[starknaked]

HELP!!

So i'm a small business owner selling hand dyed t-shirts. I am desperately looking for a way to dye areas of my t-shirts / sweaters in BLOCK COLOURS. without the colours bleeding into one another. For example, one sleeve one colour, another sleeve another colour, and the central area a third colour. I have tried tulip spray dye, the problem is because the t-shirt must be damp when the spray is applied, it bleeds, even if i masking tape areas out in the hope of this stopping the dye spreading. I have also tried fabric paints. but again this bleeds, and the cost is through the roof with such small pots of fabric dye one offer.

Another idea i had is to possibly use an airbrush, however i have never used this technique. Does anybody have any advice of airbrushing block colours, is this possible?

Does anybody know of another way i could do this?

ANY IDEAS OR ADVICE WOULD BE GREAT

Thanks

 

[linapparel]

will suggest you to buy the color fabrics that you need and cut & sew

 

[joeshaul]

My impressions when I read the thread was "I think I'd probably be more interested in cut and sewing at that point and just buying the fabric" as well.

Granted I do neither dying or cut&sew, the latter seems to becoming more and more popular when it comes to larger scale sublimation and the like, so it definitely would be something worth looking into in my opinion, and probably a good service to offer and also differentiate yourself from other printers in the area if you're willing to learn it.

 

[NoXid]

Batik is a process where you use wax as a resist so that only the unwaxed portion of the fabric is dyed.
Batik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[starknaked]

thank you so much, i hadn't thought of batik!! i've just found the perfect resist!

thanks to the other replies also