Standing in her spacious Marigny studio, artist Kate Beck brandished a wispy poncho the color of burnt sienna, embellished with swirls of blue and green. “I always think of tie-dye as this spiral ...

A visual expression of happiness in fabric form, tie-dye, in all of its Technicolor glory, is the kind of mood boost we need now—particularly as we’ve been stuck in the same-old confines of home.

Most of us have dyed t-shirts before in school or at camp, or maybe have even bought a cool tie-dye shirt at the store. But what if you could do tie dye at home without ever using a washing machine?

Arimatsu, in central Japan, is the town that tie-dye built. Along its historic main street, fabric merchant houses have stood for centuries. When shopkeepers hang out their shingles here, the signs ...

Photo taken on Dec. 12, 2013 shows a tie-dye product and a weaving shuttle of Duan Yinkai, an inheritor of the tie-dye technique, in a dyehouse in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Dali, southwest China's ...

The process of at-home tie-dyeing is far from new. In fact, we’ve been doing it since we were kids — at sleepovers, summer camps, and oh-so-many birthday parties. But as adults, upon feeling the need ...

Photo taken on Dec. 12, 2013 shows the radix isatidis, the plants used to make tie-dye products, in a dyehouse of Duan Yinkai, an inheritor of the tie-dye technique, in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of ...