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[TieDyeGuru]

This shirt is not a discharged black shirt.




This shirt is a discharged black shirt.



This is my first attempt at using Thiox. I found a recipe for discharge paste on the ProChem site. Not the best I've done but a learning experience. I think I prefer the Thiox over bleach. The shirt is a cheap fruit of the loom "undershirt". Came in a pack of 4 for under 10 bucks. The Thiox discharged it to a very pale tan. I used to get shirts from Tultex and man, with bleach they would go almost white. Can't find them anymore.

[fiberartist219]

These are cool. Thanks for showing them to us!

[tiedyejudy]

Can you go into your technique for applying the discharge paste?  Did you use a squeeze bottle?  I did a shirt with a squeeze bottle and my dishwashing gel, but didn't have a lot of success getting the gel into the folds, so I'm really interested in what you did.
Here's how mine turned out:

Kind of splotchy compared to when I apply the dye with a foam brush, and still not enough discharged area to suit me...

Thanks!

Judy

[TieDyeGuru]

Judy,

I actually didn't use as much thickener as the ProChem recipe called for. I ended up with the consistency of a gel.

I first wet the shirt, then I pleated it. I put rubber bands on either side of where I wanted to discharge to make the strip. This left the pleats between the bands kind of loose.

I applied the Thiox with a squeeze bottle over the pleats and in between them, watched it soak in then applied a bit more.

I then steamed the shirt to get it to discharge.

Tom

[tiedyejudy]

Thanks, Tom.  I tried that and got much better discharge coverage.  I will probably do a little cleanup tomorrow... one side's stripes came out a little fatter than the other... but it is a definite improvement!

Judy