A funny story about Tea Staining. several years ago I was visiting my family and my SIL was making cloth dolls for a lady. She brought the fabric. Well before us girls could take off for a week end camp out we had to make 200 dolls -the fabric felt weird-kind of like a dry -sticky yuk and it looked nasty. We washed and bleached the day lights out of it. On our way out for our week end we dropped the dolls off and the lady could not believe what we had done-she spent a whole day tea staining all that fabric. She only paid my SIL 1/2 of the deal. When this lady got back from her flea mkt travels -she called and wanted more of the bleached dolls. She only sold 1 tea doll and 200 bleached one's. She doubled the money on those and future dolls and paid her to bleach the 199 dolls she could not sell. We ended up camping for 5 days to recuperate- I did most of the sewing while SIL painted the faces and hands on each doll -then we stuffed them and hand stitched them closed all in 4 days.