Weathering the shirt

[Banditxx1]

Hello ye pirates,

I hope you can help me with a problem. A few weeks ago, I bought the Pauliepoos-shirt and it is great! Paulette also did the weathering and the result is awesome.
I asked her, how she did the weathering and she told me, that she uses a mixture made with strong coffee... lots of coffee...

But the shirt has very strong smell of coffee, so I asked her, how to wash the shirt. She recommended it to me as I played through the shirt with water.
But now, however, most of the weathering is washed out...!

So, now I need a way to apply the weathering in a similar manner - but with a permanent result ... What do you use for the best shirt-weathering result?

To her weathering (with strong coffee) I added some matte-black spray paint fog and that worked quiete well. But her weathering was dirty brown and it was very screen accurate. What paint do you use? And how do you apply it? Using a sponge?

Do you have some pictures of your weathering-steps? I don´t want to ruin the great shirt with some wrong weathering-experiments so I need your experience and advices please...

Greetz from germany

[Mondas42]

Hi

I used the good old fashioned tea dying technique. I made a large pan of strong tea, at least four bags. I used normal breakfast tea and not specialist tea as this may alter the final colour although it may be worth testing. I then soaked the shirt for 20mins and then soaked in cold water and allowed to dry. It's not permanent but unlike coffee doesn't smell as strongly. If you want a darker colour just soak for longer.

Martin

[Banditxx1]

Hello Martin,

thanks for your reply. I also used the tea-method. I did it on my first shirt. You are right, the colour is very brown and yes, it lasts for a long time, even after washing the shirt.

But the problem with this tea soaking-method is, that the shirt is getting "brownish" in total, uniform and unbroken. It changes its colour. The weathering done by Paulette looks more realistic, because it is scattered and wild. Sorry it's difficult to explain in english...

Greetings

[Mondas42]

Er okay, what about after you have tea stained the entire shirt you then make a tea 'swab' by wrapping hot tea bags in some material and then dabbing the swab in areas on the shirt to stain those areas more than others?

Martin

[Banditxx1]

Yeah, maybe that's a good matter for weathering... thanks for this really good idea. Maybe it works with a sponge and a strong tea-soakage.

Any other suggestions ...?

[Blade Savvy]

I too have used the 'patch' swabbing method for the more stained areas - works well. Mind you, you may have already moved on with your weathering by now!

[Banditxx1]

Yeah, I used some of this "Dirty Down" Spray in "ash-blonde". It works very well and it creates yellow-brown stains on the shirt. But also, this spray is not permanent; when washing the shirt, the spray will wash out again...

On my first JS-shirt I tried the tea-staining method. But I wasn´t satisfied with the result.

[Blade Savvy]

Weathering is a very personal thing....!  One that needs continual re-touching too! 

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