I’ve just finished reading the article in FW/Oct/2009 about using tea as a wood stain. The article doesn’t address the color-fastness of the stain. How does the tea color hold up over time–does it darken, lighten, or stay the same?
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Thirty or so years ago I used a strong tea brew up to darken replacement pine parts in a Victorian pine kitchen table; basically the table needed a new leg and rail and they required colour adjustment to get a reasonable match to the old original wood.
This was a personal project and not for a client so I still have that table kicking around. The tea dyed parts have held up reasonably well and the match is still pretty good. Good enough that even now the average layperson generally doesn't spot the difference although knowledgeable woodworkers aren't so easily fooled, ha, ha. Slainte.
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