A Perfect Devil

Yesterday I tried experimenting with dying more of my cotton tatting threads. I used some different kind of teas, trying to get some mottled pink and ecru colors going on. They really don't sell any good crochet thread in colors here, they sell acrylic crochet thread but you really can't use that stuff for tatting because it won't stand up to the tension and snap. The only colors I can find around here are white, off white, dark red, and that is it. I would like to work with some gray threads but they don't have them here, and it's far too expensive for me to buy specialty made tatting thread on line, or buy a few skeins of dmc pearl embroidery threads which is even more expensive.