Inspiration Gallery: Tie Dye
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010By Twistie
via Tie-Dye Heaven
I’m coming out of the closet. I am an old-school, Earth mother, hippie at heart. No patchouli, please, though. It makes me gag.
The fact is – patchouli aside – I love all those back-to-the-garden crafts that people decided they’d created in the late sixties. One of those crafts is tie dyeing. It’s as simple as can be. Just a few basic tools and some creativity can turn boring white tablecloths into something like the Electric Kool Aid Acid wash number shown above.
Or you can do something that shows more obvious control of the medium, like this gorgeous lotus blossom motif on a marbled background:
