Coloring fabrics at home

Favorite thing has lost its appeal and faded, or just want to experiment with old T-shirts and jeans? There is a wonderful solution - dyeing fabrics at home. Many people are interested in the question, how to do it right? In the hardware stores you can buy special dyes for all types of fabrics. In addition, you can use funds that are worth a penny and are always at hand - spices, berries, fresh vegetables, tea, blue and others. Read more about different dyes and the procedure for proper staining in our article.

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A number of rules for coloring fabrics with natural

tools. First of all, I would like to understand the nuances that must be taken into account before painting the fabric in blue at home. Namely:

• Fabric, thread or clothing should be perfectly clean.
• Before painting, a thing should be boiled in clean water with the addition of soda ash. For silk in the penultimate rinse, apply ammonia 0.5 g per 1 liter of water.
• Use glassware( fireproof) or enameled( without chipping).The stick for stirring is either wooden or plastic.
• To better fix the dye on the fabric, sometimes the tissue should be kept in the alum solution. This process mistress called mordant. The tissue is boiled in this solution for up to 30 minutes, after which it is removed and not squeezed into the dye. It is not necessary to boil - you can simply soak the cloth in the mordant.

Important! In addition to various alum, zinc sulphate or copper is used for mordant, and natural home remedies - vinegar, sauerkraut juice. Formic acid and ash from birch firewood can also be used. Prepare the mordant with a calculation of 1-10 g per liter of water. For every 100 g of yarn or fabric you will need at least 3 liters of mordant solution.

• The painting speed of the fabric will depend on the temperature of the water, the tissue itself and various additives in the color solution.
• Silk fabric or thread is also boiled in the color solution for up to one hour, like wool.
• Painting linen fabric at home, as well as viscose and cotton in hot water - on the contrary, slows down. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the water temperature does not exceed 85 degrees. At the end of painting such things, add salt( 2 tablespoons).
• The color solution in relation to the weight of the yarn( fabric) should be more than 20 times, because for good painting things should be in free "swimming".
• Salt and vinegar fix the paint, so the fabric will less shed. During the last rinse of things from any material, you always need to add a small amount of vinegar.
• Immediately after the dyeing procedure, things should be properly hung or laid out to dry. If this is done incorrectly, stains and stains can form on the fabric.
• Before painting a white shirt at home, it is necessary to test on a small piece, having passed all the technological processes.
• The room in which you are going to conduct the painting procedure should be well ventilated.

Important! You should consider allergies to plants that you will use as a dye. Some plants are poisonous, therefore, in order not to get a burn or bright spots of paint, use gloves.

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Types of fabrics that can be dyed:

• The most pliable fabric in this matter is of natural origin: silk, wool, linen, cotton.
• Mixed textile materials - semi-woolen products, semi-silk are quite dyed.
• Polyester tinted laboriously, and the result may not be as impressive. Fibers of this fabric are less absorbing paint, because of which the color of the product will be dull, and, most likely, it fades at the first wash after painting.

Important! If the jacket of a synthetic material has lost its color, then it is better to entrust it to the dry-cleaners. There, properly selected professional tools for painting, which require strict temperature and other conditions. At home, it is easy to carry out the procedure of painting cotton t-shirts, towels, dresses and skirts.

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What is the best way to paint the fabric?

For painting the fabric at home in any hardware store you can buy special paints for different types of canvas. They are pasty, in the form of powders and crystals. However, many are afraid to use "chemistry", because the product can be damaged, and instead of the original thing, just a rag for washing the floor.

At home, many natural dyes can be used very successfully - they are safe for both humans and the material, although not as intense as chemical dyes.

Natural dyes for fabrics:

• Brown shades give the bark of oak, onion husk, coffee, tea, henna, cinnamon and basma.
• Coloring the fabric in green at home will help the bark of poplar, spinach, bird cherry, sorrel, juniper berries, elderberry leaves, as well as green.
• With the help of natural coffee, you can get a black color.
• To make the thing red, use blueberry berries, beets, wolfberry leaves.
• Blue and blue color will present a sage, flowers of ivan-da-marya, seeds of quinoa, red cabbage, blackberries.
• Turmeric, bark of a wild apple-tree, celandine - for orange hues.
• Yellow paint - orange peel, bark and birch leaves, poplar buds, nettle roots, turmeric, zira, carrots, wormwood.

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How to choose a dye?

The correct choice of dye is determined by the material of the product and its color. How to determine the type of textiles?- It is necessary to pull one small thread across and along the fabric and set it on fire:

• Flax, cotton and rayon are burned well. You immediately feel the smell of burnt paper.
• Worst wool and natural silk. When burning a woolen thread, you will smell the burnt horn, and on its tip a caked ball is formed.

The color of matter is important when choosing a paint and its quantity. When painting the fabric at home in white with the conditions, the color of the product should be the same as indicated on the package. But with color clothing is more difficult - it can turn out ugly and dirty shade.

