Most days will also find me indulging in several more cups of my favorite brew throughout the day. However, drinking tea is not this beverages only purpose. While tea as a drink has been around for thousands of years, it has been used for hundreds of other purposes also. Brew tea same as you would to drink, minus cream or sugar, soak fabric in liquid until it appears a bit darker than you would like the fabric to be. Keep in mind that it will lighten as it dries.
Finished items can also be tea stained in the same manner.
An old blouse, or a piece of embroidery, or just about anything you can think of, can be aged in this way. An avid bead worker, I occasionally work with porcupine quills, and have even dyed the quills using tea. A tea bag works well as a compress on swollen, puffy eyes, just make sure that they have cooled sufficiently so as not to burn. A newly blackened eye can also benefit from a tea bag compress. It will help draw the bruise out so that it heals at a much faster rate than normal.