SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- This season, fashion designers all over the world are presenting tie-dye inspired collections on the runway as something new and fresh. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) investigates the trend by exploring its history, which has been honed for centuries by cultures spanning the globe. From pre-historic to modern times, the unique art of tie-dye is resurging. On July 31 the de Young presents To Dye For: A World Saturated in Color in the Lonna and Marshall Wais Gallery and Diana Dollar Knowles and Gorham B. Knowles Gallery for Textile Arts. To Dye For, which runs through January 9, 2011, features over 50 textiles and costumes that include a diverse array of resist-dye examples from the comprehensive collection of textiles from Africa, Asia and the Americas at FAMSF, as well as several Bay Area private collections. Tie-dye is just one example of the resist-dye method, an inclusive term used for