![]() ![]() I did a dye test with a piece and to my delight I achieved some most desirable results. Brrr.ĭyeing with tea is pretty straightforward, because tea naturally has tannin (a morgant that helps the natural colour adhere to the fibre) and its pretty easy to find tea in most supermarkets.ĭebating my options, along with considering how each natural colour would affect the original blue of the wool, I decided to try changing the colour with tea. AND there’s no way Im going to start an indigo dye vat outside at this time of year. These days mail order deliveries can take a very long time, and in this part of the country most of our dye plants are under snow. ![]() I wanted to use a natural dye, and use a dye material that was easily obtainable. I had been given some blue wool yarn by my Grandmother, and whilst I love the colour blue, it just isn’t one of those colours that I would wear. Its a wonderful way to get a collection of fabrics to match if you dye them all with some tea (this is particularly handy when making quilts), or an easy way to change the colour of a thread, for example if you have yellow thread, dip it in tea and you will get a beautiful old gold colour. The wonderful thing about dyeing textiles with tea, is that it can make most chemically bright colours look a little antique. ![]()
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