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Draft — 7 of 34 teas designed in this style. Ask us to finish it
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Chinese tea, drawn as a spec sheet

The leaf annotated like a garment panel

Thirty-four Chinese teas laid out as technical documents: numbered callouts, pattern contours, swatch chips and coordinates in moss, sage and bone.

Loose red tea photographed from above inside a technical drawing with numbered leader lines, pattern contours and mono labels in moss and bone

Seven categories, one system

7 teas · 5 categories

Green teaGreen tea1 teaOolongOolong3 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)1 teaPu-erhPu-erh1 teaTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)1 tea

Wear the pattern panel

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Wear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng PáoWear — Gong Ting Pu-erhGong Ting Pu-erhWear — Hēi JīnHēi JīnWear — Mòlì Lǒng ZhúMòlì Lǒng ZhúWear — Nǎi Xiāng OolongNǎi Xiāng Oolong

Why the pages read like documentation

The page is built the way a pattern sheet is built: a specimen in the middle, leader lines running out of it, and every claim reduced to a labelled field. Origin, elevation, grade, process and tasting notes are set in mono capitals so they read as measurements rather than persuasion. Colour is limited to a workwear range of moss, sage, bone and charcoal, with one gold chip and one red rule, which keeps attention on the drawing. Crosshairs and system codes in the margins admit the sheet is a printed document, not a window. Chinese tea fits this because it is already documented that way in the trade, by mountain, altitude, oxidation and year. Treating the leaf as a component to be specified is more honest than photographing it in steam and calling it a ritual.