Pumice stones are my favorite thing to have around the house....
Buy porous pumice stones. These will play an important part of the dying process. They are cheap and easy to find just about anywhere.
Soak the pumice stones in chlorine bleach.
Load the jeans and the stones into an industrial washer. Or as I have done... Do it in a bathtub, but turn the fan on, open a window and cover your mouth and nose, because the fumes are icky.
Check on the jeans after 15 minutes. The typical time it takes is 25 minutes, but you want to check to make sure. You don't want to go too far in either direction with acid washing. Too little can make a fabric look awful, and over-doing it can destroy a great pair of jeans.
Keep checking every ten minutes after that for just the right look!
Once the jeans are dyed to perfection, they should be transferred to another machine (or if you did it in the bath tub, just transfer it to your regular washer), and have rock salt added to water they are washed with. Leave them washing for five minutes in this process. This will remove any remaining chlorine. (It may small like rotten eggs, no worries.)
Wash jeans in water for five minutes more to remove any grit from the stones and any possible remaining chlorine.
Put the jeans in a high-powered drier until all dry! You now have completed the process of acid washing.
Buy porous pumice stones. These will play an important part of the dying process. They are cheap and easy to find just about anywhere.
Soak the pumice stones in chlorine bleach.
Load the jeans and the stones into an industrial washer. Or as I have done... Do it in a bathtub, but turn the fan on, open a window and cover your mouth and nose, because the fumes are icky.
Check on the jeans after 15 minutes. The typical time it takes is 25 minutes, but you want to check to make sure. You don't want to go too far in either direction with acid washing. Too little can make a fabric look awful, and over-doing it can destroy a great pair of jeans.
Keep checking every ten minutes after that for just the right look!
Once the jeans are dyed to perfection, they should be transferred to another machine (or if you did it in the bath tub, just transfer it to your regular washer), and have rock salt added to water they are washed with. Leave them washing for five minutes in this process. This will remove any remaining chlorine. (It may small like rotten eggs, no worries.)
Wash jeans in water for five minutes more to remove any grit from the stones and any possible remaining chlorine.
Put the jeans in a high-powered drier until all dry! You now have completed the process of acid washing.
