Tea bag art

Tea bag tea is always inferior to loose leaf tea. The tea that goes into bags is called dust, and quite literally includes particles that fall to the floor and are swept up during machine processing. There is no delicate way to put it - dust grade tea is the cheap left overs. We are yet to come across tea bag tea that

I drink hot tea and I like lots of different flavors. I buy different brands, like Stash, Steep, or Twinings. All three brands have tea bags that are the same size, no staples, and have similar texture. Since I drink so much tea, it always pains me to throw out the used tea bags (I think “Oh no, th

Making art using tea bags is kind of like going on an art mini-vacation. You have your regular work, but you stop to take a break and make art on a tea bag. It’s quick and you feel like you’ve been a way for a while. I like to use a tea bag for an art-making mini-vacation because: Tea bags are s

New York-based artist Ruby Silvious reuses old tea bags as canvases. On 3 January 2015, Silvious embarked her project 363 Days of Tea. “I don’t plan ahead [what to paint],” she says. “I want to engage people and get them to reimagine discarded objects. I want them to look at tea bags in a different … Continue reading "363 Days Of Tea: Artist Paints Beautiful Pictures On Old Tea Bags"

Apparently, there are many different ways to keep a diary and this unique artist from New York, Ruby Silvious, has discovered an amazing one. While some of us tend to throw away used tea bags after finishing our tea, Silvious reuses them... as canvases for her miniature paintings.

Here is a super-messy, goopy, fun paper pulp bowl project for kids. Dive in and get your hands all immersed in paper pulp with them!

Corinna on Instagram: "TEA BAG IMAGE TRANSFER and paper- 2 for 1 in this reel 😆😆😆 I had the teabags out so I did 2 things here. First an image transfer this technique is everywhere so go take a look and the second I placed a sheet of baking paper down a couple of images from Alex @alexcastroferreira7770 and with a mixture of water and PVA glue went for it and overlapped the teabags to create paper, once dry tan it through the machine and that’s it. Experimenting with things at the moment…

Artists are reinventing the humble tea bag, letting its contents and simple shape and color shine in beautiful, fragile art. Some are even farming out the tea drinking to get to the used bags.

As summer approaches and the sunshine is plentiful here in the desert southwest, I drink a lot of this... Making sun tea here only takes ...