Smooth with your hands or a spatula.
Marbled tie dye techniques.
The traditional marbling techniques for paper and fabric involve floating your paints dyes atop a pan of water or gel and then swirling combing etc.
Place fabric gently on the pan.
Swirl the drops with a stick.
There are lots of different folding and tying techniques that you can use for bleach dying.
The marble tie dye technique requires a lot of a one common household item shaving cream.
I tried this method a few times on scrap fabric and then dove head first into reproducing it on these white canvas shoes.
Repeat with complementary colors.
If you want your shirt to have a light design with some white still visible use your dye sparingly.
Place fabric gently on the pan.
Step 1 lay the t shirt out on a non porous surface like a utility table with a stainless steel or plastic table top.
These shoes were my first try with this technique on a shoe so it really is that easy.
Slowly lift the fabric from the pan.
Apply light pressure to smooth.
The marble effect is obtained by scrunching the fabric creating the tightly rippled dying surface that produces the pattern.
To get the patterns.
Scrape off excess foam.
Wearing rubber gloves mix four tablespoons of rit all purpose liquid dye with one cup of very hot water.
Fill a baking tray with shaving cream.
Pour solution in a small squeeze bottle.
Let the pillow sit on the pan for one to two minutes.
Do not soak the entire shirt with dye.
Leave it at that for a rather simple circle or for a more vibrant pattern like shown above wrap another rubber band binding just fabric this time a little ways below the marble.
Each method will give you a different pattern or design on your finished item.
You can use traditional tie dye techniques like the spiral design or shibori techniques like itajime.
I didn t know it would work with a shaving cream base.
Tie dye marble basics.
The key to achieving a colourful and intriguing design when using a marble tie dye technique lies in the saturation of the dye.