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[StartQuote] Ted, No fabric was thin enough to to be used and any fabric weave would be too coarse. While thinking about this a trying various approaches I staring at my usual cup of tea and soggy tea bag and noticed how, unlike tissue paper, tea bag paper is resilient even after sitting in hot water for a long time. Also, after the tea bag sat on a saucer for a while it has a great slumpy look of well used ife jacket. That was the solution and became what you see, A single tea bag yields 4 jackets per bag based on a pattern I created. Each jacket is a single cut of material that is folded, stuffed with cotton,and glued. The collars are made of styrene rod that is heated and curled, cut and sanded to the general shape you see. The collars ties and vest straps are also made of tea bag material glued on after the jacket body is complete. As I mentioned there is more to explain of course and I will make the details of this process and the pattern available soon. Bridge [EndQuote]
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