Chinese tea · archive sheet, hang tag, one ochre
Each tea enters the archive with its own tag
Thirty-four Chinese teas written up as archive sheets: ruled boxes for origin and grade, a hang tag on a cord, a serial number in the footer.
Chinese tea · archive sheet, hang tag, one ochre
Thirty-four Chinese teas written up as archive sheets: ruled boxes for origin and grade, a hang tag on a cord, a serial number in the footer.
7 teas · 5 categories
Resale writing has one useful habit: it records what an object is and where it has been before saying anything about how it looks. That habit is borrowed here in full — origin, grade, harvest, weight, archive number, condition — each in its own ruled box, each box the same size for every tea. Chinese tea is bought this way in practice; a spring Fujian hong-cha and a special-grade pu-erh paste are told apart by their fields, not by their photographs. The hang tag is included because it is the part of an archive that travels with the object, and it carries the handwriting rather than the design. Ochre appears once per sheet, on the monogram and the price, so it works as an index colour instead of a mood. Nothing is styled to look old: the paper is plain and the numbers are the point.