Pictured below - are doilies I dyed using various easy to find common items.
Tea Bags
Kool Aid
Instant Tea Mix
Tea Bag Doily Dying
What you need:
- Paper doilies
- Tea bags
- Water
- Bowl
- Coffee filters
I used approximately 1/4 cup of water per tea bag to get the "color" seen in the first picture.,
Heat water in microwave or boil on stove.,
Add tea bags and allow to COOL - using hot water makes the doilies SOGGY and they might tear.
Pour the cold tea water into a bowl - remove tea bags
Let doilies soak in the tea fully submerged.
I tried soaking 5 minutes / 10 minutes / 15 minutes.
I found good success allowing doilies to dry on coffee filters - you can use paper towels also.
Here are the dried doilies left to right 5/ 10/ 15 minutes.
Three tea dyed doilies compared with white when fully dried.
Kool Aid Doily Dying
What you need:
- Paper doilies
- Kool Aid / with out sugar
- Water
- Bowl
- Coffee filters
Dissolve Kool Aid mix in approximately 1/2 cup of warm water.
Allow water to cool.
Soak doilies approximately 15 minutes - Fully submerged.
I used Ice Blue Rasberry Lemonade for this demo -
Doilies dyed with Kool Aid when fully dried compared to white.
Instant Tea Doily Dying
What you need:
- Paper doilies
- Instant Tea
- Water
- Bowl
- Coffee filters
I used one of the "water bottle" instant peach tea mix with 1/4 cup of water
Soak about 15 minutes.
Dry on coffee filters or paper towels.