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 to be a grayish tint (it can also be from coffee or tea) and I want to make it a little warmer, yellower, 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 do not forget to wear gloves when you paint!

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 in 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, spread 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 plate:

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. 🙂

Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!

In the previous article, we prepared cherry bones for sewing a heating pad with our own hands, now we will dye the fabric in order to sew the doll, or rather, the fabric that will serve as the “skin” of the doll.

Of course, there is a ready-made flesh-colored fabric, but if you want the toy to have a pleasant aroma and special visible charm of handmade, as well as save your budget, you can dye the white fabric yourself with coffee. Especially if you have a lot of white fabric in stocks. The fabric is better to use cotton.

Cotton fabrics have good plasticity and are easy to process, the fabric does not crumble, is easily sewn and dyed. Before dyeing the fabric for tilde, it is better to wash it so that the fabric does not sit down later.

Dyeing fabric for a doll or toy

Now you can start staining. To dye the fabric in flesh color, we need ordinary black tea or instant coffee.

Pour hot water into a bowl, make coffee in it. The more instant coffee you put in water, the brown the shade of your fabric. in order to fix the color, add a spoonful of salt. Mix the mixture well so that no stains remain on the fabric.

Do not be afraid to experiment, add cinnamon for a smell.

Some needlewomen cook the fabric in a dye over low heat, however, to get a light flesh tint, it is enough to soak the fabric in the prepared water for 10 minutes.

To make the fabric dye evenly, it is better to paint with small cuts: 50 x 50 cm, and not with a whole canvas. Also, some craftsmen paint ready-made parts of the product, however, it is better not to do this: firstly, the cut-out parts may stretch or sit down, and secondly, the product may stain unevenly and be damaged.

We take out the fabric from the water, wring it out, and dry it in a straightened form. Do not hang the fabric on a rope or dryer, there will be stains. Iron the dried fabric and cut the doll’s body out of it.

Of course, the material painted in this way will not have a perfect even color and a tanned shade, but the product sewn from it will have its own visible handmade charm.

At times, in order to get a richer color, the craftswomen tint ready-made toys with a solution of coffee, cinnamon and PVA glue, then bake them in the oven, but this method is more suitable for toys - primitives, rather than Tilda's dolls.

Video: how to stain fabric with coffee.

Text prepared by: Veronica

Today, the Tilda doll is becoming more and more popular, which can be used not only for playing, but also for decorating the interior. And if you make a house in such a way, then it will become an excellent talisman of your house, able to protect it from everything bad. In addition, in the process of creativity, you can relax your soul and tune in to positive.

Do not forget that you can give your own made Tilda to your good friends, and believe me - this will be a great present. And do not think that a tilde can only be in the form of men. Not at all! You can give it the shape of all kinds of animals. The main thing in its creation is fantasy! And the colors can be original, if you decide to dye the fabric at home using natural dyes.

Features of the manufacture of Tilda dolls

As for the history of the appearance of these amazing dolls, then, most likely, our grandmothers created something similar even in childhood. But only in 1999, the Tild production was put on stream and they began to be used for decorating the room. When buying such a doll for decoration purposes, you can purchase a Tilda full of fragrant herbs that can fill your home with pleasant aromas.

When making such a doll, keep in mind that this work requires painstaking work. You must carefully stitch even the smallest details. Do not forget that thin arms and legs also need to be filled with padding polyester, and then carefully sewed. Pay attention to the seam, which traditionally runs in the center of the face. Try to make the halves of the head equal, otherwise the face will look asymmetrical.

If we talk about clothes, then it is usually sewn to the body.

This must be done very carefully so that the seams are not visible to the prying eye. If you want your doll to sit, then it is worth making several stitches under the knee. In this case, the doll’s pose will not look tense.

As for the seams, all parts of Tilda must be sewn together with a blind seam so that it looks whole. And as we already said, so that Tilda not only decorates your interior, but aromatizes it, you can put special sachets with aromatic herbs in the middle. Moreover, finely ground cinnamon or vanillin can be added to the packing.