The purpose of the painting also affects the choice of the dye. In order to get light shades, you can resort to natural dyes - chemical ones are also suitable, but then they should be taken in small proportions.

Important! If the thing is washed and lost its former brightness, then it needs a smaller amount of dye to restore the color than for painting white things.

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Preparatory stage

In order to color the fabric brown at home, you will need:

• Textile.
• Deep capacitance.
• Wooden spatula or sticks.
• Dye.
• Water.
• Protective gloves.

Preparing textiles

Before painting, the product must be prepared:

• All clothing should be well washed and cleaned from stains.
• Old contamination should also be eliminated, because they can stand out against the general background, due to spoil the whole species. For these purposes, you can apply stain remover, good washing and ironing. Otherwise, if this is not done, the product may be unevenly colored.

Important! If the stains are not eliminated in any way, then choose only dark shades for painting. Light colors will not be able to paint over such spots.

• Also with the clothes that you are going to paint, all buttons and ornaments must be removed. They can become rusted and damaged.
• With new linen and cotton products, a layer of starch must be removed. For these purposes, they should be boiled for 20 minutes in a soda-soap solution, and after the procedure, thoroughly rinse the thing, since the remains of soda and soap can prevent staining.
• Woolen products rinse in the following solution - 2 tablespoons of ammonia in 12 liters of water.

Important! In the process of painting yarn, it is very important to ensure that it does not get tangled. To do this, it should be painted with individual coils, which must first be tied in several places. For convenience, the skeins can be strung on a piece of thin rope, so during the painting they can be easily turned.

Preparation of water and tanks

In the process of painting the fabric at home, preparatory work should be carried out not only with textiles, but also with a capacity for work:

• For aluminum and galvanized utensils, there is a rule - before the procedure it is necessary to remove all traces of scale.
• Capacity should be chosen the appropriate size. During painting, the product should not be wrinkled. It will absorb the paint well only if completely immersed in the color solution. If the dishes are too small, then there is a risk that the thing will be colored unevenly.
• To turn the fabric over during painting, prepare two wooden poles in advance. They must necessarily be strong, long and smooth, without any knots. Uneven wooden surface is able to hook the product and tear it.
• The water for the procedure is taken soft. Ideally, it is rain or melt water. However, if such water is not at your disposal, and you have only hard water, then you can soften it so - for 12 liters of water, add 1 tablespoon of soda.

Stages of painting

When all of the above is done, you can proceed to the direct painting of the product:

1. The very first thing you need to do is read the manufacturer's recommendations, which are indicated on the package with the dye.
2. Next - following the instructions, pour the paint in a small bowl, gradually adding water, stir it carefully to dissolve it.
3. Strain the coloring solution, pour it into the container that you are going to paint the product.
4. Dilute the dye with water so that it can completely cover your thing.
5. Place the container on the gas.
6. Immerse the product in the dye.
7. In order to color the fabric blue at home evenly, rotate the fabric in a circle using sticks or a spatula.
8. The product should be removed when it has a darker shade than you would like( after drying the fabric will become somewhat lighter).
9. If you want to get streaks on the fabric, the product should be twisted, as in wringing out, and secure with rubber rings.
10. The painted thing should be thoroughly rinsed in water so that after the last rinse the water remains clean.

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We paint things with natural dyes

When staining the fabric with natural dyes, it is advisable to adhere to the following rules:

• Before you start painting, you should test the natural remedy on a small cloth clutch.
• The selected raw material is filled with cold water in a 1: 2 ratio. Put on gas and bring to a boil, then immediately remove. Now it is necessary to let the future dye brew.

Important! The more time the raw material will be infused, the brighter and more saturated will the color become.

• Fabric should be prepared by immersing it in a fixing solution:
  1. for berries - half a glass of salt per 2 liters of water;
  2. for vegetables - water + vinegar in the ratio 4: 1.
• Now thing can be immersed in the dye. Keep it there until the desired shade is obtained. Do not forget that after drying the color will become a bit lighter.
• To avoid stains and stains, dry things on hangers.

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Useful tricks:

• Before weighing, weigh the product - this will enable you to accurately determine the required amount of dye.
• After staining with chemicals, the dishes in which the procedure was performed can not be used for cooking.
• For silk when rinsing, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to the water.
• For wool, dissolve the dye in hot water.
• For flax and jeans, add a little soda ash to the paint and only then dissolve it in water.
• If the cellulose cloth has not been painted unevenly, then dip it into hot water with the addition of a detergent. This will help slightly to level the color.
• If you are going to fix a thing, then it should be a rasp at the seams before painting.
• At the bottom of the container you can put a plank of wood so that clothes do not burn out.
• Woolen products on shoulders can not be dried. Because of this, they can stretch - just spread them on a flat surface.

Do not be afraid to experiment with old clothes that have lost their appearance, because the coloring of the fabric at home can give a lot of your things a second life!