The Process Of Custom T Shirt Printing With Natural Dyes
                     Custom T-Shirt Printing 
Process
 With Natural Dyes
• Natural fabric dyes can bring the best out of 
your custom t-shirt printing project.
• Clothes printed with natural dyes not only 
add a different feel to the fabric of your 
customized t-shirts but provide higher UV 
absorption.
• A naturally-dyed custom t-shirt can fully 
protect your skin from harmful sun rays and 
even look cooler in style.
1. Finalizing Print Designs & Colors
• Start with selecting the color palette.
• Finalize the main solid colour of your t-
shirt.
• Finalize a unique designing pattern.
2. Selecting The Right Dye Plants
Following factors need to be taken care of 
before you select the dye plant:
• Print design complexities
• Printed areas
• Color palette
• Fabric quality
• Project budget
• For a vibrant red color, madder root plants 
can be used to extract natural dyes.
• Avocado pits can be selected for light pink 
color prints.
• Most of these dye plants are associated 
with one primary color, which is why you 
need to select the plant relevant to the 
solid color finalized in the first stage of this 
process.
• You also need to take care that the dye 
plants can sustain the t-shirt printing 
techniques which require overdyeing or 
overnight dye baths.
3. Organizing Your Dyes & Fabric 
Materials
• Some natural dyes go well with certain 
fabrics. For example, cotton works well with 
high-fiber natural dyes. You also need to add 
mordant to the dyes.
• The mordant is a deciding factor that gets 
you the desired color on your custom t-shirt.
• For most projects, salt or aloe vera is used as 
an effective mordant for naturally dyeing the 
canvas of custom t-shirts.
4. Readying The Final Product:
These simple steps can be followed to make 
your final product of custom t-shirts printed 
with natural dyes:
1. Use a ratio of half a cup of salt for 6 cups 
of water and keep your t-shirt soaked in this 
warm salty water for a whole night.
2. The following morning, rinse it and dry it 
as much as possible.
3. Fill hot water in a pot and keep enough 
space available for comfortable resting of t-
shirt fabric (the pot must not overflow).
4. Add your chosen dye (add more volume of 
dyes if you need vibrant shades of colors).
5. Boil the water and allow it to sit till the 
desired color appears.
6. Remove the fabric and let it dry.
Tips:
• If you want to over dye some specific parts of 
the design, add more salt on the specified 
surface of fabrics.
• After drying up the t-shirts, rinse them in cold 
water and wash them separately by strictly 
using only a small amount of a gentle 
detergent.
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