You can fill Tilda with sea salt. But before you mix it with a filler, it is worth flavoring it. To do this, you can simply add a few drops of essential oil to the salt.

Another flavoring option is to add a small amount of chopped mint, lemon balm and other aromatic herbs to sea salt.

One of the features of the manufacture of these pupae is the light brown color of the parts.

Unfortunately, it is with him that most often difficulties arise, because choosing the right shade is rather difficult. And so today we will talk about how to dye the fabric in the right shade at home.

This can be done by adding the following ingredients to the water:

• Coffee,
• Zelenki.

And now we will consider the coloring technology using the presented ingredients.

How to dye fabric with tea

There is nothing complicated in the way of painting with tea. First of all, in this case, you need to weld a special solution. To do this, you need an enameled saucepan, a few tablespoons of brewed black tea and cold water.

We make the solution as follows:

1. Pour cold water into the pan. Pour a few tablespoons of tea there. Attention! The amount of tea will directly depend on what color you want to get in the end.
2. We put water with tea on fire and bring to a boil. At the same time, make sure that too much water does not boil away, because in this case you will not have anything to dye the fabric.

After the solution is ready, filter it through a two- or three-layer gauze. Add a little salt to the resulting liquid. This is done so that natural dyes are more strongly absorbed and practically not washed out.

To paint our future Tilda, you need to do this: just dip the fabric in water and boil in the solution for an hour and a half.

Attention! In the process of boiling, do not forget to periodically stir the fabric so that it does not become stained with stains. And one more thing: never dry the fabric in an upright position, since spots will definitely form at the place where the fabric comes into contact with the rope or clothespins.

How to dye a fabric with coffee

Before you start dyeing fabric for Tilda in this way, keep in mind that the doll after this procedure is likely to smell like coffee. You can give your Tilda the color of a light tan by preparing a solution of coffee, which should be applied to the fabric with an ordinary brush.

The solution in this case should be prepared as follows:

1. In half a glass of water, dissolve from three to five tablespoons of ground coffee. Attention! Coffee should be natural, not soluble, because otherwise it would be virtually impossible to predict the color of the fabric. By the way, if you wish, you can add half a teaspoon of vanillin to this solution to give the fabric an even more refined and multifaceted aroma. Also pay attention to the fact that the solution must be thoroughly filtered before use, as dark brown spots or stains may appear from coffee lumps on the fabric.
2. In order for the fabric to dye evenly, be sure to wash it thoroughly before dyeing with laundry soap.
3. Before dyeing the fabric, it is better to fully form all parts of Tilda's body. If the color is too saturated, then you can simply squeeze the part with a damp cloth or gauze. And then all the excess color will remain on it. And one more nuance: when drying, try to make sure that the fabric does not come into contact with other surfaces, since in places of contact the color will be less saturated.

How to dye a fabric with green paint

If you need to paint some details of your Tilda’s outfit in emerald color, then you can use the green brush for this.

A very simple and most affordable way of dyeing fabric intended for sewing Tilda dolls or any other is natural staining with tea.

How to dye a fabric for Tilda with tea

To do this, you will need:

• fabric from natural fibers (linen or cotton: calico, calico, cambric)
• dry tea leaves or tea bags for one-time tea leaves;
• water;
• laundry soap;
• salt;
• table vinegar;
• strainer;
• enameled container for coloring.

1. We make very strong black tea.
  And it’s not by chance that I wrote that it is possible to stain fabric for Tilda not only using dry tea leaves, but also tea from tea bags. The fact is that tea bags contain predominantly fine tea dust, and often more resistant than natural, artificial dye. Therefore, a fabric dyeing solution prepared from disposable tea bags has a more saturated and more stable color.

2. Filter the tea through a strainer and add a teaspoon of table salt to it to fix the color.

3. We put pre-washed laundry soap, rinsed and still damp cloth in tea, trying
  avoid wrinkles and kinks of a piece of matter, so that after staining it has an even shade throughout the area.

