Chinese tea, engraved like a certificate
Every tea gets a lot number and a seal
Thirty-four Chinese teas engraved into silver-grey crests on black, with rim type, monogram roundels and a reference number under each one.
Chinese tea, engraved like a certificate
Thirty-four Chinese teas engraved into silver-grey crests on black, with rim type, monogram roundels and a reference number under each one.
3 teas · 2 categories
The reference here is engraved security printing: banknote guilloche, engine-turned rules, a rim of curved capitals, a monogram and a serial number. Silver-grey on black gives the page one metal and no colour, so the only tonal warmth comes from the leaf sitting inside the oval. Every layout carries a code, a year and a lot line, which turns the design into a record rather than an advertisement, and the pale variant proves the same structure works in hairlines on white. The club language on the rim is invented and should be read as costume, not as an offer. Chinese tea suits paperwork because it genuinely gets registered this way: pressing dates, batch numbers, storage notes, grades. A certificate around a rock oolong is an argument that the boring documents are the interesting part.