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How to use old nylon tights. New life for old tights: ideas for beauty and household

Don't throw away your old tights. There are many ideas for using old tights in everyday life - for women, for men, and even for gardeners!

For home, for family:

1. Filter for a vacuum cleaner. To do this, you need to pull tights over the suction hole and vacuum the place where the loss is supposed to be. In this case, all the dust will be sucked in, and small things will linger on the fabric. All ladies are familiar with the situation when an earring that has fallen on the floor rolls behind a chair or under a bed. Vacuum where the earring is supposed to be. All dust will be drawn into the vacuum cleaner, and the earring will simply be attracted, but will not get inside.

2. Owners of vacuum cleaners with reusable filters. We cut off the upper (thigh) part of the stocking, tie the wide end in a knot or intercept it with a strong elastic band, put the resulting chalk on the pipe inside the dust collector, fix it there with a rubber ring. That's it!.. After filling the bag, we throw it away with the garbage.

3. Hygiene massage brush. Pull tights or stockings onto a massage brush or comb so that the teeth stick out (they were not covered by tights). Then you can comb your hair with such a comb and remove the tights from the comb. The comb itself will remain clean. There will be no hair, no dandruff, no residue of sebum, etc. on it. Hair and all the dirt will remain in the stocking.

4. For cleaning and polishing furniture. Dark tights - the denser the better - are very good for dusting furniture. Woolen tights are great for bringing shine to glass surfaces and especially mirrors. Use old tights to polish furniture. Crumple them and rub the wooden surfaces: nylon has a mild abrasive property and removes dirt well from polished and varnished surfaces. You can also clean your boots with them.

5. For cleaning and polishing shoes. Pieces of nylon fabric will restore the shine of your shoes better than a shoe brush: apply cream to your shoes and polish with a cloth cut from stockings. Special synthetic threads are added to modern tights, which clean and polish shoes very well.

6. For flavoring. In tights (absolutely clean, of course) you can put dried orange peels and hang in any inconspicuous place in the bathroom. Every time the tub is filled with steam, the orange peels will smell and scent the tub. You can also fill pantyhose with lavender. Using the bottom of your pantyhose, place a few handfuls of bath salt and place them in the tub: this will dissolve the salt evenly and won't flake off.

7. Moth pads. Caring hostesses make pillows out of old tights, which are filled with lavender and put in closets. This method has a double benefit: both the moth drives away and the aroma is pleasant.

8. Sew a stocking folded several times crosswise or around the perimeter, and you will get a cloth for washing mirrors, tiles, dishes and window panes.

9. Toys for children. By stuffing tights with pieces of old fabrics or just newspapers, you can get some semblance of animals or puppets for a puppet theater. And from pantyhose you get an excellent tail for a cat fancy dress.

10. Put tights in the first aid kit. Strong stockings are very good for pulling and bandaging injured people.

11. For warming hands. Woolen stockings can be worn on the hands, hiding them from prying eyes under the sleeves. They will keep your hands warm.

12. Use them as a storage box. Old tights make great storage bags for old blueprints, posters, or wallpaper rolls.

13. It is good to store vegetables in pantyhose. The fact is that the fabric from which they are made allows air to pass through them well. Place vegetables such as onions and potatoes in tights or stockings, tie a knot at the top, and hang on the wall in a well-ventilated area.

14. The accumulated dirt on the blinds and mosquito nets is also good to remove using a lump of nylon fabric - old tights.

15. Place leftover soap bars in old pantyhose and use them to clean the kitchen or bathroom.

16. Using the bottom of the pantyhose, put a few handfuls of bath salts and place them in the bath: this will dissolve the salt evenly and will not crumble.

17. Wrap the rolling pin in a piece of pantyhose so that the dough does not stick to its surface.

18. To clean the accumulated dust in a high and inaccessible part of your house, "put on" pantyhose, for example, on a mop and turn them into a cleaning tool: nylon and nylon create static electricity and capture dust.

