Paper Quilt of Practice" – Reflective Ending Activity

Acrylic Tie Dye

Acrylic Tie Dye

 Aim: 

  • To Tie Dye fabric

Objective: 

  • To use acrylic paint with textile medium
  • To use squeezey bottles to achieve the tie dye effect with small amounts of dye
  • To create a tie dye effect

Materials:

  • Old white pillow case or white T-shirt
  • Use either Acrilic paint various colours with textile medium in squeezey plastic bottles
  • Twine to tie the fabric together
  • Clean squeezey bottles, ketchup bottles for example
  • A large container
  • Old newspaper to dry finished fabric

Instructions:

  1.  Fill the squeezey containers with water 
  2. Add the acrylic colours with textile medium to the bottles: both available from Amazon.co.uk
  3. Close lid and shake well ready for use
  4. Wet the pillow case with water and squeeze until it is slightly damp
  5. Lay out the pillow case and fold up the centre into folds.
  6. Begin to twist the centre and the folds until the entire pillow case is in a small ball shape
  7. Tie the pillow up tight with the twine or isolate small parts with elastic bands
  8. Place in the container, over a draining rack, ready for the dye (the draining rack carries away the dye from the cloth, avoiding the soaking up of mixed together dyes)
  9. Using the bottles of dye gently squeeze the liquid onto the damp pillow case at various points 
  10. Leave white areas and be careful not to add too much.
  11. Let the fabric dye soak in for 10-15 min
  12. Open the twine and lay the pillow case out on the newspaper to dry
  13. When it is dry, place in the clothes dryer to set.

Variations: 

  • Use liquid Dylon Fabric paint or liquid dyes; if used the fabric needs to be set with salt or fixative

    Acrylic

    Textile Medium


    Add water to plastic bottles

    Container

    Twine

    Pillow case

    Red and green design
    Add caption
    Yellow and black on Dry fabric
    Vest top design
    Mulicoloured
    Twisting the fabric
    Add caption

    Pillow case with colours added
    Squeezy bottles





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