Today we will tell you how to learn how to make tea with your own hands. A kind of training, if you like. This project will not only give you an inner sense of creativity, it will also open you up to some very healthy teas that will help you in your health and will not coincidentally excite your taste buds. 
Don't know what it is? This is a completely new tradition! And we hope it inspires you to do something good. Now let's make tea!
Licorice root has many benefits: it will relieve stress, cure a sore throat, and it’s simply delicious. The best part is that it's sweet and you won't want to add more sugar if you're used to pouring a spoonful into your tea. For those who don't like licorice, fear not. The aroma of this root differs from the strong and specific smell of black licorice. 
Add about a tablespoon of licorice root to your empty tea bag. Fill the rest with mint and pull the string to close the bag.
Green tea is full of antioxidants and has many health benefits, helping to reduce the risk of cancer and keep cholesterol levels in check. Add a little more ginger, lemon, mint, and you will give a real gift to your health. 
Divide the tea bag into four parts: first add green tea, then mint, fill the third part with ginger and add lightly crushed lemon verbena on top. 
This flavor blend is for all flower lovers. If some, having only smelled the smell of this tea, would immediately want to go to the SPA, then those who have already tasted herbal tea with a slight hint of sweetness, sipping it slowly, would dream of soaking in their garden of lush roses. 
Add some white tea in a tea bag. Then put 2-3 pieces of licorice root in there for that touch of sweetness. Add 3-5 rosebuds depending on their size and add lavender to the rest. 
Parsley tea?! Yes. Don't leave yet. We know that it sounds strange, but parsley tea is very healthy. Among its known benefits, it also helps with food digestion and cardiovascular health. Let's talk about the aroma. Tip: When you drink this tea, think of it as if you are drinking broth. If you succeed and get the taste, you will definitely enjoy this loose leaf herbal tea. 
Place parsley leaves in a tea bag, then add about a tablespoon of lemon verbena.
Using a shaped hole punch, cut out pieces from paper. You need two pieces of paper for each bag. Place them together and cut a thin line in the center so the tag will hold onto the edge of your cup. 
Place a little hot glue on the tag to attach the tea bag string. Then make sure that both pieces of the tag are well glued to each other. 
DIY tea can be an extraordinary gift! 
Those who, by the will of taste or living conditions, prefer bagged tea to all other drinks, know very well what a tea bag is - this is a bag in which tea is located. Just fill the bag with hot water and you’ll have a “freshly brewed” aromatic drink! We have already discussed what this tea is, but today we want to talk in more detail about the bag itself.
We would like to note right away that, in addition to the popular bags for one-time brewing (that is, designed for one serving of tea), there are tea bags for brewing in a kettle, however, the first ones are still more common. The shape of the bags can be different: rectangular, square, round and even pyramidal, and there are also single-chamber and double-chamber variations.
An indispensable attribute of most bags is a string, which makes it convenient to take them out of the cup (and you can even squeeze them out by wrapping the string around a teaspoon with a bag). By the way, we once happened to encounter simple flat round bags without strings, which seemed very interesting to us due to their ability to fit comfortably into the bottom of a cup before pouring boiling water over it.
Most bags are made from chemically neutral filter paper (they are sometimes called filter bags), most often consisting of wood, thermoplastic and abaca fibers. Not long ago, bags made of fine-mesh plastic mesh appeared, into which large tea raw materials are packaged (fine dust will spill out of the mesh).
To prevent tea bags from spilling out, they are naturally secured. In order not to spoil the taste of tea with glue, metal staples are usually used for this purpose, and some manufacturers simply tie their bags with a string or use a thermal method using thermoplastic fiber.
To preserve the aroma of tea, many trading companies (Greenfield, Curtis, etc.) pack each bag in a separate envelope made of paper or foil.
In addition to the usual bagged tea, special bags without tea are produced - they are designed for brewing ordinary loose tea in a kettle in order to facilitate the process of washing dishes: you just need to put the required portion in the bag, then tighten it, put it in the kettle and pour boiling water over it.
Tea bags are a very convenient invention, because... saves a lot of time on brewing. Today you will learn what tea bags are made of so that they pass water well, do not change the taste of tea and do not dissolve in boiling water.
A tea bag is basically a small bag made of special filter paper that contains tea. It is used to quickly brew tea with boiling water or hot water.
The most common are rectangular bags, which can be single-chamber or double-chamber, but there are other shapes, for example, pyramidal.
The bag is usually closed with a metal clip, because glue would adversely affect the taste of the tea. Some manufacturers do not close the bag, but simply tie it with thread.
Do you know what they produce? tea bags without tea? They are sold in various sizes, for two or three spoons of dry tea leaves - they allow you to brew any tea (it is simply poured into a bag, which is then tied with a thread) and are simply intended to increase the convenience of brewing and facilitate subsequent cleaning of the brewing accessories.
The most common composition of tea bag filter paper is:
Such filter paper allows water to pass through well, is chemically neutral, does not affect the taste of tea in any way, does not contain water-soluble components, does not dissolve in water itself and does not release anything into it.
Recently, some manufacturers (in particular, Lipton) have begun to produce tea in bags made of fine mesh plastic mesh. The pores of the mesh are significantly larger than filter paper; it does not filter out fine dust, so it is only suitable for relatively coarsely chopped raw materials.