19. Place a piece of fabric from tights on the bottom flower pot to avoid washing out the soil when watering the plants.

20. Together with your child, you can make Florika - a funny plant figurine. From the bottom of the tights, cut the workpiece of the desired size, 2/3 tightly stuff with sawdust, 1/3 with lawn grass seeds and tie tightly. With the help of a thread, a needle and waterproof paints, make a lotus figure or a cube, for example. Then immerse in water at room temperature for 10 hours, and then put it on a saucer in a bright place. Water twice a day, do not allow drying and waterlogging. Florica will soon have a green fur coat that your child can cut as it grows.

21. Place a few handfuls of cat litter sand in a piece of nylon cloth and use it to blot wet spots as this sand absorbs liquid well.

22. Dressing. In case of injury, fracture of limbs, tights can be successfully used as a tourniquet or fixing bandage. For men, it can also be a good pain reliever: the sight of a woman hastily tearing off her tights will quickly make you forget about the pain.

23. Broom feels very good in a nylon stocking case. Why and lives longer, and looks prettier, and works more carefully.

24. You can crochet floor mats.

25. Making a bed for a dog. Dogs love to go to bed on the bed of their owners. If you're like me, then sleep in the same position as the dog, which makes it very comfortable. Get her out of your bed, and to make her comfortable, make her her own bed. Take a piece of cloth suitable for the dog and shape it into any shape you like. Leave one side unsewn so that you can stuff the bed with old tights. Then sew this side. Put her favorite toy nearby and show her new bed so she knows her place.

26. Making a leash for a small dog. This is not for those dogs that are larger than a cat! Tie one end of the stocking from the old tights to the collar and go!

27. Wrap gift Easter eggs.I love coloring Easter eggs and turn them into real works of art! I know people who paint whole pictures on them and show them at the spring exhibition at Easter. Beautiful Easter eggs can become a good gift to the hostess to whom you go for an Easter dinner, or to those guests who come to you to celebrate Easter. Carefully wrap fragile eggs in a flap from white tights and tie a bag on top with a pretty ribbon.

For gardeners:

1. For gardeners, it is possible to advise such a way of using nylon tights as tying the trunks of young fruit trees with them. If you have a young garden, wrap tree trunks with tights to a height of 70-80 cm for the winter. This will protect them from rodents. It is necessary to tie the trunk in a spiral, leaving a gap between the turns of at least 5 mm.

2. Strengthening plants. It is good to tie branches and stems of plants with elastic tights or their pieces. Soft tights will not cause such harm to the plant as a regular rope.

3. Plant protection. Plants can be protected with tights from animals, insects or curious children. Cut tights can cover both individual plants and small beds. Cut off the top of the tights, you will have two stockings. From each cut a strip in a spiral. It will turn out long enough, then it can be cut into pieces of the desired length and used to tie up tomatoes, beans, etc.

4. But, perhaps, gardeners have found the most original use for tights. They use them for planting potatoes. Potatoes are put in a stocking and buried in the ground. The main thing is that the upper edge of the stocking remains above the ground. Potato throws out sprouts through a fairly large mesh of pantyhose, takes root and grows into young tubers. But the best part is that all these young tubers grow in... Stocking. Therefore, in the fall, the gardener does not need to dig up potatoes for a long time, but simply pull out the stocking with the crop over the edge left on top.

For men:

1. Used paint brushes can be stored in pantyhose to reduce the risk of contamination and frizz.

2. If you use sandpaper to sand a wooden surface, you can check the quality of the sanding by putting pantyhose on your hand and running it over the surface: if there is a defect, there will be a puff on the fabric.

3. Alternative to the alternator belt, pump or power steering. While foreign drivers are bourgeois, if the belt breaks, they will stand for hours, scratching themselves, waiting for the arrival of the evacuation service, a Russian person in such a situation will simply ask his wife to borrow her pantyhose for a while, which will successfully replace the ill-fated belt and help reach the nearest car service .

4. Tights as a filter. It is good to filter technical liquids through thick tights, for example, paint. Anyone who has ever held a brush in their hands will easily guess that for the second time the remaining and standing paint will have to be filtered. The resulting film with adhering dust interferes with work. Cover the jar with a piece of stocking and pick up paint on the brush right through this "reverse" sieve.

