With the French you can argue, but they wisely believe that a female head without a hat, that the Eiffel Tower, devoid of the tip. Depending on the model you put on, you can turn into a mysterious stranger or frivolous beauty, instantly changing your image. Knitted dresses, unfortunately, with time crumble, lose shape. Therefore, knowing how to properly starched a hat will help you improve its appearance. We offer readers a few tips that can make the product more beautiful and sustainable.
How to starched a knitted hat?
Use for this case different starch, gelatin and even PVA glue. The prepared solution is made thick or medium in consistency. Depending on how to starch , you can get a coarse, almost straw hat or a softer material. For ladies' beach panamok the first method will do, but for children's headgear this will be unnecessary. To the child such rigid and kolkaja a cap will seem inconvenient.
Ways how to starched the hat:
- We divorce in a glass of cold water a couple of tablespoons of starch and pour a liter of steep boiling water. Then all should be well stirred until the solution becomes transparent. When it cools, you can put our hat in the tank. It should be remembered that starch is suitable in cases where the product is connected from light material, if the hat consists of dark yarn, that is, the probability of appearance of white stains on its surface.
- In the case of gelatin, 1 tbsp. spoon the preparation soak for 20 minutes in a glass of water, pour the solution into a saucepan and warm it well. When gelatin dissolves, in the resulting liquid, we will wet our hat completely or we will apply the composition to its surface, using a convenient brush for this.
- Cook the starch paste (a teaspoon of powder in a glass of water), let the liquid cool down, and add a teaspoon of PVA glue. The resulting solution makes the hat resistant to deformation, but somewhat stiff.
After soaking, the product is shaken and dried. Just so spread it on some level surface or hang on a cord can not. It is good to pull the dress on the ball, a jar or a saucepan of the appropriate size, which will help keep the shape. Many are wondering how to starch a hat with large margins. Put the product on the disc for drying will be small. It is desirable to tighten its fields to the surface, so that they retain the shape, otherwise all the work will be wasted.