Use the tea dyeing method to give a new look to kitchen towels, T-shirts and any other fabric items without much hassle and expense. Tea cannot radically change the color of white fabric, but it helps to hide light spots and give things an old look. The tea method is suitable for everyone who has the opportunity to boil water.

Steps

Part 1

Remove tea bags from packages and cut the threads.  Expand the packaging of each bag and cut the threads with scissors.

Boil a large pot of water with salt.  There should be enough water in the pan so that you can immerse and freely move the cloth in it. Add salt to the water and place the pan on the stove. Turn on a strong fire and bring the water to a boil.

1. Brew tea in water.  After boiling, remove the pan from the heat and place tea bags in the water. Let the tea brew so that it fully renders color. In most cases, this will take at least 15 minutes.

   • The longer the tea is infused, the more saturated the color of water and colored fabric will be. Before placing the fabric, make sure that you are comfortable with the color of the water.

   Part 2

   Immerse the cloth in water

   1. Wash or dampen the cloth.  By the time of painting, the fabric should be wet. Wash previously used cloth to get rid of stains and dirt. If you are using a new cloth, soak it in advance with water and then wring it out.

      • Tea can only be dyed with natural fibers such as cotton, silk, linen and wool. All synthetic fabrics like polyester are not suitable for this type of dyeing.
      • Before painting, the fabric should be wrung out, but not dried.

   2. Remove the bags and place the cloth in water.  If the tea has already colored the water in the desired color, then carefully remove all the bags from it. They will no longer be useful. Place a damp cloth in the pan and make sure it is completely under water.

      • Use a wooden spoon or other tool to distribute the cloth in the pan and submerge completely.
      • Some sections of tissue will begin to float. Submerge them under water with a spoon.

   3. Leave the fabric in solution for at least one hour. After immersing all the tissue in the pan, leave it in solution for at least 60 minutes. The longer you hold the fabric in tea, the more saturated the color will become.

      • You can leave the fabric in solution overnight to make sure the color is saturated.
      • It is recommended to periodically stir the fabric so that the color is evenly distributed on its surface.
      • You can occasionally remove the fabric from the solution and check the color. It is important to understand that dry tissue will turn out to be lighter than wet, so sometimes it takes more time than it seems at first glance.

   Part 3

   Rinse and dry the cloth

   1. Rinse and leave the cloth in cold water with vinegar.  After the fabric has dyed the desired color, remove it from the tea solution. Rinse quickly in cold water and then leave for 10 minutes in a container of cold water. Add some vinegar to the water to fix the color.

      • If you are concerned about the tea smell of the fabric, wash it by hand with a mild detergent to get rid of the smell.

I have been making different dolls for about two years now. Not a long time for the master. But I already have my secrets. I will share one of them with you.

Any craftswoman who is going to sew dolls asks herself questions:

1. From what material to sew the body of the pupa.

The answer is: there are several options. You can buy ready-made linen, calico or knitwear. There are a lot of such fabrics in online stores. A huge minus of such purchases is that they seriously hit the wallet. Increase the cost of finished work if you sew to order. And the quality of the fabric (I'm talking about knitwear) is sometimes very disappointing.

What to do: Buy regular calico. Yes, the most ordinary one. In doing so, pay particular attention to tissue density. Coarse calico should be very dense. Otherwise, the seams on the pupa will creep, the packing will not be even and the pupa will be sad) We do not need this! We need funny dolls!

Such, for example!

2. the question “But calico is white as snow. And we need a doll with a gentle tan on the “skin”, and not a white moth! ”

I answer: We will tint calico. And here we begin to wander around the Internet in search of an answer: how to tint calico. I will tell you a secret: I tried many options at work. There are many recipes. Different and not perfect!

What to do:

1. Tint small pieces of fabric. About 70X70 cm. So the fabric will be better dyed and there will be less ugly stains on it. (they will be with this coloring, but less)

2. Be sure to wash the fabric in a very plentiful solution of laundry soap. This is important for staining. For example, I leave the fabric for the night.

3. In a large pot (5 liters for me) we pour half of cold water, instant coffee 4 tablespoons and 1 tablespoon of salt. We take the cheapest coffee. It is he who paints perfectly. Guess why? Yes) It contains more dyes, probably.

I take one.

