How to sew torn tulle at home
It is difficult to imagine a home interior in which there are no tulle curtains. This transparent, light and beautiful fabric, openwork and smooth, with patterns and monophonic, natural or synthetic, allows you to create a special atmosphere in any room. However, weightlessness and subtlety of the material, which give it a unique look, become a disadvantage. Almost every housewife knows that even a small hole on a tulle curtain can completely ruin the interior. How to sew tulle so that the defect is invisible, and the curtain can be used for a long time?
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Repair of various types of tulle
Repairing damaged tulle is a technologically difficult process. The curtain fabric is easier to recover, it does not creep, it allows the use of a darning or embroidery, which covers the defect as much as possible, the installation of patches or the replacement of elements.
Tulle is much more difficult to repair, regardless of whether the woven fabric or the whole cut, with or without a pattern, asymmetric arrows, puffs, and puncture holes often appear during processing. As a result, it is necessary to process a large area and the appearance of the fabric varies significantly. At home, it is easier to fix torn tulle, if the hole is small, puff, burn through.
All types of tulle can be divided into several types, each of which has its own characteristics and requires its own approach to the repair.
- Veil - made from silk, wool, cotton or polyester soft fabric that does not require special care, often with printed patterns and other decorative elements.
- Organza is not creased durable material and polyester (expensive fabrics woven from viscose and silk are also produced).
- Grid - a type of tulle with a perforated structure.
In order to answer the question of how to quietly fix the tulle, it is necessary to take into account the necessary result, which is necessary to achieve. In addition to simply eliminating punctures, tightening, or stitching holes with a defect, you can use shortening curtains, sewing on additional elements, darning, decorating with embroidery, or other methods.
How to repair tulle
The decision on how to fix the tulle depends on the volume of the torn section and on its location. It is impossible to sew an oblique incision without visible results, besides, the fabric will crumble.
The curtain can be divided into two parts or folded into blocks, resulting in a different design solution. The edges of the fabric, in order to avoid fall, are processed by a candle, and then processed by the “American” line, and the edges of the thread are passed into the curved sections.
In the same way, it is possible to interconnect two pieces that turned out after removing a hole or a long horizontal tear of the fabric and sew it into a single web. It’s impossible to make a seam invisible, but this situation can be beaten for design purposes and at the junction of the two parts you can sew a contrasting narrow strip, the color of which is combined with other interior items.
If the damage to a large area is at the bottom, it is possible to consider an option in which the curtain can be shortened. If this is impossible or not combined with the overall design of the room, it is easier than buying a new tulle, buying a fabric that fits the style and adding the missing length, horizontally stitching old and new pieces.
Tulle damaged by cat
The pet owners periodically have a question: the cat tore the tulle how to repair? Cats do release curtains from this material, and damage can occur throughout the web. This is usually point damage from claws. Dabbing such holes completely ruins the look of the product.
In the handicraft shops, there are a lot of thermo-adhesive applications of various colors and shapes. It is necessary to choose elements that are combined both among themselves and not falling out of the general color spectrum of the room. The adhesive strip is fixed on the base, and then smoothed with an iron at medium temperature to the damaged area. In this case, the tulle will not deteriorate due to the high temperature, and the appliqué will firmly fasten on the canvas.
The same option is also suitable for those cases when there are burned cigarette holes on the fabric - this happens quite often in apartments with smoking owners. Thin stickers will also save chiffon - it is impossible to sew up a hole in this fabric without being noticed.
If you want to sew tulle, torn by a cat vertically (this happens if the animal hangs on a thin fabric), the easiest way is to use the hot-air web, sold in handicraft stores. The threads at the point of rupture neatly fit together, an additional thread is laid on the inside of the inside to provide strength, and a thermal tape is laid on top. The place of the gap will be noticeable if it is located in the background of lighting from the window, but this is better than a perforated curtain.
The next option is to use a donor fragment. Tulle can be taken from the edge of the curtains, if the width allows it, or purchased separately. The disheveled edges of the gap are cut, a new piece is superimposed on its place, while the direction of the threads is monitored, and from the inside out the resulting construction is also connected with the same web.
Iron Tulle Repair
Tulle - a fabric that requires delicate care. Often, tissue damage occurs when the ironing temperature is not followed. As a result, the defects after such an ironing have a rather large area, and it is not so easy to correct the situation.
What to do if the tulle is burnt with an iron? You can apply the darning-weaving method. It requires a painstaking relationship and time, but the result is completely imperceptibly darned tulle. A patch that is suitable in size, color and shape is taken, threads are woven around its perimeter and along the edges of damage, and then curtain threads are woven into the patch, and, conversely, the patch threads are woven into the canvas.
This option is not suitable for damaged organza. Such a tulle can not be sewn correctly - the result will always be noticeable. But you can not hide the place of the seam, but use a patterned line, applications with beads or embroidery, duplicating the finishing of other sections.
As a conclusion, it can be said about how to sew tulle correctly; this does not at all mean imperceptibly connecting the places of rupture. Torn site can not be fixed so that he acquired the old look.
But to decorate the damage so that the curtain will look even better than before, quite capable of any hostess. Besides the fact that you do not have to spend time and money on the purchase of new tulle, you will receive a completely original curtain that cannot be seen anywhere else.
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