Usually, for the production of tea bags, low-quality small-leaf tea or the so-called “category D leaf” (dust, waste left over from the production of loose leaf tea) is used, often making up for the shortcomings in the aroma and taste of the raw materials with flavorings and flavoring additives.
The benefits of tea bags are most often associated with the convenience of brewing tea, for example:
But despite the convenience associated with brewing, tea bags also have their disadvantages:
Despite the disadvantages noted above, bagged tea is widespread throughout the world and its share in the overall tea market is constantly growing. In Europe, the share of bagged tea is about 77%, and in England, which is known for its rich tea traditions, currently up to 90% of all tea consumption comes from bagged tea.
Sometimes I'm itching to "reinvent the wheel." Don’t go on the Internet and take advantage of the ready-made fruits of human thought, but disassemble/figure it out yourself, with your own hands...
This is what happened with paper bags. After all, there are diagrams on the Internet! But no, I picked up the paper and began to twirl it, remembering how it looked when “from the store,” and how it can be done. It’s possible! Moreover, you can do it “by eye”, without a ruler or marking the sheet - just fold it carefully so that the edges of the paper are parallel to each other.
I made these New Year’s bags from “designer paper” made using the hot decoupage method (I will give the “recipe” in the next post):
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So, a master class on paper bags is for those who are interested in making not only gifts, but also packaging with their own hands.
1. Take a sheet of paper. I took a regular, white, A4 size. We also need narrow double-sided tape or glue.
We wrap the edge of the sheet, slightly wider than the strip of tape. We fold the other edge towards it so that it slightly overlaps the first fold (approximately 1-2 mm)
2. Glue the edge using double-sided tape. You can also use glue, but make sure that it does not leak over the edges and wait until it dries.
3. Decide how thick your package will be - we determine it by eye. And carefully bend our paper “tube”, keeping the edges parallel. This is how we get smooth edges of our “parallelepiped”.
4. Make an inward fold on the sides of the bag. We align the edge to the edge so that it is parallel.
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5. Now we make the bottom of the bag. We look at the side part and measure from below a distance approximately equal to the width of the side. We bend the bottom of the bag first in one direction, then in the opposite direction.
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6. We make the bottom like an envelope - as if we were packing a box in paper: we wrap the corners inward at 45 0.
We glue the “ears” with double-sided tape or regular glue.
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7. To make the top of the paper bag look neater, fold the edge inward. In addition, if we want to make a bag with handles, then it will be stronger.
We make handles from tape - using a needle or through holes (if you have a hole punch).
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Homemade paper bags are also good because you don’t have to make ordinary handles, but use your imagination - for example, stretch a ribbon through one or two pairs of holes and tie a bow:
Or wrap the top of the bag a couple of times and secure it with tape (loose tea is often packaged in a similar way, only instead of tape there is a flexible strip with wire).
For herbal tea, I made these bags from colored office paper. Kraft bags look good (in combination with red ribbons or white lace). You can make bags from magazines or last year's calendars... And my friend makes them from ebru paper: .
Have a nice pre-holiday effort!
Oksana Shapkarina
Making tea bags.Well, you won’t find out how to make a tea bag everywhere! When buying tea bags, we do not know what its quality is. You never know what they grind there. But you can find a way out. For example, buy special bags for brewing tea in the store or make them yourself....:)
And so, let's see......
You will need filter paper, thread, plain paper and delicious tea. Did you know that tea bags used to be made of silk? But this was too expensive. Then they began to use gauze for this, and then in 1929, filter paper. It has unique properties: it has high water resistance and low density.
Tea bags come in different shapes. The British love the round ones, which lie at the bottom of the mug and infuse the tea with flavor in stages. There are pyramidal packages, but we will make a two-chamber one.
Follow photo instructions.
For one bag, you will need a piece of filter paper twice the length of the bag and twice the width.
Draw fold lines as shown in the photo.
Bend along the lines and fold the bag as shown in the photo.
Place tea to taste in a bag.
All that remains is to fasten it. You can use a stapler, you can use thread. The main thing is not to use glue.
Now let's print and cut out tags for bags on which you can write the name of the tea variety. Bend along the dotted line, insert the thread from the bag inside and glue the two sides of the tag together.
You can also use this option:
These homemade bags are so cute and would make a wonderful and original gift! Here's how you can make them...
- coffee filters;
- scissors;
- a sewing machine (in extreme cases, you can get by with a needle and thread);
- stapler;
- floss for embroidery;
- paper for the tag;
- cinnamon, ground ginger, mint, thyme and other herbs (optional).
Step 1: Cut out rectangles from two coffee filters. You can simply cut off the ribbed part.
Step 2: Sew the filters on three sides, leaving one of the smallest sides open.
Step 3: Fill the bag with brewed tea. I use 1-2 teaspoons, depending on the size of the bag and how strong you like your tea. (You can also add half a teaspoon of herbs).
Step 4: Sew the open part of the tea bag. It should now be stitched on 4 sides!
Step 5: Fold the corners as shown in the photo. Hide the end of embroidery floss 5-6 centimeters long under one corner.
Step 6: Fold the top end down and secure with a stapler (you can stitch this part if you want).
Step 7: Cut out paper tags and glue, sew, or “staple” them to the end of the floss.
To make a cup of tea, fill the bag with hot water and let steep for 3-5 minutes...and enjoy!!!
And these bags are hand knitted and sewn from silk, that’s also an option....:)))