The water boiled. Put the cloth in the pan. Cook for 20 minutes over low heat. You can leave the cloth after that for 30 minutes in a saucepan. The tone of the fabric will be more saturated.

4. We get the fabric. Rinse. We hang out evenly. Sushim. Ironing. Done!

This is for comparison. Coarse calico ordinary and tinted by this method.

You can work with paint on the fabric. Then it will turn out like this.

Create and everything will work out.

Methods of dyeing fabric in flesh colors for sewing TILDS

Tissue Dyeing - Manganese

Very persistent staining. Things painted with potassium permanganate were washed many times and the color does not wash off. Ikeevskaya White Lenda was used

Very little manganese was poured into the warm water from the tap; the solution turned out to be dark cherry in color. Mix well to dissolve. Put pieces of cloth. I got it right away, after 1,3,6,10,20 minutes, then after 1,2,3 hours (I didn’t forget to stir).

Another double pieces, stained for 1 and 2 hours, dipped in a solution of turmeric. Then it dried, ironed and decorated everything on a sheet. And here's what happened:

Manganese gives a good color, and with turmeric you can make it a little yellower, it turns out pretty. :) Do not forget to wear gloves when painting and stir the fabric in the solution for uniform staining.

Fabric Dyeing - COFFEE

Used soluble pele in a red jar.
   Brewed with boiling water (2 options - 1.5 teaspoons per 200 ml of boiling water and 3 teaspoons per 200 ml of boiling water), mixed well to dissolve. Put pieces of cloth. I got it right away, after 1,3,6,10 and 20 minutes (I didn’t forget to stir). I dried it, ironed it, and then decorated everything on a sheet. And here's what happened:

The colors turned out good, bright, warm. In reality, the gradient from piece to piece is better visible. Although this scan is closest to the original. Where coffee is thicker, the color is a bit more saturated.

In the third version with turmeric coffee. Oh, and a vigorous thing! :) With her, she concluded this - if the fabric turned out with a gray tint (it can also be from coffee or tea) and I want to make it a little warmer, more yellow, then after staining in tea / coffee you need to quickly dip the fabric in a solution of turmeric. Dry, see - if yellow is not enough, then dip again. Because when you are in a solution with turmeric for a long time, the fabric becomes very yellow in color, and if you do it this way quickly, you get a neat tint in yellow. Yes, and don’t forget to wear gloves when painting!

Fabric Dyeing - TEA

I needed to dye the fabric in a flesh-colored shade for my needlework. I tried different methods and as a result, whole "color cards" were compiled - a useful and necessary thing in needlework. :)
   Today I'll show you what happened with tea. Used the "Princess Nuri Alpine" packaged.
   At home there was Ikeevskaya white Lenda. It is a dense cotton, well suited for sewing bodies for toys like Tilda.
   Tea was brewed and insisted for 5 minutes under the lid (2 options - 2 bags per 200 ml of water and 4 bags per 200 ml of water), squeezed the bags, threw them away, dipped the fabric into the tea leaves. Then immediately or after 1.3.6 minutes, the fabric was taken out, rinsed in cool water and dried, laid out on a towel. And then she ironed and looked what would happen.
   She also experimented with pure turmeric and added to tea.
   I registered the result in such a tablet:

Scan turned out closest to the original. :) Unpainted fabric is highlighted in red.

For uniform staining do not forget to stir and move the fabric. Otherwise, tea will settle to the bottom (and turmeric too) and stains will appear on the fabric. For samples, I did not particularly need this, so my tissues are partially striped. :)

Before, I once only thought a couple of times about the fact that you can dye the fabric at home.

Somehow it was no reason.

Although, now I don’t really need it (no, I dyed the lace a couple of times with tea leaves но), but one of my readers is fond of the Tilda doll, and for her she dyes fabrics at home, and even with natural dyes.

I was very glad when she kindly provided a workshop on dyeing fabrics.

How you can dye a fabric, how to dye a fabric for tilde and how to dye a white fabric - you will find the detailed answer below for all these questions.

Materials:
  Flax cuts - 3 pcs.;
  Ground coffee - 1 tbsp. spoon;
  Ground cinnamon - 1 tbsp. spoon;
Onion peel - 2 presses.