5. Reinforcing material. Craftsmen use tights when gluing wooden skis - for reinforcement. They say tights are best suited for these purposes.

6. Is there a leak in the bathroom? Knead a handful of cement in water until thick sour cream. Thoroughly bathe a nylon stocking in this liquid, wrap the affected joint with it. Apply a bandage without folds, tight and not tight. Smooth out irregularities with the rest of the solution. When the "muff" is slightly dry, walk on it with a wet brush or rag - for beauty. The connection will be strong.

7. A rattling refrigerator? Wrap the engine of the refrigerator with pantyhose in one turn, spread the ends and secure them tightly on the body.

Old tights don't have to go to the landfill. Skilful hands can find an incredible amount of this secondary material. useful applications. What exactly can be thought up here - we look in the new review. Definitely, the tips collected here can be useful to everyone.

1. Artificial fog

Putting a thin nylon stocking on the camera lens, you can get original pictures with a fog effect. This trick should definitely be noted by all novice photographers and lovers of experiments.

2. Adorable toys

From old torn or unnecessary tights you can make unique toys, which will become original decoration at home or gifts for loved ones.

3. Artificial flowers

Craftswomen and needlewomen can use thin nylon tights to create stunning artificial flowers.

4. Channel for nails and screws

Trimmings of unnecessary stockings, socks and nylon tights can be used to strengthen loose screws in old furniture or to strengthen nails in walls. To do this, you need to fill the drilled hole with scraps of stocking, stick a red-hot pre-hot nail in there and immediately pull it out. A nail, screw or bolt can be driven into the resulting molten channel.

5. Glass cloth

Old nylon products can be turned into cloths for effective glass cleaning. Due to their abrasive properties, these cloths perfectly cope with any dirt and do not leave fibers.

6. Rag for cleaning and polishing shoes

Scraps of unnecessary nylon tights can be used to clean and polish shoes.

7. Washcloth for washing dishes

Torn tights can be turned into washcloths for washing dishes. To do this, cut pre-washed tights into thin strips and use a hook to tie them into washcloths that will cope with fat and dried food residues no worse than purchased ones.

8. Furniture polishing

Kapron has a mild abrasive property and well removes dirt and dust from polished and varnished surfaces. So, just crumple the holey tights and wipe the wooden furniture with them.

9. Protection of the massage comb

A clean nylon sock or a piece of stocking can be put on a comb so that the teeth stick out. This will protect the comb from the remnants of dandruff, sebum and will allow you to clean it of hair and dirt at any time, simply by removing it all along with the nylon.

10. Net

Nylon is a fairly durable material, so old tights can be used to create a net for catching fish, or a device for cleaning the pool.

11. Washing

In order not to inadvertently spoil a delicate thing during a machine wash, place it in a nylon stocking. Also, in nylon stockings or tights, you can wash small items so that they are not lost in the machine.

12. Nail polish remover

Use an unwanted nylon stocking to wipe off old nail polish if you don't have cotton on hand.

13. Capron in a flower pot

Before planting the plant, place a piece of nylon tights on the bottom of the pot to protect the soil from being washed out during watering.

14. Perfect paint

Nylon tights for drying shoes.

Old nylon products can be used to dry wet shoes. Pour a little cat litter into the scraps of unnecessary tights, tie off and place in wet shoes. In addition to moisture, the bags will also absorb unpleasant odors.

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Continuing the topic on your own.

Even with the most accurate wear, any nylon tights sooner or later deteriorate - an arrow appears, a puff or a hole. But this is not a reason to say goodbye to them. After all nylon is a very interesting, pliable, elastic material for crafts.

Nylon tights are a real treasure for housewives and needlewomen. Nylon is used to make rugs, fragrances, planters, filter nozzles for a vacuum cleaner and much, much more. In addition to being used in the household, various decorative elements are created from it:

table and floor vases;
flowers and butterflies for wall panels, headwear, bijouterie;
charm dolls, dolls for home puppet theater, or children's toys.

