Tea Wrapper Art - Materials And Supplies

For this art, you will need tea wrappers, preferably lots of them and at least 4 of the same. Most figures require 8 similar tea wrappers.

Other essential materials of tea bag folding are a cutting mat, scissors, ruler, knife or cutter, and paper adhesive. There are also metal squares/molds available which you lay on the wrapper and cut around the edges. That ensures you will always get a perfect square.

In case you can not find a wrapper which lends itself for this art, you can even use wrapping paper, thin scrapbook paper or you can buy sheets of paper online with some gorgeous designs. Just make sure that all the squares are showing the exact same pattern. The end result will come out looking more beautiful then when it doesn't.

There are several books for this art/craft available, but don't limit yourself either; try folding or even gluing the figures in all kinds of different ways. One figure can spruce up the corner of a card or paper for example.

Once you tried tea wrapper art, or tea bag art as it is called as well, you may find it to be a very enjoyable hobby. I suspect you would not mind at all being left holding these bags. :-)