Any craftswoman knows how important it is to have fabrics of different colors and shades on hand: when the choice is great, you can easily choose the material for any idea. Here, dyes come to the rescue - not only artificial, but also natural. Ordinary cinnamon, ground coffee and onion husks will help us to create fabric of interesting shades.

How and how to dye the fabric at home:

1. First, try to dye a piece of flax with cinnamon. The fabric dyed with this seasoning is especially loved by the craftswomen who sew tilda toys. The fact is that cinnamon gives the fabric a very delicate shade, and in the future this fabric can be used to create doll faces. For coloring we take light flax - on it the effect of coloring will be better visible.
  So, put a spoonful of cinnamon in a pan, fill it with two glasses of water and bring to a boil. As soon as the liquid boils, we put in it a piece of tissue and cook for 10 minutes.

2. After 10 minutes, remove the flax from the water with cinnamon, rinse under cold running water and dry. We get a beige fabric with an interesting gingerbread tint.

3. Now try to dye the fabric with coffee. Pour a tablespoon of ground coffee with two glasses of water and bring to a boil. Then we put in it a prepared section of flax and cook for 10 minutes, as is the case with cinnamon.

4. After 10 minutes, we take out a cloth from coffee water, rinse thoroughly in cold water and dry it. The color of the coffee gave a similar color, but after cooking in cinnamon, the fabric looks more pinkish, and after brewing in coffee - more brown.

5. Onion husk do a little different. Fill it with two glasses of water, bring to a boil and boil the liquid for 15 minutes, until we get colored water. Only now can we put a piece of fabric in the water. Cook it with onion husks for 10 minutes.

6. We take a piece of flax from the water, rinse and dry. We have got a flax of saturated sand color.

As a result, we see three cuts of fabric in new shades that we can use to sew delicate dolls or toys. A whole palette of fabrics can be obtained using natural dyes!

P.S. And I also want to add from myself that these skills in dyeing fabrics can be applied not only for tilde dolls, but also for other purposes. For example, I dyed white lace to a cream color using tea leaves. To do this, I brewed several tea bags of black tea (to make strong), and then soaked the lace in this liquid. Color can be varied by holding time 🙂

Thus, knowing a certain skill (not only dyeing fabric at home), you can apply it for different purposes!

An important issue for all Tilda seamstresses, where to get the fabric for the body? On the shelves of shops there are few fabrics of the right colors, because it is customary to sew Tilda in beige or mustard color, and what then? Very simple. Craftswomen came up with a convenient way out of this difficult situation, they began to dye the fabric. It can be painted in various ways and by various means. Today I will show a small instant fabric dyeing workshop, as well as tell you what you need to pay attention to avoid mistakes.

Which fabric to choose is up to you, it can be calico, cotton or linen, you choose the fabric depending on which doll you will sew. For painting, I bought a white calico. The photo above shows how it was stained with instant coffee, I liked the color, but in my opinion it was necessary to add a little more coffee, then the color would be even darker, another time I will take this fact into account.

And so, to begin with, a piece of fabric needs to be washed or soaked for 20-30 minutes, so that the fibers become loose and better absorb the paint.

While the fabric is soaked, you need to prepare a solution in which we will dye the fabric. To do this, you need salt and coffee.

You can buy coffee not expensive, I took a small can of 50 g. You need to boil water, pour a tablespoon of salt and 30-40 g of coffee, just do not pour coffee into boiling water, first screw the fire on the stove, otherwise the coffee will climb over the edge.

There should be enough water in the pan to cover the entire fabric. You need to cook it for 10-15 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly, so that the fabric is evenly dyed. After staining, rinse the fabric under cold water, and then smooth it well. You need to hang the fabric to dry in a tightened form, because if the fabric is not evenly dried or folded, smudges will remain. The big disadvantage of this painting is that any splash of water on the fabric stains, so dolls can not be washed. When the fabric dries it needs to be ironed thoroughly, I stroked it with a steamer, the fabric was a little damp and there were no stains except one place, which is also important to remember, when ironing the fabric, do not iron along the edge of the ironing board, I got a stain on the silhouette of the ironing boards, which means you need to iron only in the middle without going beyond the edges. If your iron leaks and a few drops fall on the fabric, a divorce cannot be avoided, be careful. But when working with fabric, there are no problems, do not be afraid to pick it up, it will not color them, but it will become a wonderful decoration for your doll.