabric and then dove head first into reproducing it on these white canvas shoes.
These shoes were my first try with this technique on a shoe so it really is that easy.
Smooth with your hands or a spatula.
The marble tie dye technique requires a lot of a one common household item shaving cream.
Scrape off excess foam.
You can use traditional tie dye techniques like the spiral design or shibori techniques like itajime.
Pour solution in a small squeeze bottle.
To get the patterns.
Do not soak the entire shirt with dye.
Slowly lift the fabric from the pan.
For this tie dye technique choose various places to wrap and bind a marble snugly in your fabric using rubber bands.
Place fabric gently on the pan.
Each method will give you a different pattern or design on your finished item.
Drip dye colors all over.
If you want your shirt to have a light design with some white still visible use your dye sparingly.
Let the pillow sit on the pan for one to two minutes.
Use rit colorstay dye fixative after dyeing and before washing to enhance the color increase color retention and prevent dye from bleeding in to white areas.
I didn t know it would work with a shaving cream base.
Apply light pressure to smooth.
Leave it at that for a rather simple circle or for a more vibrant pattern like shown above wrap another rubber band binding just fabric this time a little ways below the marble.
Fill a baking tray with shaving cream.
Place fabric gently on the pan.