Name: Sarah

Message: Hi i'm Sarah. I'm doing like 7 shirts for my school team because were having a athletic olympic thing where we compete against other teams... and were doing tie dye of course and i really needed to know how to tie the mirror spiral shirt with turquoise and purple. Because i need really need to see like a video of it because just the words on how to say it really confuses me. If you could send me a video by sunday or something that would help at all that would be great....Please and thankyou....SARAH:)

There is a good video on how to do a single spiral embedded in my "How to Tie Dye a Spiral" page. All you have to do for a mirror spiral is to fold your shirt in half before doing what is shown on the video.

I'm afraid that I can't create a custom video on how to do a mirror spiral. You can try searching on a video clip website, but not all of the how-to videos you can find are reliable. Some will point you in the wrong direction and waste your time and effort.

If you find these instructions to be too confusing, you should buy a good DVD on how to do it. The Tie Dye 101 DVD by True Tie Dye makes it easy to learn how to do spirals and other tie-dye techniques. Their other DVD set, Advanced Tie Dye techniques, covers hearts, peace signs, stars, arrowheads, mandalas, sunbursts, and other advanced designs.

Alternatively, you can just do trial and error, as most people do. Just fold your shirt in half, and tie a standard spiral. If you are not sure what the instructions are saying, make your best guess, and try it. See what you get. Next time, do it a little differently. Eventually, you will learn how to do exactly what you want. Hands-on is the best way to learn.

If you use good materials, your beginner's attempts will still look good. Use a good cool-water tie-dye kit, or else buy the ingredients separately, Procion MX dyes plus soda ash plus urea. (Do NOT try to tie-dye using a hot-water dye such as Rit dye, because the colors will fade very quickly and bleed badly in the laundry.)

Here are some pages you should look at:
• How do you tie-dye a spiral pattern?
• How to Tie Dye - Complete Instructions
• Double Spiral at the Tie Dye Wiki
• Single Spiral at the Tie Dye Wiki
• True Tie Dye videos (commercial site)


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