denim dye: creating custom colors on old jeans

[weiyung]

Hey

I'm sure a lot of you have some old jeans, I do, and there are some nice jeans that I just don't care about anymore. I've looked into indigo vat, do you think this is the best way to give your jeans a redying process?

ideas? suggestions? comments?

[ericpnyc]

If you garment dye jeans they will come out looking like solid twill pants. The problem is you're dyeing the weft yarns(horizontal white ones) in addition to the warp yarns(vertcal) all the same color. What gives denim it's look is the white yarn mixed with the indigo yarn

[thedenimdude]

is overdyeing the same thing as "tinting"?

I have heard some companies use this term on their washes.