How to tea dye cotton fabric

Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.

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Tea dyeing is a fantastic way to give fabrics an antique and aged look. You can dye clothing, curtains, table covers, and just about any kind of fabric and

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Learn an essential fabric dyeing technique with this tutorial on How to Tea Dye Quilt Fabric. There are many tie dye techniques out there, but the great thing about this one is that it uses all natural products. Tea is an easy and non-toxic fabric dye. The other wonderful thing about dyeing fabric with tea is that you cut major costs. Tea is so much cheaper than generic fabric dyes. All you need for this project is tea and white fat quarters to dye, and you're good to go. Wash your gorgeous…

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A few months ago I stumbled on some beautiful photos of a shawl that someone had knit and overdyed with tea. I immediately began thinking I could easily try my hand at dyeing some yarn with tea right in my own kitchen. For those who haven’t dyed before, all you need to dye a protein… Continue reading Craf-tea: Dyeing yarn with tea.