How to Do Ombre or Gradient Tie Dyeing | Tie Dyeing

Watch more How to Tie Dye videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/510697-How-to-Do-Ombre-or-Gradient-Tie-Dyeing-Tie-Dyeing I'm going to show you how to do ombre gradient tie-dye now. For that you'll just prepare a normal immersion vat. I prepared this one by mixing my dye, which I choose a blue color in water with my dye activator, which is washing soda. For the ombre you want to prepare a dye vat that is a little bit more concentrated than usual, and you'll see why in a few. I started my fabric just wet in fiber and I made these marks in the salvage of the fabric that will sort of guide me through the ombre, marking the changes from dark to medium, and from medium to light. Those are just like guidelines marks, and if you make them on the salvage you will be able to cut them. After you dyed, if you're ombreing a shirt and you don't want the marks in there, you can just put safety pins or threads or something that will allow you to identify. So I start with my fabric wet as it should be, before any dying technique, and I'm just going to start dipping it into the dye bath. First I'll go as high as my medium color, maybe a little bit above the line trying to keep a pretty straight front line, and then I'm going to start raising it and dipping it, and raising it constantly. What you're doing here, you're pretty much making gravity work for you. So keeping the fabric in a vertical position, the weight of the fabric will start pulling the dye out, making this line here that still appears pretty solid, sort of like fade through. At the same time, you always want to keep the bottom of your fabric, which is going to be your darker color, immersed into the dye solution, so the dark shades can start building. The reason why I keep pulling it up and down is to avoid building up very rigid horizontal lines. So by pulling it up from the bath and putting it into the bath, I'm just changing where the line is happening. This process is very basic and beginning way to m