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?

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.

Zhang Hanmin, a craftswoman from southwest China's Yunnan province, recently presented the intangible cultural heritage of tie-dye at a Starbucks store in Shanghai. Tie-dye is an ancient Chinese ...

Duan Yinkai, an inheritor of the tie-dye technique, takes out stitches from the tie-dye cloth in a dyehouse in Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Dali, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 12, 2013. Duan ...

The textile technique has gotten celebrity attention again this season, but it’s always been part of the arts scene in places like Nigeria and Japan. By Melanie Abrams When Jared Leto donned a ...

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 ...