  4. We keep the tissue in solution from 15 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the desired color. Pattern I think
  clear: the longer we hold the fabric in tea, the darker the final shade will be. By the way, the higher the temperature of the tea, the more saturated and darker its color will become after staining. You can stir and turn the fabric in containers from time to time for more even dyeing.

Remember! After drying, the dyed fabric becomes lighter.

  5. It is better not to rinse the dyed fabric, but to dip it 1-2 times in cold water with vinegar diluted in it at the rate of
  2 tablespoons of vinegar per 1 liter of water. It also helps fix the color.

6. Without wringing, we hang out the fabric for drying, smoothing out all the folds as much as possible to avoid stains.

7. Iron the fabric with a hot iron without steaming, first from the wrong side, and then from the front.

  Unfortunately, despite all the measures taken, the color of the dyed fabric will lose saturation with each subsequent wash. But that's what natural coloring is!

Behind the seeming primitiveness and deliberate negligence of the performance of the attic doll is the painstaking work of the craftswoman who created it. In order for the new Tilda doll to be born, the needlewoman has to work hard.

It all starts with a picky selection of the right fabric. For the manufacture of Tilda dolls, natural fabrics are used: linen, cotton. However, the colors of fabrics made from natural fibers are discreet and have a uniform, inexpressive color scheme.

What to do if you want to make the attic doll bright and effective, but there is no desire to spend big money on the purchase of special expensive American fabrics? There is an exit! You can independently dye linen or cotton fabric to create Tilda in various colors using the improvised means available in the kitchen of every housewife.

The most common methods of dyeing fabric for Tilda:

Dyeing coffee fabric;

Turmeric Dyeing

1 - fabric before staining,

2 - fabric dyed with instant coffee,

3 - fabric dyed with turmeric.

Let us consider in detail each of these methods.

It is very important to wash the fabric using any household soap before any dyeing. Then the fabric after dyeing will get an even shade.

Before immersing the fabric in the staining solution, it must be wetted. It will also help evenly dye the fabric and avoid streaks.

To fix the color obtained by dyeing the fabric, you can add 1 tablespoon of table salt to the dyeing solution.

For dyeing fabric it is better to use enameled dishes.

0.5 liters of boiling water,

5 tablespoons of instant coffee (you can take the cheapest and most unsuitable coffee for its intended purpose :))

Dissolve coffee thoroughly in boiling water. Place the tissue in the solution and boil, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes.

After staining with instant coffee, the fabric acquires a pleasant light chocolate hue and a delicate coffee aroma.

To make fabric dyed with instant coffee even more fragrant, vanillin and ground cinnamon can be added to the dye solution. Only in this case, the solution will have to be pre-filtered to remove insoluble pieces of cinnamon. Otherwise, when stained on the fabric, dark brown specks form.

With a solution of coffee, cinnamon and vanilla, you can color the already sewn attic toy.

0.5 liters of water

4 teaspoons turmeric

Strain the solution. Place the tissue in the solution. Stir, bring to a boil. Boil for 10 minutes.

After staining with turmeric, the fabric acquires a cheerful bright lemon tint.

Dyeing the fabric with instant coffee and turmeric gives a fairly lasting effect. However, in subsequent launches, such a fabric will still lose color. To fix the resulting shade, the dyed fabric can be dipped 1-2 times in a solution of 1 liter of cold water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar (do not rinse, but only dip!). Also, to fix the color, the dyed fabric should be ironed with a hot iron without steaming, first from the inside and then from the front.

Dyed fabric does not need to rinse and wring. After dyeing, the fabric must be dried by hanging it vertically and stretching it as much as possible. This will prevent the appearance of stains.

The above methods dye not only the fabric for making Tilda dolls. Instant coffee or turmeric can also be used for painting embroidery.

By the way, if you liked the Tilda model, which demonstrates the methods of dyeing fabric with natural dyes of coffee and turmeric, you can sew a Tilda doll according to this pattern:

1 - detail of the upper body (2 parts),

2 - detail of the leg (4 parts, the dotted line shows the location of the bend of the leg at the knee),

3 - detail of the hand (4 parts)

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