Tie dyeing is a fun and easy way to update dark clothes, especially for darker colors that don’t always take dye well. To create unique designs on shirts, dresses, and hoodies, follow these step-by-step instructions.
Prepare your shirt by folding the desired pattern, mixing your bleach solution and neutralizer, applying the bleach mixture, allowing the bleach to work its magic, rinsing and washing the shirt, and adding optional details and embellishments.
Watch a DIY denim dye tutorial on YouTube or follow Rob Younkers’ step-by-step instructions to tie dye jeans with bleach.
Learn how to use bleach to make different tie dye patterns on colored clothes, including spiral tie dye. Follow the step-by-step instructions to create unique designs on shirts, dresses, and hoodies.
Use household bleach to tie dye, as it is relatively simple and can be done with proper safety precautions and expert guidance.
Create tight little bunches of fabric using rubber bands to secure them. The tighter the fabric, the less likely bleach will be to expand into the fabric.
Mix a 50bleach/50water solution and apply it to your fabric, letting it sit until it is your desired lightness (20 minutes). If using the bucket method, submerge your folded garment into the bleach solution and watch the bleach tie-dye results almost immediately.
In summary, tie dyeing is a fun and easy way to update dark clothes, but it may not always be the best option for darker colors.
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Try this method, it comes out pretty cool: Wet your shirts, then put them in spin dry for a few minutes till they’re fairly dry. Then, scrunch a shirt into a ball, wrap it with string or rubber bands pretty tight, then with a glove on, submerge it in a bucket with 1 gallon of water and 1 gallon of bleach, for 60 seconds, then rinse it under water for a minute, then put in another bucket with a 1 part hydrogen peroxide, to 8 parts water mix for 10-15 minutes, this deactivates the bleach. Then take the rubber bands off, and wash in plain water.
Was just about to bleach tie dye some shirts I thrifted and had never seen your articles before…WOW. Your editing is superb, you communicated what you were doing in a clear and concise way, and you kept the article interesting! Fantastic article and I’m looking forward to checking out more of your content!
Love the new transitions, openings and everything. Loved the old ones, but the new ones are very well done. Always a treat to watch your articles. For the bleaching, I haven’t done it for a loooong time, but for anything that is dark and you want to get rid of the orange tone, apparently using heat can help while it’s bleaching. Maybe a hairdryer? Again, haven’t done it in awhile, I don’t remember the process we used to do in school. Patiently awaiting your next article! <3
hi I just found you and binged about 20 articles and wow….the amount of work into these articles is insane. You are one of the most creative people I’ve ever watched. Every little detail in these articles is impressive…the little voice edit inserts for comedic relief, the funky intros, the multiple shot angles for the hydrodipping, the projects themselves (some of them must take an insane amount of time) and the variety of things you do. I also love that you show your trials and failures. Can’t wait to hit my craft room HARD this weekend. I’m inspired.
Dude, these are very sick techniques and I love your interstitial animations! As a studio artist and someone who’s worked with older studio artists who didn’t practice better habits though, consider wearing gloves (and a mask when relevant). Your skin is an organ and hands are like sponges. Chemicals that get into that layer can end up in the blood stream, in the brain, etc. Take care of yourself! Having said that, it’s good you talk about safety! Rad work!
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 I am in TOTAL SHOCK!! I had never done this before and after perusal your article I took several tshirts I bought at a thrift store and gave it a try….. OMG!!!! THEY TURNED OUT SO FREAKING COOL!!!! A specially the triangle one MUCHO THANKS for showing that fold!!! I wish I could send you pictures of them. SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR TUTORIAL!!!
I wonder how difficult it would be to do the triangle one with equilateral triangles, so that the pattern comes out hexagonal rather than square. Or doing the same but with a scalene triangle to get rhombi instead of squares. I’d also be curious to see a combination of dye patterns. Do one pattern, dye it, then do an alternate pattern, then dye it with different colors. I think the faux-stonewash and bunching up the shirt could create a good combination. Or spiral with the triangle.
