From: "Agnes Gawne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
the best tea dying I have found is from Nambarrie's Tea from Belfast - it dyes cups, teeth and fabrics.
My experiment with saving used tea bags for future tea dying did not end well. Rather, it ended with me holding something at arm's length and sprinting for the trash. Oh, well, luckily tea's not that expensive anymore.
I've been trying different types of teas lately, now that I'm trying to get back into drinking it daily, and have been surprised to notice how wide a range of colors I see. When I was half the age I am now, I tried tea dying as a means of giving something an antiquey look, and gave up in disgust at the pinky peachy caucasian-flesh-tone I kept getting. Now I wish I'd tried different types of tea instead of giving up! My spent green tea bags stain the paper towel I put them on the perfect yellowed linen color...
When I'm done running around like a chicken with its head cut off planning my move/house-building/house purchase halfway across the country (WA, NH, MT, or WY, depending on which job the husband takes) I plan to try various types of cheap grocery store tea to find out what color each yields. Unless anyone knows of a website out there where someone has already done the work for me!
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