Tai-Dai

Patterns in the style of Tai-Dai look incredibly juicy and bright than attract young people. This is a great way to show individuality, uniqueness and rebellious spirit. Style Tai-Dai, who announced himself many years ago, and today is relevant.

Print with a rich history

This mysterious word unites several techniques of dyeing fabrics, which are based on its winding, stitching, squeezing or folding. Its roots are fashionable today painting in Tai-Dai technique takes in Japanese culture. This technique has become widespread in India, where a similar method of textile ornamentation was called knot dyeing. In Africa, China and the eastern countries, the Tai-Dai technique for dressing clothes was also widely used, and in the US in the early seventies of the last millennium the representatives of the hippie subculture were popularized. It is here that this method of fabric ornamentation, originally called "sibori" (in the incorrect English "shibori" transmission), has acquired a modern name. It is translated as "tie - color," which fully reflects the essence of the technique itself. A few years later, Tie-Dye's print penetrated into the territory of the USSR. The very first "swallows" were jeans-varenki , which brought Soviet travel, and then independently learned to reproduce resourceful mods and women of fashion. Clothing from denim was simply boiled in boiling water, achieving the desired effect. It is worth noting that it was very difficult to predict the result in advance. Painting clothes and textiles made of natural cotton fabric, in iridescent colors that merge with each other, forming a psychedelic cheerful print, today is a modern version of the classic method of staining, which goes back to different cultures of the world.

Fashion clothing in the style of Tai-Dai

Perhaps the most striking manifestation of the style of Tai-Dai in modern fashion are T-shirts, popularized by American hippies. And today they remind us of a merry time, which brought noticeable changes to the life of the planet. Mike Tai-Dai, combined with wide jeans, sneakers and a mail-bag , decorated with fringe, allows to create a unique image in the ethnic style, which is full of freedom, love of life and energy. The uniqueness of such things lies in their uniqueness, since even under industrial conditions it is difficult to tie the knot twice for coloring so that the pattern is the same. What can we say about painting things at home?

Tai-Dai own hands

T-shirts, bandanas, scarves and T-shirts are easy to make and at home. All that is needed is a product made of natural fabric (cotton, silk, linen), fabric dyes, an elastic band or thread, a brush or a cotton pad. You can paint a T-shirt in a dry and wet form. In the first case, the border between the colors will be more pronounced, and in the second - blurred. Having fastened on the product any knots, forming folds or simply crumpling, fix it with the help of threads or rubber bands. Then, after preparing the solution for coloring according to the instructions, paint should be applied. After waiting a few minutes, you must rinse the T-shirt in water at room temperature. Dry it should be, without removing the rubber bands. When the shirt has dried, it will remain to remove the fixatives and iron it. The effect of Tai-Dai impresses with its originality and uniqueness, and an ordinary T-shirt will acquire a new life!