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You can make scuffs on jeans with your own hands - you don't have to give your clothes to the workshop for this. There are several ways to artificially age jeans.
Ways to make faded jeans at home
Frayed and artistically ripped denim pants have not gone out of style for years. Such jeans are worn by both men and women, the scuffs on the fabric give the clothes a stylish and casual look.
If you didn't manage to buy ready-made faded trousers in the store, you can correctly make scuffs on jeans at home with your own hands. Methods for creating scuffs can generally be divided into 3 categories.
- Mechanical... In this case, the new fabric is subjected to an abrasive method - jeans are rubbed with sandpaper or pumice stone, cut or dissolved in the right places with a razor or knitting needle. The main advantage of the method is that scuffs can be performed exactly where needed, and make them very slight or clearly noticeable. The main disadvantage of this method is the risk of accidentally damaging the denim so much that it will no longer be possible to wear jeans later.
- Chemical... The worn pants effect is created by bleaching individual areas of the fabric. Usually trousers are treated with chlorine-containing agents - the paint fades in certain places, and it seems that completely new trousers have been worn for a very long time. The method is very effective and simple, but it also has a drawback - during chemical processing, the strength of the fabric decreases, and jeans will subsequently wear out faster.
- Thermal... When jeans are treated with bleach at a high temperature, areas of the fabric do not completely lose their color, but become lighter, this also creates the effect of "aging". The main danger when using the thermal method is that jeans can change color too unevenly, and a beautiful result will not work.
It is best to create artificial scuffs on straight, classic or skinny jeans; on wide, shapeless pants, artificial aging does not look so impressive. Not only blue jeans look good, but also black frayed jeans, a stylish look is achieved due to bright contrast. Also, scuffs are recommended to be placed in a vertical direction from top to bottom, this visually lengthens the legs and looks more stylish and beautiful.
How to crochet jeans fading
One of the simplest methods of aging jeans involves using a crochet hook. A photo of how to make scuffs on jeans can be found on the Internet, and the procedure is as follows:
- try on clean and dry denim pants and mark small areas right on yourself to create scuffs;
- pants are removed and straightened on a flat surface;
- crochet in the right places, pry the longitudinal threads and pull them up, and then cut them along the border of the intended zone.
The longitudinal denim threads are dyed in the color of the trousers, and the transverse threads differ in shade from the main fabric. Therefore, if you leave only light transverse threads in the intended places, then the scuff will look as natural and bright as possible.
With the help of a crochet hook, you can make decorative frayed areas as accurately and accurately as possible. However, it will take a lot of time. Before aging the trousers, you will have to be patient, since you will literally need to pull the denim threads one at a time.
How to make scuffed jeans using sandpaper
Another way to age jeans is to sand them with hard sandpaper. The main advantage of this method is that it takes a little time to create scuffs.
In order to make frayed holes on jeans, you must:
- take sandpaper with fine grain and tweezers;
- how to wet and wring out the jeans;
- with a remnant or sharp tailor's chalk, draw scuff areas on the pants in the right places;
- how to rub the designated areas with a piece of sandpaper.
To make the scuff look more spectacular, a small longitudinal cut can be made in the center of the intended area with a blade.
After the scuffs on black jeans or blue pants are ready, they will need to be further processed. Here tweezers will come to the rescue, from each frayed area with its help you need to pull out loose longitudinal threads.
After the scuffs have been completely finished, the jeans will need to be machine washed in the delicate mode. This will remove microscopic scraps of loose fibers from the inside and outside of the fabric.
How to make frayed jeans using pumice stone
Another quick and convenient way to make do-it-yourself scuffs on jeans at home is to treat them with a regular pumice stone. In fact, the method is very similar to aging with sandpaper, but when using pumice, the scuffs are more accurate, light and natural.
The work algorithm looks approximately the same:
- on the soaked trousers, zones are outlined in which it is necessary to create the effect of a worn fabric;
- the marked areas are carefully but diligently treated with a piece of pumice;
- at the final stage, individual denim fibers are pulled out with tweezers or a crochet hook.
An interesting way to age denim pants with a pumice stone is to scrub the jeans all over. Since the abrasive properties of pumice are rather weak, it does not harm the structure of the fabric. If you walk a piece of pumice stone all over the jeans, the pants will get a completely natural and stylish worn look. To enhance the effect, in some places they can be rubbed lightly with emery.
Of course, when using pumice and sandpaper at the same time, you should not get carried away. If you age jeans too carefully and for a long time, as a result, holes will form on them, and whole places will creep after several washes.
How to make faded jeans with bleach
You can make beautiful scuffs on jeans without abrasion. A well-known tool called whiteness helps to achieve the desired effect. A powerful bleach creates an interesting optical effect, due to the fact that certain areas of the fabric become much lighter, giving the impression of worn jeans.
In the classic version when using whiteness bleach for jeans applied pointwise, only on pre-designated areas where you need to create decorative scuffs. The algorithm looks like this:
- whiteness is diluted in warm water in equal proportions;
- jeans are straightened on a flat surface, and a piece of hard cardboard is placed under the designated areas from the inside, this is necessary so that the whiteness does not soak through the jeans from the front and back of the leg;
- using a brush or a regular cup, the diluted bleach is applied to the marked areas;
- whiteness is left on the fabric for some time, the exact time must be seen on the instructions on the product packaging.
After the time is up, the jeans will need to be rinsed several times in clean water and dried naturally. The cardboard must be pulled out carefully from the inside and the pants must be rinsed immediately so that the whiteness does not have time to lighten the excess areas.
If you study the photo of how to make faded jeans with your own hands, you can stumble upon another way that allows you to create scuffs using bleaching without any effort. This method is called the "lump" method, but it consists in the following:
- jeans made of coarse fabric are tied with a tight knot, and then tightly pulled with elastic bands several times in random places;
- the resulting lump is first moistened with water from a spray bottle, and then immersed in a basin with whiteness diluted in it;
- after a certain time indicated on the label of the household product, the jeans are removed from the pelvis, the elastic bands are removed and the knot is untied.
After that, the jeans are rinsed several times in running water and dried in the same way as in the previous version. Thanks to the tight knot and several elastic bands, after processing in whiteness, artistic scuffs and faded spots appear in random areas on the jeans. It goes without saying that it is not required to pre-mark the places for creating abrasions with this method of processing, the application of the "pattern" occurs randomly.
How to fade jeans with a razor
If the jeans need to be decorated with noticeable and strong abrasions, or even to make holes in them, it will be most convenient to use a regular razor blade. It should be applied carefully, but it also helps to spend a little time.
- First of all, it is necessary to outline the location of future scuffs on the jeans using crayon or hard dry remnants.
- After that, with a blade, carefully draw 2 even, parallel lines along the right and left seams to release the fibers of the fabric.
- Using a needle, knitting needle or tweezers, pull the longitudinal threads out of denim to get the desired length of fringe.
You can also use a razor to make frayed seams on jeans. To do this, dry trousers need to be spread out on a flat surface and straightened, and then with a sharp razor blade make shallow cuts along the edge of the seams, to the depth where the inner second layer of fabric begins. After that, you need to slightly tousle the incisions with tweezers, and then apply bleach to the desired places and hold it for 10-15 minutes. In conclusion, the trousers are rinsed several times in warm running water or in a delicate mode, washed automatically.
Conclusion
There are several ways to make fading on jeans at once - it will take a little time. When handling denim pants at home, care must be taken not to ruin your clothes.But if you follow the basic rules, aged jeans will turn out to be very beautiful and stylish.
