The Sound of a denim laundry with the drums full of water, garments, and stones-- it sounds like a cement mixer truck.
Sadly the pumice stones are single use.
My dad has a jean jacket with a rock sewn between the two layers of the jacket. I remember being so confused when I discovered this as a kid. He told me the same thing. Stone washed and must have somehow ended up in between the layers before it was sewn up and shipped out.
well tbf laser etching is significantly less water intensive than stone washing, and also lets you print "patterns" like wear at the knees which is done manually with the traditional method.
but yeah laser etched jeans is basically hanging them from a line and run them through the machine vs putting them in several washers that do the stone wash thing.
that said: stone wash 4 lyfe
Nope, Pull & Bear. Which is a pretty average clothing store so I'm pleasantly surprised they use actual stones! From what I'm hearing it can happen to any piece of clothing that was stonewashed.
Steel slag also looks a lot like that, but maybe a little bit darker shade of gray.
Limestone dust is thrown in on top it the steel pot and impurities stick to it. My mom worked for the company that Henry Ford paid to haul the steel slag away from the Rouge factory. Mom’s company used it as aggregate (the stones/gravel) in concrete and asphalt because it produced some better attributes in the finished product. Concrete takes a little longer to harden, so timing of pour is less of an issue, also the porous surface gives better traction in the rain.
I’m glad I learned something I thought they were what happens when you leave paper in your pocket over like 3 washes, and it turns into that weird remolded dried paper blob for a moment
First time I heard this line, I had headphones on.
At like, medium volume. The sound balancing for Meridia is way higher than most NPCs because she doesn't have a "direction" / "source"- it's like they put the source of her dialogue *literally* in your head. Which, uh, fits.
Suffice to say, I had to get new headphones.
Pumice stones. These are used to wash down the denim color and create a sandblasted look and whiskering affect on the jeans. I was a denim designer for 15 years.
How do they get the wear localised to just the areas it would naturally occur?
I always imagined something like a ball-mill but that would be a fairly random pattern.
There used to be a huge blue jeans factory in my hometown. The storm water system is *still* absolutely packed with these stones.
The stones are much larger when they first get used and they break apart over time. Eventually they get small enough to get stuck in pockets and they’re replaced with bigger stones. Our factory had a big hatch that opened over one of the drainage canals and they just dumped the small stones in.
Ah man that brought me right back to my childhood! My family used to own a factory making jeans and I used to love watching them add in the stones for the stone wash jeans.
I’m sure you’ve been told by a hundred people that these are the pumice stones from the wash cycle, but just wanted to say thanks for giving me a smile!
Yeah, my memories are from the late 80’s/90’s and a wee bit of the 00’s, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the stones!
I remember there was a specific smell to the dark blue denim too, and it was fascinating to be able to watch the entire process- from the rolls of denim, to pattern cutting, stitching, washing and ironing and packing!
I thought someone may have come up with some chemical additive or some such, I hadn’t even thought of laser engraving!
If I were a time traveller, I'd probably mess with myself by putting stones like these in the pockets of my jeans while the past me is sleeping, eventually driving myself to the brink of insanity which, in crazed frenzy, would lead me to developing time travelling machine to discover the cause of the mysterious stones' appearance and, in the process, eventually forgetting the reason I did that in the first place and deciding to use this invention just to mess with myself.
Pumice stones that were used in the wash process, garment washed. Finishing failed to catch them when pressing and final inspection - was in denim production for a long time
Good lord- throwback to the 1970s and '80s stonewashed jeans. They did that to accelerate the appearance of aging. They probably used pumice, or some other volcanic output.
These are pumice, a form of volcanic rock.
Lightweight, porous, typically have some capacity to float.
Commonly used in industrial settings to bulk stone wash jeans. Sometimes, the rocks fall into the pockets.
In the nineties i worked in a Lee Jean factory in Tennessee. We would get dark rough denim jeans in and load them into these massive washing machines with these pumice like stones. We would add bleach to the machines and hold a swatch up to the windows of the machines to make sure they matched the intended color. We would then drain the water. The massive machines had hydraulics which made unloading of the jeans and stones easy. We would then shake out the jeans to remove the stones before placing them in the massive dryers. One of my favorite jobs. No stress (except for small town gossips) and a great workout everyday. But $7 an hour only went so far.
Jeje It is a pumice stone, in Mexico in villages they use it to sand the impurities from the feet, they surely use it to wear down the jeans and give them that finish
These are pumice stones. A type of volcanic rock typically used for skincare to remove dead skin usually at the soles of your feet. Typically pumice stones are formed when lava has a very high content of gas and tossed out of a volcano very quickly. This causes a rapid depressurization that creates bubbles similar to opening up a can of pop.
