Editor Reviews:

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

Rating : - Excellent instruction
The greatest aspect of this DVD is that it covers a lot of ground but has enough repetition to in for retention purposes in it too. There is more to this than instruction and it truly gives a sense of how tie-dying works.

The one downside we (as we watched this as a family) is that it would have nice to have seen the final products prior to doing the particular fold pattern that he was doing. It was not until the very end, when he removes the final product from the dryer, did we see how the pattern turns out. I think it would helped reinforce the folding and dying process to what the creator has in mind.

But, overall, the DVD is a pleasure to watch as he moves with such effortlessness when he makes his art. One gets a sense from watching it that the entire family could join in and do it.