You will need
- You need a quality fabric dye, a few different sized enameled pot, two wooden sticks or special tongs made of wood, salt and soda to soften the water, vinegar to fix the color on some fabrics.
Instruction
1
Before painting the thing, determine the tissue from which it is made, because the dyes are produced for each tissue your. To do this, combine information from tag information received from the firing of multiple threads. If the threads burn well, leaving a molten lump at the end, it is a natural fabric, but if melted, then synthetic. Be sure to buy paint that is suitable for your type of fabric. Never believe the seller, claiming that the dye will stain any fabric. Home pre try to paint a small piece of cloth in order not to get unexpected effect on the whole thing
2
Before the staining the thing you need to carefully wash and get stains, metal pieces of clothing to them. If the painted item has lining, it is necessary to rip in several places that the fabric didn't come up and evenly stained
3
Prepare dishes in which you paint things. Ideal for this procedure perfect clean enamel basin or pan. Water is better to take soft, if not, then soften hard water soda. To turn things better with wooden sticks.Dissolve the prepared dye in a small amount of boiled water in a shallow bowl. You should get a paste-like solution without lumps. Then add hot boiled water from calculation of a pint of water per package of dye. The resulting solution, strain and pour into a bowl for dyeing, pre-filled with warm water.
4
Prepared for staining thing soak in warm water, then wring out and straighten. It is necessary for more rapid and uniform staining of all tissue. Then dip it into the solution. To paint acted exactly the same, often turn the thing with a stick.
5
Painted the thing must be rinsed in warm water until until the rinse water is clear. Then rinse in cold water. Silk products it is better to rinse in a vinegar solution. Then things you need to carefully squeeze, straighten and dry, lay on a towel.
Note
If you are painting products from cotton, linen or artificial silk, it is necessary after soaking, leave the solution to boil. Fifteen minutes after boiling, pour in the dye solution of the salt at the rate of two tablespoons of salt per packet of dye and simmer for another thirty minutes. Then keep the stuff in solution even for half an hour and take them out. Let the dye drain out, and rinse thoroughly.
But when painting things from natural silk, after adding salt it is necessary to heat the solution for forty minutes. Then give him half an hour to stand up, take out the stuff and rinse.
Woolen garments require more careful painting, so in this case the salt solution was added a small amount of bite. After boiling, you must wait for complete cooling of the solution. Do not forget to constantly stir the fabric.
But when painting things from natural silk, after adding salt it is necessary to heat the solution for forty minutes. Then give him half an hour to stand up, take out the stuff and rinse.
Woolen garments require more careful painting, so in this case the salt solution was added a small amount of bite. After boiling, you must wait for complete cooling of the solution. Do not forget to constantly stir the fabric.