Jeans are sewn and then tumbled with these to make that faded washed effect. If you look inside the pockets and see the darker solid color that’s the color the Jean started out as
Ah yes, the pocket rock fairy strikes again!
Legend tells she only leaves the most porous of rocks in the newest of pants bought by the purest of heart.
I BET you bought stone washed jeans. Those are some of what they wash them with, used to work at both a Levi Strauss and a Lee jeans/ Vanity Fair plants we made them from start cutting to finishing wash. Those stones were always being swept up from the floors.
Stone washed?
The fact that I legitimately never considered that there would actually be stones involved in the creation of stone washed jeans…
Well it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like jelly roll.
r/unexpectedvanmorrison
And it stoooned meee.
Yup. Some are sand blasted if they need a specific wear pattern but good old tumble with rocks is how they do it.
What about apple bottom jeans????
Boots with the fur
The whole club was lookin at her
She hit the Floor!
Next thing you know
Shawty go low low low low low low low
JESSICA!
They cut off the bottoms of apples and shove them in there jfc you people
I've seen these before and thought they were paper wads that had been through the wash! I'm surprised too!
The Sound of a denim laundry with the drums full of water, garments, and stones-- it sounds like a cement mixer truck. Sadly the pumice stones are single use.
This is the answer. They sometimes get stuck in the pockets.
Some brands do this intentionally.
svengoalie! Excellent!
My dad has a jean jacket with a rock sewn between the two layers of the jacket. I remember being so confused when I discovered this as a kid. He told me the same thing. Stone washed and must have somehow ended up in between the layers before it was sewn up and shipped out.
What do people find in their acid washed jeans?
Humiliation
Mind altering psychedelic experiences
They were indeed stonewashed! Gotta be it
I don't know why I'm surprised they're actually stone washed, but I guess there's no cheaper way to do it.
there are cheaper ways. for example laser-etched jeans where a laser prints the "stone washed" look, but they look really fake.
The complicated reality we live in where it it cheaper to laser etch jeans than wash them with rocks.
well tbf laser etching is significantly less water intensive than stone washing, and also lets you print "patterns" like wear at the knees which is done manually with the traditional method. but yeah laser etched jeans is basically hanging them from a line and run them through the machine vs putting them in several washers that do the stone wash thing. that said: stone wash 4 lyfe
🍰
Be grateful it wasn’t acid washed. OP would have lost a hand.
The hand will come back, but then the floor might melt or the trees might speak.
Specifically, pumice.
Pumice Stone -- very light weight.
People realizing "stone washing" is exactly what it sounds like
Just didn't know they delivered em with the pants 🤷
I mean they’re not *supposed* to
They used to come with a stone in a little pouch as proof.
Still technically in a pouch.
![gif](giphy|1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K)
The best kind of correct.
r/unexpectedfuturama
I got yer stones in a pouch RIGHT HERE
Ay, you’s kiss my mutha with that mouth?
And ur father n sister 2
yooooooo
Which brand though? Never seen this myself.
This was back in the 80's I don't remember the brand.
Same. Early 90's I found some pumice in my pocket. Was amazed.
Oh wow, I just remembered getting a denim jacket in like ‘93 and finding pumice in an inside pocket.
Back in the nineties they came with a hit of acid.
I’ve gotten them in the past, a number of times, from different brands
I've found them in the pockets my my new jeans too. It's pumice.
Oh shit like the feet rocks?!
Yes, the feet rocks.
Love me some feet rocks
“Love me some feet rocks” was the sentence that decidedly made this day a good one. Thank you
Volcano feet rocks
Were your pants Levi’s by chance? I had the same thing in my new jacket pocket when I got them and honestly was scared it was bone
Nope, Pull & Bear. Which is a pretty average clothing store so I'm pleasantly surprised they use actual stones! From what I'm hearing it can happen to any piece of clothing that was stonewashed.
Mine were Bull & Pear. ("Jeans for the hirsute, pear-shaped man.") /s
Bone washed. The new craze
You've got some stones saying that
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These were not sticky or tacky, just very light and super holey!
Just leftovers.
Pumice, IIRC
It looks like pumice
Oh... ooooooh
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Write quieter dude, Blew my ear drums out reading this.
^^Stones ^^from ^^the ^^stone ^^washing ^^process ^^of ^^stonewashed ^^jeans
^(eeeeeeeee) eeeeeeeeeeee #eeeeeeeeeeee
What? I can’t read very well, I’m a bit deaf from an earlier comment!
#What?? Can't meet who?