Learning how to make such crafts is not difficult at all. The main thing is to be careful, take your time, turn on your imagination and never throw away old tights.

Master class: a doll made of nylon tights

Nylon dolls are surprisingly realistic. You can create such accurate facial expressions that it seems - the doll will now speak! However, before taking on the manufacture of complex dolls, you should practice on simpler ones.

One of these unpretentious dolls is a baby doll. For its manufacture we need:

Tights or nylon golf.
Filler, for example, synthetic winterizer.
Needle and thread for sewing.
Scissors.
Glue.
Pieces of fabric for clothes.
Knitting threads for hair.

IMPORTANT! For work, it is necessary to choose a capron with an elastane content of not more than 3%. Otherwise, shine will be present, and the shape of the product will be lost.

Preparing capron for work

Before starting work, you need to prepare your hands and material.

The first step is hand preparation.

So that the claws do not cling to the hands, you should take a handful of sugar, add a little vegetable oil, mix and rub with your hands. Then rinse under running water. As a result, the skin will become smooth, and puffs will not be terrible.

The second stage is the preparation of the capron.

ATTENTION! For crafts, it is most convenient to use tights with a density of 30 DEN.

Whether it will be new, specially purchased tights, or old ones, in any case, they will need to be lightened and strengthened.

There are many methods for how to do this. However, most of them use strong means household chemicals. This is not suitable for everyone, so consider a more gentle option with activated carbon:

Crush a pack of ordinary activated charcoal tablets, pour into a saucepan, pour water (about 3 liters) and put to a boil.
While the pan is boiling, in another container, soak the tights in plain water. This must be done carefully so that no dry spots remain.
When the water with coal boils, transfer the soaked tights to the pan. We leave to boil.
At this time, change the water in the empty container and add a cap of any fabric softener there. Stir and set aside for now.
After re-boiling water, pantyhose must be boiled for 7 minutes, constantly stirring with a tablespoon.
Pour the contents of the pan into the sink, rinse the tights thoroughly in cold water. At this stage, you can clearly see how the color of the capron has changed.
Rinse in air-conditioned water to close the pores of the capron, and there will be no arrows in the future.
Dry.

Now the material is ready to go.

By the way, in one such procedure, you can process up to three pairs of tights.

We sew a baby doll from kapron

Even a beginner can sew a funny baby doll.

To create a doll, you can cut off the bottom of the tights or take a nylon golf.

Step-by-step instruction:

Fill the nylon base with filler and tie the free end with a knot. Cut off excess.
With a basting stitch in a circle, divide the base into two equal parts. Pull the thread to make a neck. Wrap with thread several times.

Where the legs should be, sew in a circle and pull off a little. In the same way, make a nose on the face.

To make a navel, you need to flash through the seam of tights and grab a piece of nylon. Returning the needle, make a knot. From the same point, make a long seam from the back of the baby doll to the middle of the body. Returning the needle inside the doll and fix. Get buttocks.

Next, shape the head. Make ears with small seams on the sides. Embroider eyebrows and eyelashes.
Determine where the mouth will be, and sew the beads of the doll's eyes from its corners.

The mouth itself can be made from a red thread by passing it through the top of the baby. Fix the thread in a knot.
Make handles from pieces of nylon, fill them with filler and sew to the body.
Next, sew clothes from pieces of colored fabric. Put on a doll.
From knitting threads make hair and sew. You can braid pigtails or make ponytails, tie bows or put on a hat.

Baby doll from nylon tights is ready!

We make flowers from nylon tights

Kapron flowers fascinate no less than dolls. Creating nylon flowers is a painstaking process that requires special care. But the result is worth the time spent on it.

To make flowers you will need:

Tights that have been trained.
Acrylic paints or gouache.
Paper napkin, green nylon and beads.
Threads.
Wire #22–26.
Tape tape (can be replaced with corrugated paper).

