Assembled from paper, not laid out

Why this shop looks assembled by hand

A torn edge is an admission that the page was put together rather than generated, and that admission suits a subject where the interesting facts arrive from different directions. One layer is a photograph of the leaf, another is a chop, another is a line of handwriting, another is a strip of frames from the same session — and keeping them as separate scraps is more honest than flattening them into a single polished panel. The contact strip is the most useful element on the page: five views of the same tea, dry leaf to poured cup, in the order they happened. Cream stock and one red accent hold everything together, so a dozen fragments still read as one spread. The pull-quote is set narrow and italic to mark it clearly as someone's impression rather than a measurement, which is a distinction most tea copy blurs on purpose. Anything a reader should be able to check — origin, year, grade — sits in the plain block, not in the poetry.