we've all seen those Velcro t-shirts where you can rearrange the letters, but eventually the bits get lost. I'm suggesting iron-on temporary letters (and punctuation of course), that let you make a statement that might be poignant today but tomorrow you'll wish would just wash out when you clean the t-shirt - these do exactly that. "I haven't slept with David Beckham" "I went to the t-shirt shop and all I got were these lousy temporary letters" "Rumsfeld for President !"-- neilp, May 10 2004 (??) Interactive T-Shirt http://www.cuckoode...k/product.asp?id=73Write your message. Wash it off. Write another message etc. [DrBob, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] What's the mechanism?-- jutta, May 10 2004 thanks [zanzibar] - I reckon you could get letters which biodegrade on contact withe the kind of enzymes in washing powder - you wouldn't want the letters leaking in the rain or discotheque now would you ?-- neilp, May 10 2004 she's up and left us [z], in mid anno....-- neilp, May 10 2004 Do non-biological washing powders still contain the enzymes to which you refer [neilp]? If not then I suggest they are not appropriate.
You could always bolt an etch-a-sketch to the front!-- dobtabulous, May 10 2004 "Rum __ for ________lent"?-- neilp, May 10 2004 [dob] - nah I think that's what makes them non-bio, but I'm sure there's a way....-- neilp, May 10 2004 Biological washing powders contain stuff like proteases don't they? So a protein based paper would be needed which wouldn't be good for ironing!
You could make it out of cellulose and have a sachet of cellulase to add to your wash.
Nice idea(l) though-- hazel, May 10 2004 Or, of course, statement T-shirts that change in the wash to say something completely different, as selected parts of the design wash out.-- DrCurry, May 10 2004 I'm with __u___. ---->-- lintkeeper2, May 10 2004 The threads in the fabric already form a cross point matrix. Could you do it electronically by putting electronic-paper dye on the crosspoints?-- kbecker, May 10 2004 Baked. Only yesterday I was pondering a purchase, for one of my many nieces, of just such an item <see link>. It's not quite as freeform as you want, neilp, but I reckon that it can easily be adapted.-- DrBob, May 11 2004 What? No Velcro skull patches?-- Letsbuildafort, May 11 2004 Henna ink cartridges.-- bristolz, May 11 2004 Proposed Mechanism : You'll need a stencil set, a bottle of spray on starch and a spray bottle of weak solution iodine.
Starch stencil the slogan
Iodine spray over the t-shirt.
Your slogan is then revealed in wonderful Prussian blue. Simply wash to remove the slogan or spray a fixer to keep.-- jonthegeologist, May 13 2004 random, halfbakery