![complete cosy with clasps to hold top to bottom](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/For-a-thousand-tongues-adjusted--282x300.jpg)
Progressive shots showing the making of a tea cosy for the Belfast a show of tea cosies at the Ulster Museum and Art gallery, Belfast
![tea pot prepared for paper mache moulding with plasticine and tape to mark where the cosy could split to open](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tea-Pot-1-resize-300x251.jpg)
tea pot prepared for paper mache moulding with plasticine to ensure the paper mache could be freed from the pot and tape to mark where the cosy could split to open
!['Raising' the paper mache the paper mache](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tea-cosy-2-300x289.jpg)
‘Raising’ the paper mache
![Developing the upper half including the 'tongues'](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tea-cosy-3-300x288.jpg)
Developing the upper half including the ‘tongues’
![ready for painting](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tea-Cosy-6-300x296.jpg)
ready for painting
![complete cosy with clasps to hold top to bottom](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/For-a-thousand-tongues-adjusted--282x300.jpg)
completed cosy with clasps to hold top to bottom
![detail showin tongue stud](http://chrismurray.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DSCF0468-300x225.jpg)
detail showing tongue stud