Starchy gauze may be required in different cases - for repairing the book's binding, for dressing, strengthening and making headgear fields, for adding splendor to the skirt in a carnival costume for children or in other situations when thin, but resistant to relatively small loads material is needed. Starched gauze holds its shape well, and in order to starch it at home, it does not require large expenditures and efforts.
You will need
Water, Starch, Iron
Instruction manual
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The easiest way to starch cheesecloth is to use a special starch solution. Such solutions are made on the basis of natural starch and go on sale in a ready-made form. They look like a regular spray can under pressure. The composition must be sprayed with gauze from a spray gun at a distance of 25-30 centimeters and ironed. Under the influence of high temperature gauze will become harder.
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The following method is suitable for starching bandages. Starch is dissolved in water, a bandage is lowered into the solution and left there for twenty minutes. After the specified time, the bandage is removed, straightened and left to dry. Rinse the bandage that lay in the starch solution is not required. Starched bandages are commonly used with regular bandages. They are used for hardening dressings in the treatment of varicose and trophic ulcers.
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In the manufacture of hats, gauze is prepared as follows: not too thick starch is brewed in a container, the gauze is lowered into the resulting solution and carefully rubbed into the surface of the gauze. The starch solution should completely cover the gauze with a uniform layer. Then the gauze is left to dry by hanging on a rope or pulling on a frame. When the gauze dries, it is carefully ironed.
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For children's carnival costumes with fluffy skirts, gauze should be stiff enough to support the weight of the fabric on top. In order to achieve this result, it is necessary to brew very thick starch. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that by consistency it is homogeneous and does not resemble jelly. To do this, pre-prepared starch suspension is poured into boiling water (half a glass of starch goes into a glass of cold water), the solution is mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained and it is allowed to cool a little. When the temperature of the solution becomes tolerable for hands, gauze is immersed in it and soaked in it with a solution. After this, the fabric must be straightened, dried and ironed. If the gauze is spread out inaccurately, with bends or kinks, it will not work to fix it with an iron. You have to repeat the whole process from the very beginning. By the way, if you add a little dye to the starch solution, you can simultaneously starch and tint gauze.
