Every tea arrives with dimension lines

Why the tea is measured like a garment

This language treats a product as a construction drawing: nothing is shown without a number next to it. Tea takes to that better than most goods, because a tea already has the figures — origin, elevation, pick season, particle, moisture, roast level, harvest year — and they are usually hidden on the back of a pouch in six-point type. Here they run down the margin in mono, at the same weight as the seam callouts, so the spec is part of the picture instead of the fine print. The leaf is photographed flat and clipped along its own edge, which lets a dimension line touch the pile and measure it. Indigo twill is the ground because it is dark enough for a gold-tipped Fujian red and cool enough for a charcoal-roasted Wuyi oolong. Stencil caps are used only for the name, once, and never for a claim. If a figure is not verifiable it does not go on the sheet.