Featured Artist : Tie-Dye Deb |
Hi! My name is Tie-Dye Deb. I live and tie-dye in Benicia, California. I started my tie-dye business in September of 2000. I found Dharma Trading online when I started my business, and have been purchasing from them ever since. I have a website, do parties, and sell at festivals. Please see my website www.tiedyedeb.com for more information on Tie-Dye Deb.
I use Dharma's fiber reactive procion dyes along with soda ash, urea, glauber's salt, sodium alginate, water softener and Dharma's professional textile detergent. A special thank you to Martine and Tom for their DVDs, TieDye 101 and Advanced Tie Dye Techniques: Shapes and Mandalas to help me get to the next level of tie-dyeing. Dharma also has a great variety of clothing blanks. I tie-dye t-shirts, onesies, rompers, lettuce edge and velour tops and bottoms, leggings, dresses, hoodies, socks, and the ever important undies. Dharma Trading rocks!
I love creating new tie-dye color combinations and designs. I enjoy seeing my tie-dye on someone at the grocery store or even at my son's school. It just doesn't get much better than that. I participate in art during the day at the local elementary schools. The kids get to make a tie-dye shirt all by themselves. I encourage them to wear their tie-dye shirts on Friday. I believe that every Friday is tie-dye Friday. I'm working on a plan to get the whole town of Benicia to wear tie-dye every Friday. Maybe it should be a world vision. So support Tie-Dye Friday and Color Your World. Of course, you will see me in tie-dye almost every day of the week.
Peace!
Tie-Dye Deb
Please feel free to contact me at www.tiedyedeb.com or by email at tiedyedeb@pacbell.net.
Dharma Fiber Reactive Procion Dyes
This is the #1 best dye we recommend for tie-dye, batik, dye-painting or screening, etc. on cotton, rayon, bamboo, Tencel®, linen and other natural fibers. Also for solid color dyeing and many other techniques!
Soda Ash Fixer
Soda Ash (Pure Dense Sodium Carbonate) is required to 'fix' or 'make permanent' Dharma Fiber Reactive Dyes. Available in 1, 5, 10, and 25 lb. sizes at discount prices.
Urea
Used for tie-dye and direct application dyeing with Fiber Reactive Dyes to yield deeper, brighter colors.
Sodium Alginate Thickener
The most economical thickener for Fiber Reactive Dyes and works as a thickener for other liquids as well, including all liquid Silk Dyes.
Tie-Dye 101 DVD
Advanced Tie-Dye Techniques: Shapes and Mandalas DVD