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SPK

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Originally Posted by nomad
lee riders jacket, overdyed black, waxed with calf sleeves
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Originally Posted by nomad
lee riders jacket, overdyed black, waxed with calf sleeves
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I'm doing something like this, denim jacket died black with black waxed kangaroo sleeves, blatant rip off that dude on SZ. I've got a break soon, hoping to get it finished up
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edit: if it is not a failure I will take many a photo
 

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Kinda related... Someone I know went to a Holi with his jeans and they ended up looking like this.
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I would do it if I had a retired pair of jeans or a pair of true beaters. Probably looks pretty good with faded paint.
 

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Originally Posted by lemmywinks
Kinda related... Someone I know went to a Holi with his jeans and they ended up looking like this.

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I would do it if I had a retired pair of jeans or a pair of true beaters. Probably looks pretty good with faded paint.


Woa, that actually looks pretty awesome.
 

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Kinda boring, but I dyed a couple shirts. They were white but tainted from bleeding denim. Started with just RIT Wine dye, which turned out to be bright ****-me-in-the-ass fuschia, so I redyed them black. I think they're alright, the tee came out the same color as Silent sea lavendar IRL, sans the pit stains haha.
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Originally Posted by Big Pun
Kinda boring, but I dyed a couple shirts. They were white but tainted from bleeding denim. Started with just RIT Wine dye, which turned out to be bright ****-me-in-the-ass fuschia, so I redyed them black. I think they're alright, the tee came out the same color as Silent sea lavendar IRL, sans the pit stains haha.

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This one is pretty awesome.
 

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Looks good but the pit stains are a bummer. Try bleaching!
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Blueberry linen turned out much more subtle than expected. Would've been a uniform light blue, had I not chucked all the blueberries at it while it was drying.
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Big Pun: liking the wine.
 

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This thread is great, the linen shirt looks really nice actually as do those almost fully bleached denim. Newbie question but for shirts that have staining that isn't too severe if it was dry cleaned and then died black would that work fully do you think? Thanks
 

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why dont you use blue dye and get bits of cloth and roll it up and throw it in the dye mix to give the blueberry effect.
 

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Gonna paint my margielas white. Any recommended paint?
 

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