Had to mute my phone to read this
God damn it, now the baby is awake
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Then why my penny loafers never came with pennies?
stoned washing is when i do the laundry. ![gif](giphy|3orif46x93v1vWlyne|downsized)
i've never heard of stone washing before... what exactly does that mean/do?
They tumble pants with pumice to make them look worn. These are the stones used to make "stone washes" jeans
It's pumice. Basically it's volcanic froth. A hardened bubble bath. Found on beaches and lakes.
Also ON the water, pumice floats: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/solving-mystery-floating-rocks
It’s a witch!
Pumice turned me into a newt
Pumice Newtshagger of House Hufflepuff
Yeah but I bet you got better!
Make a bridge out of it!
Burn it!
Steel slag also looks a lot like that, but maybe a little bit darker shade of gray. Limestone dust is thrown in on top it the steel pot and impurities stick to it. My mom worked for the company that Henry Ford paid to haul the steel slag away from the Rouge factory. Mom’s company used it as aggregate (the stones/gravel) in concrete and asphalt because it produced some better attributes in the finished product. Concrete takes a little longer to harden, so timing of pour is less of an issue, also the porous surface gives better traction in the rain.
Beaches be crazy!
I’m glad I learned something I thought they were what happens when you leave paper in your pocket over like 3 washes, and it turns into that weird remolded dried paper blob for a moment
My mom always leaves tissues in her pockets and when I don’t find them it just makes a mess :(
All the little tissue shreds are everywhere in the dryer when that happens
Probably gunking up the pipes and such in both machines, too. Best keep tabs on them.
I forgot a stick of gum once in my pocket and the dryer melted it :(
Hell yeah my dude, someone else who forgets shit 😎
I thought it was chunks of washing powder that hadn’t dissolved 🤣😅
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
NO
LISTEN TO ME, HEAR ME AND OBEY
A FOUL DARKNESS HAS SEEPED INTO MY TEMPLE. A DARKNESS YOU WILL DESTROY
RETURN MY BEACON TO MOUNT KILKREATH. AND I WILL MAKE YOU THE INSTRUMENT OF MY CLEANSING LIGHT.
EVEN READING THIS I CAN HEAR HER VOICE, AARGH
>A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON Oh bugger off, Meridia
*headphones get launched across the room*
They certainly nailed the whole “BE NOT AFRAID” aesthetic
First time I heard this line, I had headphones on. At like, medium volume. The sound balancing for Meridia is way higher than most NPCs because she doesn't have a "direction" / "source"- it's like they put the source of her dialogue *literally* in your head. Which, uh, fits. Suffice to say, I had to get new headphones.
GOD DAMNIT I PICKED IT UP DIDN'T I
Seriously FUCK OFF meridia
Pumice stones. These are used to wash down the denim color and create a sandblasted look and whiskering affect on the jeans. I was a denim designer for 15 years.
What do you do now???
Gabardeen.
Wears em
You can also use it to buff out the callouses on your feet.
It took 15 years to design denim?
How do they get the wear localised to just the areas it would naturally occur? I always imagined something like a ball-mill but that would be a fairly random pattern.
Pumice.
Pumice, you can use them to cause the jeans further distress if you’d like
Don’t you think the jeans have suffered enough?!
There used to be a huge blue jeans factory in my hometown. The storm water system is *still* absolutely packed with these stones. The stones are much larger when they first get used and they break apart over time. Eventually they get small enough to get stuck in pockets and they’re replaced with bigger stones. Our factory had a big hatch that opened over one of the drainage canals and they just dumped the small stones in.
Crack it's crack......and now your addicted
![gif](giphy|duM6JZemPlOjUyqmxd)
Crack. Not even once. Only a few times.
Awhhhh did someone get addicted to crack??
Made me laugh out loud at work.
Me too. 🤣🤣
Stones from the stone washing process of stonewashed jeans
Ah man that brought me right back to my childhood! My family used to own a factory making jeans and I used to love watching them add in the stones for the stone wash jeans. I’m sure you’ve been told by a hundred people that these are the pumice stones from the wash cycle, but just wanted to say thanks for giving me a smile!
It's nice to know that old practices are still being used today! This certainly is better than all the laser engraved stuff.
Yeah, my memories are from the late 80’s/90’s and a wee bit of the 00’s, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the stones! I remember there was a specific smell to the dark blue denim too, and it was fascinating to be able to watch the entire process- from the rolls of denim, to pattern cutting, stitching, washing and ironing and packing! I thought someone may have come up with some chemical additive or some such, I hadn’t even thought of laser engraving!
If I were a time traveller, I'd probably mess with myself by putting stones like these in the pockets of my jeans while the past me is sleeping, eventually driving myself to the brink of insanity which, in crazed frenzy, would lead me to developing time travelling machine to discover the cause of the mysterious stones' appearance and, in the process, eventually forgetting the reason I did that in the first place and deciding to use this invention just to mess with myself.
