Redyeing suppressed bleached fabric

A process for redyeing partially bleached fabric or garments to yield sharply-etched multicolored designs comprises the steps of: (a) dyeing the fabric, or purchasing a commercial garment, with a background first color; (b) gathering selected areas of the dyed fabric with ligatures to restrict access of further reagents; (c) bleaching the gathered background dyed to remove the first color from the areas outside the gathered areas; and (d) redyeing the bleached areas with a second color, whereby sharply defined multicolored patterns are formed having from about 0.2 mm to about 2 mm of white gap between each color.