teabag folding

[christmaslovingbluealien]

is there a point to this?

...i still don't get why its called teabag folding!!!! (something historical no doubt!!!)

Dare I ask what it is???? I have visions of someone doing an odd version of origami with a box of PG Tips......

he he he...it's a technique used in card making, yes, very similar to origami....not a technique I use or like much personally.

have a look here

It looks very fiddly and time-consuming. I would never have that kind of patience.

Thanks for the link. You really do learn something new every day on here.

why, why, why oh why would anyone who wasn't in a gulag or mentally ill do this?

And they say lifes too short to stuff a mushroom!

i'm always afraid to admit what i hate on Mumsnet...'case i offend!!!

It's absolutely nothing to do with teabags apparently!!! it's just to do with tesselations and patterns from what I can see, so seems like a reasonable enough thing to me...

Must admit that I thought it involved the PG tips too.

Must be bl%%dy difficult with pyramid bags !!!

you see i love decoupage...which is tediously cutting pictures and layering them up....and i know people either love or hate that!!!

I could sit for hours cutting out pictures....find it very relaxing....yet there are some crafts that i cannot bear to try!!!

They only call it tea-bag folding because it was (allegedly) invented by a man who used the decorative paper from his packets of tea to make the patterns.

I like it, a friend of my MIL's does it and some of the cards she makes are really intricate and pretty. If I had the patience and the ability (and the time) it's something I'd quite like to try ... whether that says anything about my mental state is neither here nor there

jaysmum...c'mon...you'll know the origin of teabagging.....come on ...wherever you are!

It takes all sort of people....not my cup of tea either!! But I am still trying to work of the mushroom thing..never heard that before and I LUUUURVE stuffed mushroom!

must admit i love them when they are layered and embossed...still haven't made one myself tho!

i think if it had a different name i might find it more appealing

Thank goodness it's not just me then! It sounds like something you'd do when guests came for tea. "I'll have the Tetley please. Make mine a swan."

Apologies to any teabagging fans out there.

you lot have me really into crafty things now.
[sticking tongue out at you emoticon]

DingleBells,

"Life's too short to stuff a mushroom" is a quotation from a book which was published when I was younger (I'm an oldie on here).

I think it was from SuperWoman by Shirley Conran.

I'm off to find a link. see you here soon.

I'm going now! Should be getting on with making my xmas cards...but my mind is on other things!
Funny enough I have a cuppa sitting out there, in the conservatory, surrounded by all my card making goodies...just waiting for me!

Thanks easy, I've learnt something today too then!

Wasn't it down to the fact that they used to package loose tea in folded up paper something like that ? I remember seeing that somewhere in a craft mag

You lot fold your teabags? Oh dear oh dear.