Progress:

First you need to make blanks for the leaves. It is necessary to wrap the wire twice around a round base (for example, the neck of a bottle), connect the ends and wrap with thread. Then wrap two semicircles with thread and spread them out so that the outline of the leaf is obtained. Gently cover the base with nylon. Fix the edge with a thread. Paint in green color and leave to dry.

Prepare petals. Make round blanks. Cover them with nylon. Fix with a thread and paint, for example, in purple.
While the blanks are drying, you need to make stamens. Beads are attached to the wires. Another option - small pieces of napkin are wound around the wires and covered with green nylon. Secure with tape.

Everything is ready, you can collect the flower. Pull the petal blanks into thin ovals. Lay them in a ring overlapping each other. Connect the stamens together with adhesive paper. Put them in the petals and fix everything with a thread. Using tape, attach two sepals and close the place of fixation with them.

Spread flower petals. Fasten them with leaves to the wire-stalk. Wrap tape around the entire stem. It remains to add a little imagination and you get an amazing flower.

Graceful vases and lampshades from fishnet tights

If openwork or mesh tights fail, then it does not matter. From them you can make a beautiful vase or lampshade for a lamp.

For a vase you will need:

Openwork tights.
Scissors.
Acrylic glue.
Double sided thin tape.
Glass base.

Stages of work:

Cut off part of the tights a little more than the base of the vase.
Glue strips of double-sided tape along the upper and lower edges of the future vase.
Pull the resulting stocking onto the base and bend the upper edge inward.
Secure the bottom and top edges by removing the protective layer of adhesive tape.
apply acrylic glue with a thin strip on top of the inner surface of the vase and press the free end. When the glue dries, the vase is ready.

By the same principle, you can make a lampshade. The old frame from a lamp or floor lamp is taken as the basis, which is covered with fishnet tights.

This is what will be discussed in our article - what to make from old tights and how to use them.

Amazing Soft Dachshund

photo: trapillo.com; funfamilycrafts.com

From tights, especially multi-colored, you can make original toys, which will become a wonderful gift or interior decoration. original solution- make a toy dachshund out of tights. To do this, you will need: old tights, threads, a needle, scissors, buttons, beads for decoration, a synthetic winterizer as a filler and a little imagination. Just some 15-20 minutes and original gift ready with your own hands!

Room fragrance pads

To make these pillows, sew small bags out of old pantyhose, fill them with dried orange peels, lavender flowers, or any other fragrant herbs. These pillows can be used as fragrances for any room.

Decoration of glass vases

This option is suitable for patterned nylon tights. With their help, from the simplest glass vase, you can make an original and stylish thing. Cut off a piece of old tights, which will serve as an impromptu cover for the vase.

Vegetable storage

This way of using old tights is known even to our grandmothers. To save onions and garlic, it is necessary to cut the tights so that a kind of bag can be formed from the resulting part. Fill it with onions or garlic and hang. Such a bag will fit well into the country interior.

Bright hair bands

From the old bright tights make excellent elastic bands for fixing hair.

Original rug for the house

The rug can be made both from nylon tights and from ordinary ones. The structure and density of the future product depends on the material. To do this, cut off the bottom and top of the pantyhose. And weave a rug from long parts. To implement this idea, multi-colored tights are best suited.

Unique photographs

photo: sunshineybliss.blogspot.com

It's more of a life hack for using old plain nylon tights. A small part of the product should cover the camera lens and you will get the effect of light fog in the photograph.

unusual flowers

You can make original artificial flowers from nylon tights, which will become wonderful decorative elements. It takes a little skill, imagination and free time.

Incredible dolls

A woman who wears tights often faces the problem of using them in other areas. This is due to the fact that tights, although expensive, are very quickly torn or lose their attractive appearance. It becomes a pity to throw them away and you have to figure out what can be done from old tights.

If you have one or more small children, then this problem becomes even more urgent. Panty hoses accumulate at a high speed and interfere greatly, as they take up a lot of space in the closet. Therefore, having collected a sufficient number of them, you can begin to manufacture various useful things in life and everyday life.

