How to Mineral Wash Clothes

Whaaat up everybody! So today I'm going to show you how to get this mineral wash effect on a t shirt.

so I took the black shirt I wanted to use and tested out bleach on it.. and I didn't like how yellow it made it.

So instead I'm going to use water based ink for screen printing.

I just put it in a little container and added water. I got it to a constancy of something like milk. Noice!

Next I got my shirt. I just used an old shirt of mine... and a hard service I can put inside the shirt.

I put down some spray adhisive so that the shirt will hold still

then take some round pebbles.. put it in the ink mixture, take it out, rub it in your hands (to evenly spread the ink on the rocks) then rub it on the shirt.

Every so often take one of the pebbles and dip it into the ink.. and then rub all the rocks in your hand. So that you get more ink on the rest of the rocks... then rub em on the shirt..

So I rotate the shirts.. and rub the rock on it.. and do this that over and over again till it's all done..

This took a hot second.

The hardest part was the sleeves.

After you get it done to how you like it.. ( I would let the ink marks be whiter than you think, cause it will fade a bit) you'll want to heat set that ink.

I used and iron. If your shirt has a design on it, you'll want to put on Teflon paper or something to protect the design from the iron.

after ironing it, I put it in the over like I did on the "how to screen print a t shirt' video. And then washed and dried it.

But I didn't like how much it faded... So I decided to do the whole process over again with a thicker ink mixture.. and after ironing it and putting it in the oven ( and I also put it in the oven for longer) washing and drying it... It turned out pretty cool.

If you guys do this or try it out with bleach I would love to see how it turns out so hit me up!

Music: Beach House - Space song (slowed)

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