I bought a white shirt a few months ago. It was a cheap thing from Winners. For those of you that don’t know, Winners is a small department store that sells the things you’d find in an Italian household where all the furniture is covered in plastic.
I also went to Michael’s and picked up a bottle of spray-on black fabric dye. For those of you that don’t know, Michael’s is a small art store that sells the things you’d find in the cluttered house of a graduate visual arts student who is trying to make a living by knitting plastic flowers. If you’ve ever tried knitting plastic flowers, you know how aimless this is, and if you find that you really are knitting plastic flowers, you should probably redefine one of your search terms.
Anyways, I made a T-shirt. It was a very simple process, but one that I’ve not used before. You merely spray the dye over a stencil you’ve placed on the shirt, being careful to place a piece of cardboard/plastic/carbon nanofibre inside to prevent the design from leaking through. It’s much easier than bleaching your design into a black shirt, but also takes much longer to dry – about 3 days.
I need to point out that wearing your own designs makes you appear self-confident and artistic – but only if your designs are good. Otherwise, you may spend your time in an imaginary air of sophistication while you parade around with nothing but a bald wombat on your chest.
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