distressing t-shirt cotton? HELP!!!
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- tashtego
HI LOVELY PEOPLE,
ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE ANY TIPS/SECRETS ON distressing t-shirts to make the cotton really soft and thin? i've read about techniques from soaking the t-shirt cotton in vinegar for 3 days, etc.
anyone know anything about a special acid bath for making the cotton really thin?
or better yet techniques not involving liquids/soaking? any shredding techniques/ideas?
anything? i'd TRULY appreciate any and all feedback! xoxo
- waterhouse0
hipster alert
- Nairn0
Make it watch a Meryl Streep movie?
- roflanxiousarms
- hehJaline
- killed meMilan
- that was a good one
flashbender
- zirkus_uk0
Buy t-shirts made of really soft thin cotton in the first place.
- johndiggity0
enzyme wash
- pylon0
Wear it for about fifteen years.
- horton0
enzyme wash is common to soften inks and fade color
- neferiu0
Get your dad to buy the shirt in 1972 and wear it often until it's not cool anymore. Then get him to lock it up for you until the 'time is right'.
- zirkus_uk0
- I can't believe that there's actuall a t-shirtforums.com — I thought that was a fake link that you'd posted at first.pylon
- Our society is truly doomed...pylon
- Amicus0
This thread is distressing
- tashtego0
weird question but has anyone tried anything on tshirt cotton with razors to make it paper thin? other weird tools?
- horton0
woah, you're gonna scrape down cotton tshirts with a razor blade to make them thin? these are one-offs? or for production?
- tashtego0
this is for one-offs...nothing going into mass production, all one of a kind shirts....
- zirkus_uk0
^ then go and buy vintage and stop wasting our fucking time
- optika0
use a nail file if it's just one offs.
I personally think this is a relevant design thread (pun).
- tashtego0
well, i'm doing hand silk-screened tshirts/hand embroidered tshirts....for which i;d make the tshirts from scratch, i just wanted to know of any ways to really soften the cotton is all....
- zirkus_uk0
get a cement mixer & fill it with pebbles
add the t-shirts
the tumbling action & friction
with the stones will tenderize the cotton
- Wyenubokwi0
Wow, everyone who commented this thread is either really miserable or to snug and pretentious say something nice.
Or both, I guess.