Black tea dye fabric

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If you’re just dipping your toes into natural dyeing, tea is a great dye to try first. But years later, I still love dyeing with tea. This tutorial is a little bit special… wait until you see the patterns! Why do I love dyeing with tea so much? Almost all of us have some tea...

A couple of years ago I’ve already published a tutorial on how to dye cotton fabric blue with black beans using DIY iron mordant and a cold dyeing process. This is now a different method to dye cotton gray blue with black beans. You don’t need to mordant the fabric before dyeing it with black … Continue reading How To Dye Cotton With Black Beans (No Mordant) →

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.

Dyeing with tea is easy, inexpensive, and gives your textiles a rich earthy color. Tea is rich in tannins which bonds well with natural fibers, which means that it doesn’t require a mordant (a substance used to bind the dye to the fabric). It is a great choice for those who are new to dyeing.

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

Black beans are such easy and affordable way to dye animal and plant based fibres naturally! Achieve gorgeous purple to lavender shade in 3 simple steps!

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Tea is one of my favorite food waste dyes!☕️ Full of tannins and flavonoids, tea is capable of creating a range of colors from pink to yellow depending on the type of tea and the pretreatment of the fabric. ✨ This expired black tea created beautiful, warm brown tones on mordanted fabric and a cooler brown on soy treated fabric. 👉🏼 Soy treated fabrics almost always pulls less yellows from natural dyes because flavonoids, the phytochemicals…