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Discharge Dyeing

video Discharge Dyeing

This tutorial thoroughly covers how to extract dye from a dark shirt; transforming it into something original with a unique pattern.

28 comments

Jul 7, 2010. 12:25 PMGunnar120 says:

Heh, Either I did something totally wrong or totally right, it turned out red! Perhaps it was the natural color of the shirt, but it fits the paint splatter (|) Maybe a wrong amount of bleach? Sorry for cell phone picture quality.

Jul 7, 2010. 12:27 PMGunnar120 says:

Sorry, here is the picture... Yay first instructable picture!

Jul 7, 2010. 2:24 PMGunnar120 says:

I'm wrong again! It's orange now! It's quite hilarious.

Jul 7, 2010. 4:31 PM

greeenpro (author) says:

My guess is that you aren't doing anything wrong (in terms of the color). The color that you end up with when doing this can be unpredictable because black dyes vary. Some shirts end up brown, some orange, some red, etc. It depends on the colors that the dye manufacturers used to make the black dye. Thanks for sharing the pic! Peace!

Aug 3, 2010. 10:33 AMmasterochicken says:

I always get jealous when the turn out red. It just means you got lucky. Most garments turn brown.

Feb 2, 2009. 4:00 PMtheganjaissweet says:

AHHH!!!! I misread it wrong, I put 3 parts bleach to 1 water!!!! Haha, I didn't think that seemed right, anyways, I ruined a few shirts, but I will try this again with some plain black ones.

Feb 2, 2009. 4:30 PM

greeenpro (author) says:

Ouch! Oh no. It really works great if you follow those instructions well...best of luck! Have fun.