Drawing is one of the most exciting activities that helps to realize the desire for creativity. When choosing paints for a young artist, parents often stop at watercolors, as it is considered one of the safest. But in the process, children stain their clothes and furnishings with paints, watercolor stains appear on the fabrics. And if this happens, then you need to act very quickly so that the coloring pigments do not have time to gain a foothold inside the fibers.
Here you can read instructions on how to remove a watercolor stain.
Watercolor
Watercolor paint consists of two main components: a coloring (mostly natural) pigment and a binding base in the form of a water-soluble glue. Dyes are most often diluted with gum arabic, but inexpensive products use dextrin or other types of glue. Additionally, watercolor contains plasticizers: honey, glycerin or molasses. It also contains preservativesto prevent bacteria growth, and wetting agents so that the ink lays evenly on the paper.
There are several types of watercolor: dry, honey, liquid, soft and semi-solid. They all have different properties and characteristics.
Expensive products are characterized by a high content of dyes, high light fastness and color fastness. And it is good, high-quality paint that gives the most persistent watercolor stains.
Deletion methods
Watercolor is water-based, so it should dissolve in water. And if the stain is fresh, it should be rinsed immediately under a cold stream. Hot water is contraindicated as the heat will set the dye on the fabric.
It is fresh watercolor stains that were put no later than 3-5 hours ago that are removed well.
In order to remove watercolor from the fabric, you can apply the following methods:
- Dried stains should be rubbed with laundry soap before washing and wait at least an hour. Then wash as usual.
- A 1.5-fold increase in the dose of baby powder will help with watercolor. You just need to add it to the washing machine when washing.
- Watercolor stain can be removed with stain remover on colored fabrics, and bleach on white fabrics.
- If the fabric has a persistent pattern and it does not belong to delicate products, then you can remove the contamination with hot vinegar. You need to moisten a cotton pad in heated vinegar and apply to the stain, and then wash. But this method cannot be used on silk.or thin material, you must first test the resistance on an inconspicuous area.
- To cope with the stain will help a universal mixture of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide 3% in equal proportions. Apply it to the stain and add some hot water.
- From thick and dense fabrics, watercolor can be simply scraped dry.
- Glycerin can help with watercolor stains on clothes. It is applied to a cotton pad and pressed to the contaminated area. Holding time - 15-20 min.
How to remove watercolor stains from different types of fabrics
Each type of fabric uses its own method of removing dirt. Cotton items are placed in a hot solution of two liters of water, a couple of tablespoons of soda and shavings from a large bar of laundry soap. The stain from the wool is removed only with laundry soap, repeating the process as many times as necessary until completely cleansed. Watercolors from natural silk are removed either with laundry soap or with heated alcohol - they wipe the stain with it, then dry it with a napkin and sprinkle with talcum powder. Ammonia or saline solution will wash away watercolor paint from a synthetic canvas.
If none of the methods worked, then you can mask the stain. Since we are talking about children's clothes, embroideries, appliqués and decorative pockets will look good on it.
