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Engineered Garments tea spec

Chinese tea · swatches, stitch, stock numbers

The page is made of cloth and stitching

Thirty-four Chinese teas laid on patched canvas and denim, captioned the way a garment is captioned: lot, season, origin, stock number.

Dark cubes of pressed pu-erh paste arranged on patched olive and denim cloth with white running stitch and a mono utility caption

Seven categories, cut and joined

7 teas · 5 categories

The swatch as a garment

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Why this shop shows its seams

Every surface here is a material sample rather than a background, which means the page is assembled the way a jacket is: panels cut, laid next to each other, joined with a stitch you are meant to see. That makes the caption honest work instead of decoration — lot, season, stock number, origin — because a spec label is what holds an assembled thing together. The colours come from workwear stock, olive and indigo and brick and undyed cotton, all of them muted enough that dry leaf keeps its own tone on top. Tea is graded, dated and traced in almost the same language as cloth, so the two vocabularies sit on one sheet without translation. Charcoal roast, elevation and harvest read like fabric weight, mill and finish. Nothing is styled to look rustic; the seams are visible because the construction is the subject.