Customer Reviews

Jacquard Funky-groovy Tie Dye Kit

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

THIS KIT WAS AWESOME!! I have used many tie dye kits but this kit was by far the best! The colors are gorgeous and stay vibrant even after many washings. Its messy but any tie dye kit is... thats half the fun!
I recommend getting a few pairs of gloves because its impossible to wash the gloves off and put them back on. You will need more pairs. I will definitely buy this kit again.

I HIGHLY recommend this product.

I love this tie dye kit. The dyes are great quality. The colors are actually the true primaries: cyan, magenta, and yellow. This allows for the best mixing results. I bought this kit many, many years ago, and they used to give you larger quantities of dye--actually three little glass jars of powder. Now they just pour a little powder in the bottom of each squirt bottle. Still, if it's your first time dying anything on your own, this kit is perfect.

I am a fairly experienced tie dyer (I have my own small tie dye business and have sold several items made with this kit) and I must say that I LOVE this kit. It's made in the USA, easy to use, and the colors are bright and vibrant even after several washings. I especially love how the instructions are fully illustrated. I highly recommend this kit.

This kit was fun and easy to understand. It was a great hit at my daughters 2 year birthday party. Price was okay and it really made a lot of things.

This worked great! I've used it 4-5 times now. I've never used another brand but this one is very nice. I've had shirts go through 3 boys now and they DO NOT fade much at all (if any)! They have never bled. We try to set it with vinegar after but don't always remember to do it. The colors are wonderful. We have so much fun with this...most people think the shirts were purchased tie-dyed.

I bought this kit for my first attempt at tie dyeing. I was more than satisfied with the results. My 7 year old daughter and I made five shirts and still have enough dye for another.

The kit came with 3 squeeze bottles that each had the powdered dye pre-measued in them, just add warm water to the line and shake. It also comes with a small bag of soda ash that you dissolve in water and allow the shirts (or what ever) to soak in prior to applying dye. Some how this helps to fix or make permanent the dye to the fabric.

The dyes were incredibly vibrant and easy to use. Being as this was our first time, we watched a few youtube videos to get some ideas on what to do. It truly was unnecessary, as the instructions are quite clear, still it gave me more confidence that we were doing it right.

We made 3 shirts using the spiral method, 1 folded horizontal 'accordion' style, and finally one just balled up. By far the classic spiral shirts came out the best. The folded one looks pretty good, but I doubt we'll bother with the balled up method again. That shirt looks more like it just came off the paintball field (still not bad though:-).

Next time (and there will be a next time) my daughter wants to try her hand at doing a peace sign. I think we'll catch a few more videos on that topic first.

Anyway, I highly recommend this kit, and I promise to 'report back' if I find the shirts fading. So far we've only had 2 washes since making them.

Another grandson Wish List (for birthday)coup! This one was terrific ... he really wanted it, and the next time he arrived at grandparents' house, he was sporting a newly tie-dyed shirt (great job!) he was justly proud of. I'm sure there was all sorts of learning skills prompted by the gift, but above all, his sense of accomplishment was wonderful.

I've been looking for a tie dye kit for a long time, seeing as I wanted to try it out and didn't want to waste a lot of money on the supplies before I actually tried it out.
So I bought this kit and a very good price. Shipping was fast. Delivery was definatey not.

This kit came with very clear and fun instructions.
Was easy to do, and results are fantastic.
Highly reccommended!

I highly recommend this tie dye kit. It was easy to use, and the dyes are absolutely beautiful, vibrant colors. I was able to die a men's XL t-shirt and a women's cotton maxi dress with one kit. As Amazon seems to consider this a toy, it is worth pointing out that this could be a disaster with younger kids given how potent the dies are and that you are dealing with fabric wet with water and dye that has the potential to drip. I didn't see this mentioned many other places, but you want to plan on dying cotton. Other materials (like cotton/poly blends) will not take the dye as well or in some cases, at all.

I needed a simple kit that had everything I needed (minus the shirt). Just what I needed. I made two shirts with my autistic son and he loved it. He really enjoyed squirting the dye over the shirt and watching the colors meld to make more colors. We did the spiral pattern. So easy!!! The biggest time consumption is rinsing the shirt thoroughly after the dye sets.

I let the dye set 30 hours and it came out great!

This kit says it will make 5 shirts. Based on using generous amounts of all 3 colors I'd say we could easily do 4 shirts total so if you were at all careful you could probably get 6 shirts out of it.

If you want more colors an idea would be to get more plastic squirt bottles (like small diner sized ketchup bottles) and mix the primaries into those to form the color you are after. However, keep in mind as you pour (squirt) on your colors that when they overlap they will form that color anyway. So when you pour yellow first, then blue, just overlap it as much as you need to get a perfect green!

Definitely use plastic to cover everything around you. Mainly your work surface. The bottles squirt nicely so you really don't make a big mess if you are even a little careful. The only thing that got stained were the gloves we had on to protect our hands. Nothing got on our clothes or on the floor.

I rinsed them outside in a bucket using the garden hose to get large volumes of water quickly.

This was well worth the money. Have fun!!!