Paint for fabric. At home, update your clothes

Often, washing things with a washing machine and using various bleaching agents helps fade the tissues. The most vulnerable are cotton products. They eventually lose their original brightness, become pale and dull. However, many synthetic fibers suffer the same problem. To refresh them and give things a second life, you can paint them in dry cleaners or at home. Typically, in such cases, an aniline paint is used to stain the fabric.

Coloring clothes at home is the easiest way to update your wardrobe without serious financial costs. You can easily paint the house cotton and woolen fabrics - the fibers that make up their composition, absorb the paint well. With synthetic tissues the situation is more complicated. You can not paint them at home with aniline dyes. They should be attributed to dry cleaning, where special paints and rather complex technologies are used.

Paint for the fabric is quite diverse . At home, both powder and liquid are successfully used, which are sold in hardware stores. Each package of such a dye is supplied with detailed instructions. Read carefully before painting. It clearly states what proportions should be observed when the paint is diluted in water, what should be the maximum weight of the fabric or clothing, and so on.

When starting to work, do not forget to put on rubber gloves - otherwise you will not surprise the people around many times with colorful palms.

Many Russian producers produce various dyes. They are good They process fabrics and retain color for a long time. For example, "Lukar" is an aniline paint for fabric. At home, with its help, you can paint woolen and kapron fabrics, except nitron and lavsan. It can even be used for painting fur and leather. All this is indicated on the packaging, in addition, it must indicate the color.

"Universal" (produced by "Technohim", the city of St. Petersburg) is a paint for fabrics in home conditions suitable for flax, cotton or viscose.

So, let's get to work. Fill the pelvis with water (the amount is indicated in the instructions) and gradually, constantly stirring, pour the dye into it. If you need to paint several things, it will be more appropriate to do this one by one in order to avoid overfilling the container. Do not try to paint things in the washing machine - washing its walls will be very difficult.

Check that the fabric is not caked and there are no wrinkles on it, otherwise bright spots will appear on it after staining. Hold the thing in the basin (stirring occasionally) until it becomes slightly darker than required. Having dried up, it will lighten up. Then rinse the product several times, adding a little vinegar to the last rinse water.

As you can see, the paint for the fabric at home is easy enough to use. We got acquainted with the easiest way of staining. At home, you can paint a fabric or product with a divorce, but we'll talk about this next time.

Paints for fabrics, whose price ranges from one hundred to three hundred rubles (foreign equivalents are more expensive), will help you to update your wardrobe and save money.