Household use

Before you start thinking about what you can do with tights with your own hands, you need to sort through them and leave only those that are more or less suitable for further use on the farm. For any kind of crafts, nylon tights are best suited. They are more durable and easy to process.

Back in Soviet times, many ways to use tights in the kitchen were invented. The most popular way is to store garlic and onions inside thigh-high stockings. Nowadays, young housewives almost never resort to this method of storage, but in vain. Due to the mesh structure of the material of the stockings, the bulbs are stored longer and do not rot.

Another way to make old nylon pantyhose for the kitchen is to use it as a sieve. To do this, cut out pieces of the right size from clean tights and filter products with their help in which you need to get rid of excess liquid (for example, cottage cheese).

There is another way to use this garment. Useable parts are cut out from pieces of nylon and wrapped around a rolling pin for rolling out the dough. This little trick will help prevent the dough from sticking when rolling out.

Nylon tights - an indispensable thing in the household. They found many uses and were given a chance to serve people one more time. Exists a large number of ways to make crafts from nylon tights with your own hands and find a use for them. The most popular of them:

Dade, if tights are a women's garment, they are widely used by men for household and construction needs. The options for what can be made from nylon tights are varied. Among them are the following:

For beginners and experienced needleworkers, old torn tights are an indispensable source of materials. With their help, create various interior items that help decorate an apartment or house.

Creation of interior items

If you have accumulated a large number of fishnet and lace-like tights, then you can use them to make a candlestick or beautiful vase. To make an exclusive piece of furniture out of a simple glass, you need to take double-sided tape and unused tights. Scotch tape is glued to the rim of the glass and a piece of fabric is gently stretched on top. In the same way, you can decorate flower pots.

No less common is the use of old tights in floriculture. With their help, herbalists make toys that are stuffed with sawdust and oat seeds. Such a unique thing can be given absolutely any shape (for example, an animal, a man, a mushroom, an interior item). If the toy is properly cared for, then after a while young green sprouts will appear from it.

Using old tights, you can make and simple toy for your child. As with the herbalist, it can be given any shape and size. Your son or daughter will love this toy.

Knitting a rug

Even an inexperienced one who does not understand anything in needlework can make a rug out of old tights with his own hands. The finished product is perfect for giving. It can be used in the hallway as a shoe mat or as a durable and soft bedding. Before you get started, you need to sort the tights and arrange them by color. In the future, this will help, by combining, to create various shades of future crafts.

Master class on knitting a rug:

Kids toys

All lovers of needlework love to learn new techniques of work. Therefore, it will be interesting for them to work with old tights or golfs and make a children's toy out of them, for example, a doll.

As a rule, caricature faces are made to ready-made toys. This is due to the fact that the material allows you to fully convey emotions to the finished product. In addition to dolls, figurines of various deities and brownies are made, which are given to dear people as a talisman or talisman.

To make a doll, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:

A synthetic winterizer will be used as the basis for creating the doll's head. They make a blank out of it and put it on tights. Next, the following actions are performed:

A small piece of material is cut from old tights. The resulting nylon tube is put on the workpiece.
To create the nose and cheeks of the doll, put pieces of padding polyester.
With the help of a large needle and thread, the doll's face is formed.
Next, fold the thread in half and thread both ends into the eye of the needle. With the help of pins outline the wings of the nose and nostrils. Attach the thread in the right nostril and thread the needle through the loop. Remove the pins and tighten the wing of the nose and nostril.
Then form the second nostril. To do this, they pierce the tights in the same place and return to the loop through which the needle is threaded.
A little padding polyester is added at the bottom of the head and a mouth is formed. Mark the places for the eyes and corners of the mouth with pins. First of all, the eyes are pulled together, and then the mouth.
Glue the eyes and sew the edges of the tights.
Often these dolls are decorated with eye shadow and hairspray.

Having made the head of the toy, you can start making arms and legs. To do this, take pieces of synthetic winterizer and fix them inside a nylon stocking.

To give the doll a beautiful image, you need to make her a costume. To make it, follow these steps: