Acrylic Tie Dye

Aim:

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

Fill the squeezey containers with water
Add the acrylic colours with textile medium to the bottles: both available from Amazon.co.uk
Close lid and shake well ready for use
Wet the pillow case with water and squeeze until it is slightly damp
Lay out the pillow case and fold up the centre into folds.
Begin to twist the centre and the folds until the entire pillow case is in a small ball shape
Tie the pillow up tight with the twine or isolate small parts with elastic bands
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)
Using the bottles of dye gently squeeze the liquid onto the damp pillow case at various points
Leave white areas and be careful not to add too much.
Let the fabric dye soak in for 10-15 min
Open the twine and lay the pillow case out on the newspaper to dry
When it is dry, place in the clothes dryer to set.