Custom T-Shirt Printing Process With Natural Dyes

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Custom T-Shirt Printing Process With Natural Dyes
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• Natural fabric dyes can bring the best out of
  your custom t-shirt printing project.
• Clothes printed with natural dyes not only add a
  different feel to the fabric of your customized
  t-shirts but provide higher UV absorption.
• A naturally-dyed custom t-shirt can fully protect
  your skin from harmful sun rays and even look
  cooler in style.

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• Finalizing Print Designs Colors
• Start with selecting the color palette.
• Finalize the main solid colour of your t-shirt.
• Finalize a unique designing pattern.

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• 2. Selecting The Right Dye Plants
• Following factors need to be taken care of before
  you select the dye plant
• Print design complexities
• Printed areas
• Color palette
• Fabric quality
• Project budget

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• For a vibrant red color, madder root plants can
  be used to extract natural dyes.
• Avocado pits can be selected for light pink color
  prints.
• Most of these dye plants are associated with one
  primary color, which is why you need to select
  the plant relevant to the solid color finalized
  in the first stage of this process.
• You also need to take care that the dye plants
  can sustain the t-shirt printing techniques which
  require overdyeing or overnight dye baths.

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• 3. Organizing Your Dyes Fabric Materials
• Some natural dyes go well with certain fabrics.
  For example, cotton works well with high-fiber
  natural dyes. You also need to add mordant to the
  dyes.
• The mordant is a deciding factor that gets you
  the desired color on your custom t-shirt.
• For most projects, salt or aloe vera is used as
  an effective mordant for naturally dyeing the
  canvas of custom t-shirts.

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• 4. Readying The Final Product
• These simple steps can be followed to make your
  final product of custom t-shirts printed with
  natural dyes
• 1. Use a ratio of half a cup of salt for 6 cups
  of water and keep your t-shirt soaked in this
  warm salty water for a whole night.
• 2. The following morning, rinse it and dry it as
  much as possible.

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• 3. Fill hot water in a pot and keep enough space
  available for comfortable resting of t-shirt
  fabric (the pot must not overflow).
• 4. Add your chosen dye (add more volume of dyes
  if you need vibrant shades of colors).
• 5. Boil the water and allow it to sit till the
  desired color appears.
• 6. Remove the fabric and let it dry.

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• Tips
• If you want to over dye some specific parts of
  the design, add more salt on the specified
  surface of fabrics.
• After drying up the t-shirts, rinse them in cold
  water and wash them separately by strictly using
  only a small amount of a gentle detergent.

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