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Tie-dye pattern: spiral, bullseye, crumple in three colourways

Tie-dye — A tight crumple resist: dye reaching the cloth in fine irregular veins a millimetre wide with pale ridges between, the whole surface mottled evenly, no two passages the same and the cotton grain showing., tie-dye repeat, a hand-tied resist recorded in the cloth — veins, rings or a wound spiral — the dye deepest where the cloth was slack and undyed white along every crease, six dyes bleeding into one another at the folds

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Reading 1Ditsy
Reading 2Medium
Reading 3Large

Tie-dye is a resist made by hand: cloth bound with string and dropped in the vat, so the dye reaches some places and not others. These nine hold a classic spiral fold, a bullseye fold and a crumpled fold, each reading as a genuine record of its binding. Ask for a different dye colour and the same fold structure carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each tie-dye field is a seamless all-over repeat at A3 proportions, printing clean at A4 or scaling to fabric yardage.
Can I get a different dye colour?
Yes — name any colour, and the same fold-based resist pattern renders it.
What's the difference between the three techniques?
Spiral winds the fold from a central point; bullseye binds concentric rings from one point; crumple folds the cloth at random for a scattered, unstructured resist.
Is this a real tie-dye process or a designed graphic?
It draws on real hand-tying resist technique as its style reference — the grammar is the fold itself, so the result reads as a record of a binding rather than a printed graphic pattern.

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