Has anybody ever screen printed with bleach? im looking at a pair of shorts last years gunit collection and the jean shorts have gunit on the pant leg it looks like it was bleached.
has anyone ever done something like this and if so how did you do it?
I was at an earthday celebration and I talked to a woman who decorated some shirts using bleach. It was pretty interesting. I did a search on google and found plenty of information on the process. Most of the techniques involved using a Clorox bleach pen.
I was at an earthday celebration and I talked to a woman who decorated some shirts using bleach. It was pretty interesting. I did a search on google and found plenty of information on the process. Most of the techniques involved using a Clorox bleach pen.
John
That is so weird - anyone into Earthday should not be using bleach at all...
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I actually did some extensive research and found this product called bleach thickner, and when mixed with bleach can be used in the fashion as plastisol then once the bleach has been air dried for a while and the fabric has gotten to the color you want you dip the fabric in a bucket of another product called bleach stopper, then your product is done. i havent done it yet but when i do ill post the outcome of the experiment so that if others want to do it they know wsup. im gonna also see if i can film it and post it on you tube so that it can be viewed as well.
About 20 years ago I experimented using bleach on shirts. I took a kelly green 100% cotton shirt and with a spray bottle filled with a 50/50 water bleach solution and setting the spray nozzle at a fine stream, squirted line patterns all over it. The areas where the bleach touched the green fabric turned a strange yellow color within 15 seconds. I then put it into a bucket of water to stop the bleaching process. I washed and dryed it as normal and had the coolest looking shirt I ever saw. It had kinda like a tye dye look with the green and yellow offsetting each other. I then tried one with a red shirt and got a red/orange effect from it. The shirts began to disintegrate after a few months where the bleach discolored the fabric. I don't know if the solution was too strong or I left it on too long. I never tried doing it again but have been thinking about giving it another shot someday. I think a have a picture of them somewhere. I'll try to post it.
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I was wondering what would happen if you mixed a diluted bleach mixture right into plastisol.
Low bleed white ink. Bleach that kills migrating or sublimating dyes from polyester released by heat.
Snifff....... Smell that hydrogen peroxide smell when you print the white ink.
Mmmm. Bleach.
Soft hand curable base, a little laundry bleach. Do experiments with concentration. Don't worry too much, hydrogen peroxide is used to clean open wounds and the mouth.
Rinse in a 'base' solution to counteract the acid action of the peroxide. Baking soda would work fine. That's the mix I use on my corroded battery terminals.
Go get'em.
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Last edited by RichardGreaves; May 26th, 2007 at 11:38 AM.
Low bleed white ink. Bleach that kills migrating or sublimating dyes from polyester released by heat.
Snifff....... Smell that hydrogen peroxide smell when you print the white ink.
Mmmm. Bleach.
Soft hand curable base, a little laundry bleach. Do experiments with concentration. Don't worry too much, hydrogen peroxide is used to clean open wounds and the mouth.
Rinse in a 'base' solution to counteract the acid action of the peroxide. Baking soda would work fine. That's the mix I use on my corroded battery terminals.
Go get'em.
Hey,
Mind if I ask you a couple of questions?
> What kind of bleach do you use?
> Does it damage the emulsion at all?
> What do you mean by "soft hand curable base"? Is this something you dip the shirt in once you've screened it?
Thanks mate, any help you can offer would be grand.
Screen printing with bleach..... 
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