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- You are now ready to dye the fabrics using any of the techniques described on this
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- CD. The effects that you can achieve are limitless and may not be repeatable. Use
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- your imagination to go wild. Play and have fun. Remember that there are never
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- 'mistakes' when you dye fabric, simply a new colour or technique that you have
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- discovered. Try to keep notes so that you can do a particular technique again. When
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- folding fabrics to dye, try to avoid tight folds as this will stop the dye penetrating the
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- fabric and you will end up with large white areas. You can use the fabric either wet
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- or dry, but the wet fabric won't take up as much dye as the dry fabric resulting in
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- more white areas. The water itself acts as a resist. You can even try dye Method
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- Number three, and directly apply the dye to the folded fabric, or dip the edges into
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- different colours. Then wrap in plastic and leave to batch.