Marbling Tie Dye Technique

Marbling tray long enough to hold stretched fabric 1 2 inch round wooden dowels for helping hands toolstools t pins or sturdy straight pins for helping hands tool long nails for making marbling rakes and combs drill or glue gun wire whisk for mixing sizing plastic squeeze bottles like the ones used for hair dye.

Marbling tie dye technique.

For this tie dye technique choose various places to wrap and bind a marble snugly in your fabric using rubber bands. The floating paints are swirled into patterns. Then you capture your design by laying a treated piece of fabric or paper down on top of the paint to transfer the swirls to the fabric. Learn how easy it is to create incredible marble designs with just some shaving cream and rit all purpose dye.

Then use a squeeze bottle full of the fabric dye to drench the surface of the t shirt. I was browsing pinterest one day and came across instructions on how to dye paper to create a marbled effect. When one side is completely covered flip the shirt over gently and cover the other side with the remaining dye. You can find it here.

The paper looked gorgeous and i was curious to see whether the same technique could be applied to fabric. Wide opening is best. Traditionally one bottle is used in the marbling technique but more colors can be introduced if desired. Marbling is the process of floating fabric paints on the surface of a thick cellulose solution called size somewhat like oil on water.