Grab a pack.Ī “mandala” is a shape with repeating elements that grow from/around a central point. If you have additional questions, feel free to comment at the bottom! And a huge thank you to my friend and fellow dyer Melsy, who was the first person ever to show me how to tie a mandala back in 2017.Īll six of the mandalas below were done at WAXON Studio, on Dharma Trading Company’s 27x27” cotton “bandanas” - we love them for wall hangings, and they’re incredibly affordable. I love ice dyeing them, but you can also use liquid dyes in a bottle, or a combo of both (as you’ll see below in my step-by-step pictures).Ī big thanks goes out to the folks in the tie-dye Facebook groups for chiming in on what questions they’d like me to answer in this post. ![]() Three different skills, sort of like a trilogy of mandala-making. This blog post is all about how to fold, how to tie, and how to dye a mandala for ice dyeing. Once you’ve mastered the basic mandala, you can do a lot with it, and move on to more complicated versions, like the dream catcher fold. I have found that through teaching it, my brain has memorized the steps, and even the tying part goes more smoothly now than it did when I was first starting out. Whether you dye your mandala with liquid dyes, create an ice dye mandala it with powdered dyes, or dip-dye it, the beautiful points and lines of a mandala fold are super visually impactful! Here at WAXON, we teach the mandala tie-dye as an “advanced” folding technique, but once you’ve got some practice, it’s really not that hard at all. The steps are logical, they just take some practice. ![]() ![]() One of the most visually impressive tie-dye patterns ever is the mandala fold, but clear instructions can be a little bit elusive.
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