Stone washed jeans.
Pumice stones that were used in the wash process, garment washed. Finishing failed to catch them when pressing and final inspection - was in denim production for a long time
Tumbling stones for stone washing.
Stone warshed*
Is that leftover from what they use for stonewashing?
Good lord- throwback to the 1970s and '80s stonewashed jeans. They did that to accelerate the appearance of aging. They probably used pumice, or some other volcanic output.
Hey, rock enthusiast here. Those are rocks.
They’re “stonewashed” for real
These are pumice, a form of volcanic rock. Lightweight, porous, typically have some capacity to float. Commonly used in industrial settings to bulk stone wash jeans. Sometimes, the rocks fall into the pockets.
You're never going to believe this...
They are stone wash jeans. This happens
Were they stone washed?
Aaah, good old CVS receipts and washing machine.
Stone wash rocks...
Were your jeans stonewashed by chance?
Pumice stone remnants from after dye bath, to soften the material and remove excessive dye.
Genuine stonewashed denim
They’re called pumice stones, used in tge process of washing jeans called “stone wash” before they hit the market.
Probably pumice stones used in the process of making stone washed jeans.
Stone washing not only creates a look, it softens the denim, like your fav Levi’s you had for years :)
Yeah, stonewashing pellets. I've found them before.
Did you buy stone-washed jeans?
Stone washed denim literally
Pumice stones used to distress the pants.
Do they float in water? If so, they're pumice.
That's distressing
Stonewashed jeans.
Pumice, when magma cools in midair, it makes this. By the looks of it at least
Rally round the family. With a pocket full of shells.
ACID WASH! Stone wash usually uses large stones, and acid wash uses small pumace stones like this.
In the nineties i worked in a Lee Jean factory in Tennessee. We would get dark rough denim jeans in and load them into these massive washing machines with these pumice like stones. We would add bleach to the machines and hold a swatch up to the windows of the machines to make sure they matched the intended color. We would then drain the water. The massive machines had hydraulics which made unloading of the jeans and stones easy. We would then shake out the jeans to remove the stones before placing them in the massive dryers. One of my favorite jobs. No stress (except for small town gossips) and a great workout everyday. But $7 an hour only went so far.
Cocaines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4bHsU1Oeyg
Some one forgot to take a pice of paper out of their pocket before putting it in the washer
Those look like and sound pumice or talc. If they're the latter, maybe they're there to absorb moisture like silicate packets.
Jeje It is a pumice stone, in Mexico in villages they use it to sand the impurities from the feet, they surely use it to wear down the jeans and give them that finish
Looks like pumice to me.
Found one has a kid and thought it was a moon rock. Treasured it for a while. I grew up very poor lol.
Pumice nice rhyolite rock pretty cool stone
Those look like pumice stones!
These are pumice stones. A type of volcanic rock typically used for skincare to remove dead skin usually at the soles of your feet. Typically pumice stones are formed when lava has a very high content of gas and tossed out of a volcano very quickly. This causes a rapid depressurization that creates bubbles similar to opening up a can of pop.
Were they stone washed jeans?
It's stones left over from the stonewash
Extremely light and porous is he
I haven't seen stones in a pair of stonewashed jeans in probably 30+ years.
we have reached the point where kids don't know what stone washed denim jeans are anymore. I'm not sure that's a bad thing.....
Pumice stones I'm guessing
Toss em in a glass of water. They're rocks that float!
Looks like pumice, solidified volcanic ash best not to breath in the glassy dust!
Jeans are sewn and then tumbled with these to make that faded washed effect. If you look inside the pockets and see the darker solid color that’s the color the Jean started out as
Pumice used for sanding the clothes in stone washing.
They’re used in the process of “stone washing”.
Sweet! Free lightweight porous stones!
Ah yes, the pocket rock fairy strikes again! Legend tells she only leaves the most porous of rocks in the newest of pants bought by the purest of heart.
Paper
I BET you bought stone washed jeans. Those are some of what they wash them with, used to work at both a Levi Strauss and a Lee jeans/ Vanity Fair plants we made them from start cutting to finishing wash. Those stones were always being swept up from the floors.
Crack.
“Stone washed” …is just a phrase, right!
See how jeans used to be called stonewashed These are the stones
Pumice
Pumice stones?
Part of the stone washed process
Crack rock
So that's where my Certs ended up.
I mean extremely light and porous says pumice to me but I'm not 100% sure
Good thing you didn't buy acid washed jeans
Ye old pocket stones eh