Chinese tea · webbing, stamps, coordinates
The tea is laid straight onto the webbing
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed on black nylon and annotated like freight — stencil grotesk, batch and lot numbers, coordinates and one gold accent.
Chinese tea · webbing, stamps, coordinates
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed on black nylon and annotated like freight — stencil grotesk, batch and lot numbers, coordinates and one gold accent.
7 teas · 5 categories
Utility clothing is designed around a load: where it sits, how it is fastened, how much it weighs. Tea arrives the same way — netted, strapped, stamped and numbered — and the paperwork survives the journey better than the packaging does. Laying the leaf directly on the webbing puts those two facts in one frame, with no styling in between. The stencil grotesk is wide and flush because a crate stencil has to read at a distance and cannot afford a curve. Grey on black with one gold is a legibility decision as much as a palette: the gold goes where a tea actually has golden buds in it. The coordinates, the batch and the date are the same fields a real consignment carries, which is why they are printed large instead of tucked into a corner.