What's the art history of tye dye?

The history of the dye can go on and on but where it originated was a thousand years ago in Mesopotamia and India. In one thousand B. C., cloths such as those used to wrap mummies were found in dyed form in Egypt. It's possible that the dying techniques trekked through various trade routes from India to Egypt.

Sand batik techniques were used occasionally in Western fashion before the 1960s, modern psychedelic tie-dying did not become a fad until the late 1960s following the example set by rock stars such as Janis Joplin and John Sebastian.