African Tea Bag Art

The stains left over from tea bags inspired these tea bag art journal pages.

African tea bag art.

After adhering the image to heavyweight khadi paper with gel medium i added other bits. New product ideas incorporating the tea bag theme sprang forward. 2020 original t bag designs all rights reserved. This will focus more on not just tea bags but other discarded materials as well so it will feature art on egg shells and pistachio shells and all sorts of other materials says silvious.

After some unsuccessful attempts to make and sell paper mache products the tea concept was created in 2000 with our first product namely a greeting card. Jill heyes a former art teacher moved from england to south africa in 1996. They can change our way of looking at the world. These coasters are of the products designed by several artists who make use of tea bags as their canvas.

Rooibos especially in southern africa bush tea red tea or redbush tea predominantly in great britain. Africa imports is the largest wholesale supplier of afrocentric and ethnic products in the us. Is a broom like member of the plant family fabaceae that grows in south africa s fynbos. Her tea bag art combines painting and machine stitching.

She removes the leaves and sews the bags together into many objects including clothing. The leaves are used to make a herbal tea that is called by the names. Printed book text a scrap of passion tea stained music paper and the spine of an old book. I think it s important to make art out of almost anything antoni tapies.

Oct 1 2020 sometimes people have the idea that art should be highly refined. She hand stitched a whole bed quilt from tea bags. One person quickly became two then two became three as curiosity and a will to learn emerged from within the settlement. Original t bag designs in the beginning.

But i always believed that one could make art out of simple humble things he says. See more ideas about tea bag art tea bag tea art. This site has the biggest selection anywhere of wholesale african clothing african black soaps african artwork african musical instruments and black skincare products. She hangs teabags on ribbons to make garlands or she binds them into little books called teabag tales barbara bartlett.

Aug 6 2020 explore mj chadbourne s board tea bag art followed by 4042 people on pinterest. See more ideas about tea bag art tea bag art. I also did a quick tea bag art collage using the bird image.