Silk Ties

[steve]

I bought some blank silk ties a while back. Any suggestions as to how to best dye these? Are they worth bothering with? Someplace I recall seeing something about painting ties with a thickened dye.

I wear ties daily and love my wild and/or child oriented ties. Can I make vivid colored wild ties?

It might be more fun to tie-dye some silk, then make a tie--but that is probably beyond what I can do in terms of ability of time!

Thanks,

Steve

(who needs something bright and colorful after 8 days of rain!)

[Kathy]

I have never done ties myself but from what I have gleaned from all our wonderful tie-dye and dye community friends is that a non-immersion method of dyeing is the best for pre-maid ties. They tend to get mishapen and "wonky".

Kathy

[Vyxxan]

I bought some blank silk ties a while back. Any suggestions as to how to best dye these? Are they worth bothering with? Someplace I recall seeing something about painting ties with a thickened dye.

I wear ties daily and love my wild and/or child oriented ties. Can I make vivid colored wild ties?

It might be more fun to tie-dye some silk, then make a tie--but that is probably beyond what I can do in terms of ability of time!

Thanks,

Steve

(who needs something bright and colorful after 8 days of rain!)

Never saw this before...

Steve, I bought some silk tie blanks, too.  They are still sitting there, because they aren't washable.  I had the idea of doing the white ones as a wild tie-dyes for my teacher brother-in-law.  Finding out that they would go all wonky has left them sitting there.

Fabric paint will work.  I have all the colors of Lumieres paints, so someday I'll sponge colors on em and/or stamp them with the paint.  I just lost interest when I found out I couldn't dye the white ones.  But the black ones... those will look sooo great with just a couple colors of Lumiere sponged on with a sea sponge...

Vyx

[ecilA]

oh man, I dyed a lovely silk tie for my dad, it really was beautiful, at least the silk part was.  I kept it for about a year making random attempts to reshape it...finally my mom took it to fix it and well?  Dad still hasn't gotten his tie.  I think the best thing would be to find a nice tie pattern and dye silk to make them from, at least if you want to use any technique that doesn't leave the body in pristine original shape.

[fiberartist219]

I had a couple of these, and I painted them with thickened dye... I had a hard time with them. They took up a lot of space when I spread them out on the table. Fortunately, they didn't get too wonky when I rinsed them out, but the first layers of color showed up really bright, and then the next layers of overdye didn't turn out hardly at all... no matter how much dye I put into the mixture or how many times I added another layer of color.

One was a potato dextrin experiment, and the other was just some funky lines, with as manly of a color as I can produce for a background.

[hometowntiedye]

I have done several silk Ties.  I do the Vinegar method to soak them and then Microwave them in a plastic bowl and hand wash and hang Dry.  They have turned out very nice but the colors on silk are much different than they are on Cotton and they bleed like crazy.  This last time I dyed 12 of them for a wedding and I used various thickened dye and was less heavy handed so it did not bleed as much but still no definite patterns could be done pretty much just scrunchie type look.  I also do not tie them up very tight I sort of acrodian fold them to make sure I can get in all of the creases and not leave a bunch of white.

My mother in Law is attempting Silk Painting as she is a spectacular painter and this may be another way for you to use these.