You probably know this, but for ppl that don’t you should always tie dye ur shirts BEFORE screen printing or doing heat transfers etc. I know some artists do this specifically to get the “worn” look tho. I’m personally not a fan. Nothing irritates me more than buying a shirt online that shows an excellent graphic and arrives looking like it’s been washed 500x. Lol😂if I wanted that version I would just walk to my closet thx. 😂 Glad to see you do the shibori. I have not done it in over a decade and after perusal ur article I think I might. I’m a quilter. My big puppy just went through heat and just destroyed the bottom 1/4 of a white 100% king size sheet. Nesting. lol. About to make some lemonade outta my lemons. lol. And either some quilting fabric or a nightgown. Thx for the article. I’ve some bleach dyes, but I liked seeing ur article. And yes dyes can cause a massive and very severe allergic reaction. I am in fact very allergic as in I have to have a lot of meds made by a compounding pharmacy so no dyes are in them. I wear protective gear. Been allergic since I was a kid. Btw- idk if they still do, but years ago formaldehyde was used as sizing in clothes which is why they tell you to always wash them first. The sizing/starch allows the pattern maker to cut out the patterns easier and the seamstress to see them easier. My mom made most of my clothes as a kid due to my severe allergies. Please wear gloves and a mask and work in a well ventilated area. At the very least put a fan in your window backwards to suck,out the fumes.
When working with bleach, resin, and other products wear GLOVES AND A MASK!! You are literally breathing in these chemicals and absorbing them so your body will store them in your fat for years to come or you can get really sick if you keep doing it. This homie never mentions safety and THAT’S IMPORTANT AF!!
I was bleaching my shoes one day, just wiping them clean with bleach to get them white again, while wearing my FAVORITE black Adidas hoodie and….yeah. I ruined my hoodie! It’s just a few spots but I thought maybe I could try adding “spots” of bleach to it to fix it? I haven’t tried it yet or decided on it yet, but this article DEFINITELY helps!!!!
I like that Shmoxd used hydrogen peroxide to neutralize the bleach after, and the fact that he added toner/other colors to cancel out the orange tones. A tip I learned from the great Jenna Marbles bleach dye article: if you really want the bleach to do its thing on the fabric, put your clothes out in the sun while they’re wet, to dry them in the clothing bundles. I think in the mid section of the Venn Diagram that is both of these websites’ version of this project, is a SUPER dope set of results.
Ok, I have questions. First, if I’m ombré dying jeans pink, purple and teal, do I have to bleach the jeans? They are a light stone wash but obviously they are still blue. I know if I don’t want my pink to turn gray I have to bleach it. So would it be better if I just bleach the whole pair of jeans or just where I want the pink?
More than ten years ago i wanted to do tie dye but i have been disappointed by that Rit dye. I remembered having a small bleach splash on my shirt and thought ” Bleach! I can do it with bleach on colored shirts and the shirt wont bleed all over the rest of my clothes”. So that is when i started doing bleach tie dye. Interesting how already colored shirts can bleach out to various colors depending on the shirt and the dye used on it originally. I sometimes make stencils by cutting a design out of a paper bag, laying it on a dry shirt and spraying a fine mist of bleach on it. Back in the 1960’s a friend showed me how to do simple tie dye and i started doing all kinds of things with it. Hellnof a lot of fun. Then i went on a school trip to Germany and the german lady we were staying eith took me to the store one day and i found a unusual halter top (i have never seen one of the same design since then) but it was a plain light blue. I mentioned it would be great to have some cloth dye to fix it up and she found some for me. It eas not Rit in many ways. Easier to use, no boiling, and it stayed in the cloth and did not run all over my other clothes. Almost 10 years later the dye was still unfaded but the top was starting to be worn out. The dye outlasted the top. I wish wr had that dye here in the US.
I had to skip ahead to the end to see if I can put color over bleach stains and this was very helpful. I accidentally bleach stained a tank-top I have so I’m just going to go ahead and get a tie-dye kit again and put bleach around it and then once it’s done I’m going to put color into it so it’ll be totally different and still kind of nice looking. Thank you very much
lol meanwhile me who has just been rinsing in cold water for years to stop the bleaching process XD dye wont hurt ya lol it will come off in a few days :3 Reverse tie dye you need to use hot water with those dyes and salt mixed in helps the colors soak better.Also use more dye you did not use enough pigment 😀
thank you for reminding me about the hydrogen peroxide … I’m rewatching this article because I’m about to unleash 40 preschoolers on some shirts with dye … I’m going to take care of the bleach part first and then I’m going to let them reverse dye the bleached sections. Trying to figure out how to get a train logo in the middle of the shirt and then a crumble style on the rest of the shirt area…
I might give this a shot, but with a handmade cape with a thicker 100% cotton fabric and choose between the shibori triangle one or the mineral wash. The mineral wash one looks pretty damn cool, reminds me of either a galaxy or spiderwebs (which if I do this I may-or-may-not embroider either stars or spiders, who knows)