Tea Dying

Tea dying.
What a novel idea.

Have you seen the Pins too?
I didn't know this was possible, but it makes perfect sense.

So I decided to give it a go.

 

 

 

 

Instead of using the usual brown tea, I found the most vibrant tea in our cupboard!

This beautiful, deep red tea was perfect for what I had in mind!

 

I started with a slightly larger than cereal bowl sized bowl,

boiled some water, then added two bags of

Celestial Seasoning's Raspberry Zinger tea (one of our favorites).

 

For this experiment, I wanted to dye two doilies I had recently finished.

After dunking the tea bags in the water for a bit, I took them out.

I placed one doily in the tea, put a tea bag on top of it,

put in the second doily, and the other tea bag on top of that.

A little sandwich, if you will, of doily and tea bags.

My reasoning was that this might help distribute the color evenly between the two doilies.

 





 

 

And then I forgot about them....for most of the day.

I stirred and squished them around every now and then

when I came through the kitchen.

 

At the end of the day, I took them out, rinsed them lightly,

then laid them out neatly to dry.

 

 



 

 

This is how they turned out!

I have laid them next to un-dyed doilies for comparison.

 

 



 

 

This was actually the hue I was hoping for!

I was pleased.

 

A little note, the color does fade more after they sit for several days,

which was a little disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.

 

All in all, I think this is a fun, economical way to throw in some color!

What do you think?

Have you done tea dying before?