How to paint jeans at home

Any of us have favorite things that we are sorry to part with. Even if the jeans, T-shirt or sweatshirt have already lost their original color or are decorated with spots, they still remain in our closet. But such things do not necessarily throw out or send to the dacha. They can still be reanimated. For example, jeans can be dyed, sewn on a T-shirt with a fabric applique, a sweater or a sweatshirt with leather insets. There are a lot of options here, and the choice is limited only by your imagination.
Today I will tell you how to paint jeans yourself. These recommendations will be useful not only to update old things, but also to turn ordinary models into trendy ones.

How to paint jeans with blue

If things have lost color, pouring out after repeated washing, to restore the original saturated shade will allow quite affordable household dye. Sell blue at any hardware store. Different manufacturers make it either in powder form or in liquid form. How to paint jeans with blue? No special technology exists. It's as simple as twice two.

In this case, you do not need to boil the tissue. It is enough to dip the jeans completely into the water at a temperature of 30 degrees and leave for a couple of hours. To keep the coloring longer, add a couple of tablespoons of salt, cooked, and then rinse thoroughly in a weak vinegar solution. Note that blue is not the most suitable color, and the thing will surely shed. In addition, after several washings, it will wash off, and the procedure will have to be repeated.

Special Tools

If you want to achieve a more permanent color, use paints for fabrics. Dylon products are not bad. Well behave in the sock and aniline dyes. For painting, the thing should be boiled in an aqueous solution with salt. When rinsing, the same table vinegar is used.

Use a wide dish, in which the thing is placed completely, so that the fabric is painted evenly. The best thing for this purpose is an aluminum basin or a laundry tank. During boiling, the solution should be stirred occasionally, so that the stains on the fabric do not form.

The correct proportions are indicated on the dye package. Try to comply with the desired dosage, otherwise it will be very difficult to remove excess.

Do not forget that the dye settles on the walls of the dishes. Therefore, at the end of the process, it must be thoroughly washed with a hard sponge with trisodium phosphate.

To buy dyes for a fabric today it is possible not only in economic supermarkets, but also in the shops that sell materials for creativity.

How to paint jeans with the help of "potassium permanganate"

Many of you are familiar with the word "varenka". Peak popularity of this denim fell in the mid-eighties. But today the designers again return to the podium jackets, blousons, shirts, skirts and trousers with this original design. Do you want to have the same fashionable outfit? Then advice on how to dye jeans "potassium permanganate", you will come in handy.

In this case, there is no need to boil a thing. A mixture of potassium permanganate (100 g) and table vinegar with a strength of 9% (150 ml), reacting with hydrogen peroxide, brightens the tissue.

First, the jeans are treated with the first compound. Then the hydroperite tablets are ground into a powder, water is added and a pattern is fixed using a sponge with a sponge.

Now a little about how to apply the drawing better. Now a combination of strong rubbing with light (actually white) specks of a small size is fashionable. You can get these with a hard brush and metal mesh. The technology is very simple. First dab the brush into the composition, then spray it onto the fabric through the mesh.

Jeans "varenka" - the traditional way

This technology in Russia is known since the birth of the cooperative movement. It should be noted that this secret was known not only to novice businessmen. Any self-respecting mod was aware of how to paint jeans at home.

Use for this purpose the usual "Whiteness" in the amount of one glass per bucket of water. First, you need to twist the jeans properly and fix them with elastic bands. Then they are completely lowered into a bucket of hot water and boiled for about fifteen minutes. In this case, you need to make sure that your jeans do not come up.

The pattern turns out to be quite large. If you want to get a drawing in the form of divergent circles, use the same technique as in batik. The whitening composition is poured into already hot water. Unfortunately, this method has a huge minus - a pungent smell of bleach.