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Originally Posted by Eric H
I will have to find a way to add some color to it
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I have used tea to darken grille cloth.
I used some test patches of cloth and a couple of types of tea to pick the darkness and color blend. Not very scientific -- I put each test patch into simmering water with the tea bags and pulled it out with tweezers once in a while to see how dark it was getting. The result depends on the absorbency of your material, of course. The cloth I was replicating was tan with a very faint rosy tint, so I used one bag of black tea and one of Red Zinger.
Once you have the desired background color, I suppose you can make the stripes with stain (or dye) and a marker or artist brush. This could be practiced on your test piece, too, assuming you have enough extra wicker for experimentation. I have been told that
Fiebing's leather dye is good stuff. I bought some to try in a future project: darkening the worn areas in a molded repwood panel on an RCA World's Fair radio.
Regards,
Phil Nelson
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