BTS
Behind the scenes
Dying your prepared for dye blanks is the beginning of the creative process for your brand. One must choose a dye technique and Pantone colors to apply to any silhouettes in the Cali Creme collection. Cali Creme's creative team provides a drop every season to inspire you with different colors and dye techniques.
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Garment Dye
A process where the t-shirt or garment is made, then dyed. Garment dye enables us to achieve a softer, broken-in feel and it takes out 99% of shrinkage to ensure a consistent fit.
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Pigment Dyes
These colors provide a vintage look that will remain for the life of the garment. Gives you the washed out, faded look
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Reactive Dyes
These provide the traditional solid dye appearance, with the great color richness
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Tie Dye
This is a hand process that consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling the garment, before binding with string or rubber bands, followed by the application of dyes.
Types of tie dyes: Spiral, Cloud/Crumple, Bullseye, Sunburst, Horizontal Stripes, Diagonal Stripes, Vertical Stripes, Box Folds, etc.
