Clothing Dye

Instructions were to leave in dye for up to 15mins. so we experimented with 5, 8  and 10min intervals of clothing due to try and get a gradient colour.

Colour before putting through the washing machine

Here it looks really permanint but we knew it would look more brightly dye'd before putting through the wash. if you look closely you can see a slight gradient of colour on the blue.

Dye'ing some clothing was a decision me and matt made to break up our colour range of tshirts a bit, dip dye is also fairly cool experiment which does not take a lot of effort. We dye instructions stated that we needed to leave clothing in for up to 15mins to make a full dye so naturally we wanted to avoid this and get  bit of a light gradient on the clothes, so the change in dip dye wouldnt be too extreme. We decided to test the dyes on offprint tshirts we couldnt sell anyway so made the most of our waste clothing.

Dye colours
The blue dye we felt would work the best against white and grey and made this our main dye. The other colour due we tried was orange and grey and to say the least these were incredibly unsuccessfull and looked horrible, the orange reminded me of some kind of extreme borroca advert and the grey came out green.... but we do have a tester tshirt worthy of a chrismas present to some unlucky person.

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White & Grey Tshirts:

The white tshirts we dip dye blue came out pretty well, the ones we left in for less than 5mins barely showed much colour at all after washing so we kind of wasted a Tshirt on that as it just looked stained. But the tshirt we left in for up to 10mins gave a perfect gradient of colour not too harsh and made a great one off ready to be printed. 

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