Modern fashion trends are increasingly inviting us to bright multi-colored patterns, bold decisions in clothing. Choosing an individual color scheme and original design in your personal wardrobe is a great way to express yourself and a kind of message to others about the essence of your personality. Ready-to-wear is not to everyone's taste, although there is now an incredibly rich and varied selection of various clothing items. Many people prefer to personalize their own look with their own hands, decorating and altering ready-made clothes according to their tastes and preferences. In most cases, this applies to light T-shirts and T-shirts that can be decorated with original prints. Moreover, this can be done not only in specialized firms, but also at home with your own hands. Consider how to make a print on a T-shirt with your own hands.
Paint selection
In order to make a quality print on clothes, it would be better to use acrylic-based indelible dyes. They have very bright and saturated shades, are very easy to use and are incredibly resistant to fading. The skilful combination of acrylic spray paint, water-based spray paint, and liners for drawing the outline of the picture will create an exceptional product with a beautiful image of a fashion design or an original t-shirt lettering.
A creative approach to decorating a plain plain T-shirt will make you the owner of a unique piece. We offer art lovers and people with a well-developed imagination to make an interesting pattern on a T-shirt. So, how to make a quality print on a T-shirt?
Painting patterns on a T-shirt at home
Even without special skills, with the help of special tools you can give clothes a unique style and a bright personality. Consider two ways of drawing a pattern on a fabric - using a stencil and using a nodular technique. They can be used not only separately, but also in close combination with each other. For dyeing, a T-shirt is taken from natural material - cotton, silk, linen, or the product should contain no more than 20% synthetics. If the T-shirt is new, it should be washed before dyeing to remove softening additives.
Requiredtoolkit
To create a unique attire, you will need a few improvised means. You will need the following support materials:
- paints - acrylic aerosol, spray paints, liners and pastels on fabrics of the color scheme you have chosen for the drawing or inscription;
- a set of ready-made stencils or thin cardboard paper to make your own stencils;
- aerosol glue for fixing the stencil on the fabric;
- stationery sharp knife;
- self-adhesive masking tape or paper tape;
- strong thread or rubber bands;
- Small sea pebbles;
- film or old newspapers to protect the apartment from paint;
- personal protective equipment - gloves, goggles, mask.
Knot staining technique
How to make a print on a T-shirt at home using knot technique? Step-by-step instructions involve the implementation of several step-by-step actions:
- Draw a sketch of the future image, choose a color scheme.
- Cover the workplace with film or newspapers, fixing them with masking tape. Unfold the T-shirt, smoothing out all the wrinkles.
- In several places, crease the weave into small knots, securing them with threads or elastic bands. You can wrap a spiral in the center of the T-shirt. To achieve greater heterogeneity, pebble stones can be placed inside the knots, which are fixed on the inside of the T-shirt.
- Shake the can of spray paint well and applyits smooth circles, holding the balloon at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface of the T-shirt. With this dyeing technique, the fabric will be covered unevenly. If you are doing a drawing with many shades, then the darker tones are applied first, followed by the transition to lighter ones. To obtain uniform stripes, the balloon should be sprayed at a distance of 3-5 cm from the material to be painted. Each coat of paint must dry before the next coat can be applied. Between applying layers, pause for 10 minutes to dry the coloring matter, and after painting, you need to dry the product for at least half an hour.
- Remove all the knots from the dry T-shirt, straighten it well and complete the composition with chaotic white spots all over the field of the straightened T-shirt. You can also apply with the help of colored liners various patterns, inscriptions, ornaments. After carrying out all the manipulations, it is necessary to iron this area through a thin fabric for 2-3 minutes, choosing the ironing mode for cotton.
As you can see, it is quite easy to make a print on a T-shirt using knot technique. In addition, such a procedure is quite accessible to everyone at home. But it should be remembered that such a T-shirt can only be washed by hand in water at a temperature of no more than 30 degrees, after turning the product inside out.
Using thermal transfer paper
Printing a T-shirt with thermal transfer paper is even easier. This technique is quite convenient to use, and the result will undoubtedly please the owner of an exclusive item,decorated by him.
To create a print, you need to prepare:
- t-shirt (white);
- thermal transfer paper;
- iron.
First of all, decide which print you want. Before you print a picture, turn it in the mirror direction. This is done so that as a result, when applied to the fabric, you get not a mirror image, but the correct display. This rule is especially important if your image contains text captions.
Lay out the T-shirt on the surface of the ironing board. flatten the fabric. Take paper with a pattern printed on it. Next, cut out the image along the contour.
Then place the paper on the fabric pattern side down. Next, turn on the iron, choosing the highest power. Then iron the paper for four to five minutes.
After that, leave the product for seven minutes to cool down. Remove the paper, it is no longer needed. Remove it carefully so that the image on the surface of the item is not damaged.
Of course, over time, such a print will lose its presentable appearance. But sooner or later it happens to everything.
Stencil staining technique
Now let's try to master one more simple technique. Next, we will show you how to print on a T-shirt using a stencil.
- Buy a ready-made stencil from a speci alty store or make your own by sketching it on thin cardboard and cutting it out with a utility knife. Cut needcarefully so that there are no protruding remnants of material and crevices on the cuts.
- Cover the workplace in the same way as described in the previous method, and spread out the T-shirt. Ensure maximum fit - fix the stencil on the t-shirt with double-sided tape or temporary spray adhesive.
- Before you make a print on a T-shirt, shake the paint spray can well - shake it for at least 30 seconds. Apply layers of paint in circular smooth movements. In order for the coloring to be of high quality, one more layer of paint should be applied after the previous one has dried.
- When the drawing is finished, the stencil should be removed and the T-shirt dried. And in this case, you can also use liners for additional inscriptions, patterns or ornaments.
- If water-based spray paint was used, this area will need to be ironed on the cotton setting.
Selection of a pattern for print
When wondering what kind of print can be made on a T-shirt, it should be noted that the pattern should not be very technically complicated. Otherwise, it will be extremely difficult to cut a good stencil and make a clear painting of the details. It should be more of a schematic drawing than a work of art. And here your imagination will come to the rescue.
Tips
Let's finally give some useful tips when applying prints to clothes:
- clothing that is exposed to chemical attack should be as natural as possible and contain no more than 20% impurities in the composition of the material;
- the cheapest self-adhesive wallpapers are perfect for making stencils - they fit snugly on the fabric and can be easily removed from it;
- To cut small details of the stencil, it will be successful to use a medical pen, which is used to pierce a finger when taking blood - it is thin and sharp, leaving a beautiful even cut;
- You can use thermal transfer paper to transfer the image to fabric, which you can buy at an electronics store. On this paper, using a color printer, any image is printed that needs to be cut out along the contour, then attached to the T-shirt in the right place and ironed for 4-5 minutes with a very hot iron. After allowing the T-shirt to cool down, you should remove the paper - as a result, you will get the original colorful image.
Conclusion
So, making a print on a T-shirt at home is not difficult. You will be free to experiment with your wardrobe, giving your clothes an elegant look and realizing your creative thoughts and ideas. Having practiced on simple T-shirts, you can also transform boring clothes, giving them a second life and enriching your wardrobe with new extravagant accessories.
