Tie dye is a technique for dyeing fabrics that results in interesting colorful patterns by crumpling, pleating, or folding fabric and tying it with string. Common fabrics used are cotton t-shirts, silk scarves, bed sheets, and clothing. The document describes several tie dye techniques including making stripes by rolling the fabric and tying loops, spirals by folding the fabric around a central point, dots by tying small pinched sections, floral dots by grouping pinched sections, and the accordion fold technique. The easiest method is crumpling the fabric randomly and wrapping strings all over it without following a pattern.