cre.ations.net http://cre.ations.net/ A haven for creators and makers, cre.ations.net is the place to quickly publish anything you've created. Free and easy! en-us Copyright 2006, cre.ations.net Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:13:15 -0500 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:13:15 -0500 custom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment on More bleached T-Shirts by tsmaster At 27-Nov-2007 10:50:33, tsmaster posted:

The gluestick glue was great - I just used it on the eye stencils, and it provided just enough adhesion to hold them in place while still allowing me to fine tune the placement - roughly similar to the stickiness of a Post-it note. After the bleaching, it was easy to remove the templates, too.

As for the metal, I suspect that they meant the springs and whatnot inside the sprayer might suffer from prolonged exposure to bleach.

Yeah, the eye isn't nearly as visible as I had been hoping for - but increasing the resolution would mean even more and even thinner strips, and even more accurate placement. I suspect that this particular idea isn't going to look its best with a spray bleach process, so I'd probably go for an iron-on or other high-res approach to get the halftoning to really work right.

On the other hand, the eye shirt (a little more than the others) prompts discussion, which is a good thing, too.


Thanks for the kind words and the inspiration! http://cre.ations.net/creation/261 http://cre.ations.net/creation/261_2652 More bleached T-Shirts Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:33 -0600 Comment on More bleached T-Shirts by sykora At 27-Nov-2007 10:37:30, sykora posted:

Hey, these look good! Nice work! -I also had some problems with the little pieces getting blown around by the spray adhesive. But I was able to rely on backing it way up, and letting the adhesive more or less "fall" onto the stencils, and, the stickiness of my plastic painting dropcloth from previous sprayings to hold the tiny peices in place just a bit. Those two factors together solved my blowing-around problems entirely, even with pieces smaller than a pea. But how was using the gluestick glue? Did it get all over your shirt? Or did you somehow avoid that? Is your spraybottle made of metal, or did they just mean the little metal pieces inside the spray mechanism? I'm afraid I can't see the eye as clearly as you do, but that general design idea is just AWESOME for bleach-shirting, and it's inspiring me! =D
Again, nice job on these! http://cre.ations.net/creation/261 http://cre.ations.net/creation/261_2651 More bleached T-Shirts Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:37:30 -0600