"Tie Dye Booth"
Clothing style
By: Charles Harbutt
Date: 1969
Source: Harbutt, Charles. "Tie Dye Booth." Actuality, Inc. Reprinted in Brash, Sarah and Loretta Britten, eds. Our American Century, Turbulent Years: The 60s, Richmond, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1998, 175.
Introduction
Historians do not know exactly where or when tie-dying began. The craft is a method of dying patterns into materials by tying them in such a way that parts of the fabric will not absorb any dye, creating various patterns. Tie-dying existed in the T'ang Dynasty (618–906 C.E) in China. It was known as Shibori in Japan during the Nara Period (552–794 C.E.). Tie-dye also existed in the histories of Indonesia and Peru. In India, tie-dye is known as Bandhana. (Bandhana means "to tie" and is the origin of the English word "Bandana.") In the craft of Bandhana, pieces of cloth are skillfully pinched and...
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1960's Fashion Primary Sources
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