Transforming a boring old black t-shirt using bleach!

Step 8 Yes! It is the same t-shirt

I have un-banded my shirt, rinsed and washed in the washing machine, and here's what it looks like. It's brown with black splodges! Now all I have to do is to tell my son what I have done with his shirt! Ooops! The last pictures in this step are of a couple of shirts I bleached last year. They were both black to start with, but the bleach has made them very different colours. They were tied in what they call "the flower fold". The first picture is of the fronts and second the backs.

If you use a dark blue shirt, you will get pink with blue splodges! With black it depends on the dye of the original garment as to whether you will get brown or grey. Bottom line, it's not boring and it's quick!

Quick Note: for more bleach dyed effects go to http://www.instructables.com/id/Sons-of-Boring-Black/

Comments

[RaisedByRobots]

wow, awesome results!

[meyers]

what if i add a colour corant to the bleach and water solution? Would the dye be for example blue instead of the bleach stain colour?

[mlockhart]

No - only because bleach removes color from anything. If your dye is in the same solution as the bleach, the bleach'll suck the color right out of it!

But, if you dye the shirt a color afterward, the places you've bleached will be extra thirsty and be very receptive to color!

Cool idea

[meyers]

Well thank you very much ;D
I'll try it.

[gi joe]

thanks cool shirt

[BobbyCage]

any way to keep all the "holes" black, makin 'em look like bullet holes?

[BobbyCage]

 oh...and also, the bigger the "object", like the marble, the bigger the circle?

[maniqueen]

I reaaally like the first one in the second row of pictures... you should do a tutorial for that one!! pleeease

[KottonKandy]

Way cool! I can't wait to try this!
    -K.K

[whitehawk]

Great instructable - thanks! Just a quick tip to add: When you remove the shirt from the bleach mixture, it's a good idea to rinse it first in water, then in water with vinegar added. The vinegar neutralizes the bleach to make sure it doesn't keep working. cheers, julie

[stinkymum]

Thanks, that's a good idea.

[jeana41]

Very cool! How do you get the design of the one next to the diagonal, the tiger stripy looking one?

[xylo0]

How do u get the arrow design?

[stinkymum]

This is the lightning fold see
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-do-the-lightning-fold-when-bleaching-old-bl/
for the instructions

[jeana41]

Very cool! How do you get the patter of the one next to the diagonal (the "tiger" one)?

[stinkymum]

Go to this link and I'll show you how!
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-do-the-lightning-fold-when-bleaching-old-bl/

[seantowle]

how do you do the one where it has the three circles and the lines diagonally across? thanks in advance

[stinkymum]

You scrunch diagonally from one corner to the sleeve opposite in pleats and rubber band round. Then you take some marbles and put them in the other corners and band them an then dip in the bleach solution.