English edit

Verb edit

tie-dying

  1. present participle and gerund of tie-dye
    • 2003, Dawn Cusick, Megan Kirby, The Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts, →ISBN, page 444:
      Fiber dyes are easily absorbed by skin, so always wear rubber gloves while tie-dying.
    • 2007, Joan Hess, A Really Cute Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery, →ISBN:
      She gave me the look that probably worked well when one twin accused the other of tie-dying the family cat.
    • 2014, Frank Hoffmann, Beulah B Ramirez, Fashion & Merchandising Fads, →ISBN:
      No one seems to know how knowledge of the process spread to the U.S.; however, by the late 1960s, "hip" fashion boutiques were buying one dollar white cotton T-shirts, tie-dying them, and selling the rainbow-hued productsfor up to six dollars apiece.