Product Details

• Actors: Michael Fowler
• Directors: Andreas Monies Bøggild
• Format: Color, Dolby, Full Screen, PAL
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Monies Film
• DVD Release Date: January 31, 2005
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007QQW2W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,677 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Jason Pollen, Kansas City Art Institute

Refreshing, exhilarating, exciting and wildly vivid! I think all surface designers should see and use it!

Product Description

The definitive, "no-holds-barred", look at tie-dye for everyone! Both beginners and seasoned professional fiber artists can reap tremendous amounts from this DVD. If you would like to learn how to tie-dye or advance your skills in tie-dyeing, then this is a must have.

Learn fabulously crisp color techniques to snowflakes, kaleidoscopes, pigment dyeing, and just about everything tie-dyed. All of the tips, tricks, folds, and licks- An opera of color and technique!

The Art of Tie-Dye spans more than twelve years of tie-dyeing that culminates on an entertaining and very informative DVD. Non-stop tie-dye instructional footage, special features, interviews and more ... The Art of Tie-Dye (DVD) is the ultimate "How-to Tie-Dye" resource.

Art of Tie-Dye Chapters

1. Introduction & Preparation
2. Chemical Water

T-shirts

3. Scrunch/Chaos
4. Accordion Fold
5. Earth
6. Indian Spiral
7. Lightning Bolt
8. V-Design

Tapestries

09. Earth
10. Kaleidoscope
11. Spiral
12. Mandala
13. Star

14. Procion MX Dye
15. Pigment Dye
16. Dyeing T-Shirts
17. Dyeing Tapestries
18. Rinsing & Drying

Special Features

19. Interview with Mike Fowler
20. Tie-dye & California

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tie-dyeing in action!, March 3, 2005

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Paula Burch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Tie-Dye (DVD)

There are many books and web sites on the subject of tie-dyeing, but none of them can teach you how to do it as well as actually watching. In this DVD, Michael Fowler demonstrates exactly how to fold fabric for tie-dyeing in many different ways, including mandalas, earths, kaleidoscope, stars, spirals, lightning bolts, chaos, and more. He also gives exact details of recipes that work, using Procion MX dye, and discusses the advantages of both fiber reactive dyeing and pigment "dyeing" with paint, for different purposes.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tie dye resource!, March 6, 2005

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Vicki Jensen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Tie-Dye (DVD)

For anyone who has ever desired to give tie dye a try, Mike Fowler's DVD, "The Art of Tie Dye", is a fantastic place to gain the knowledge to get you started. Mike's passion and years of experience as a professional tie dyer offer the viewer with all kinds of tips for tie dyeing, that would never be discovered on their own.

He gives very easy directions on the preparation of fabric, 6 different methods of folding shirts, as well 5 methods of folding cloth for tapestries which achieve amazing kaleidoscope patterns. Recipes are given for the preparation and use of both MX dyes and pigments. Step by step processes are clearly illustrated, in addition to explanations given on why you need to use the different supplies in each recipe and the role each one plays, which helps to understand the complete process.

Whether you are a quilter or tie dyeing for fun or for profit, you will gain a wealth of information to create one of a kind fabrics for wearable art and home decor. This DVD offers endless options and is one that you will go back to, time and time again.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Tie-dye Resource!, March 3, 2005

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Stephen J. O'Connor - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Tie-Dye (DVD)

Whether you are a beginner or a professional tie-dyer, this DVD has loads of great information. From the ubiquitous spiral to esoteric mandalas, Michael Fowler clearly demonstrates techniques that will help bring your tie-dyes up several notches. I have searched print sources and the Internet for this kind of information without success until now. Furthermore, the DVD nudges you to explore your own combinations using his folds as building blocks. The fast paced presentation will also help you explore color combinations that you probably not considered before. I have viewed The Art of Tie-dye repeatedly, each time picking up something new. I can't believe some of the creations I have made since viewing this DVD!