Tea leaves

Tea bush Camellia sinensis

Description

A natural brown dye obtained from the leave of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis and Thea sinensis). A hot water extract of the leaves produces a dark brown liquid that dyes wool a light brown to rose brown color. Tea dye has good color fastness on wool but not on cotton.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Camellia sinensis; Thea sinensis; te (Dan., Nor., Sven.); Tee (Deut.); hojas de t (Esp.); th (Fr.); t (It.); thee (Ned.); herbata (Pol.); folhas de ch (Port.); tea dust; tea bags

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  Tea bush Camellia sinensis

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  Tea leaves

Authority

• G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971

• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "tea" Encyclopdia Britannica Premium Service. [Accessed 28 Sept. 2005].

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea (Accessed Sept. 28, 2005)

• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Douglas M. Considine (ed.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1976

• Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998