Chinese tea · olive canvas, badge, spec sheet
Every tea comes with its own spec sheet
Garment-dyed olive canvas, an embroidered compass badge, callouts on leader lines. Thirty-four Chinese teas documented as materials under test.
Chinese tea · olive canvas, badge, spec sheet
Garment-dyed olive canvas, an embroidered compass badge, callouts on leader lines. Thirty-four Chinese teas documented as materials under test.
7 teas · 5 categories
The callout with a leader line is the plainest way to attach a fact to a place on an object, and dry tea is an object with many places: the tip, the twist, the fracture, the sheen. Garment dye leaves a cloth uneven, and that unevenness is kept rather than corrected, in the same way a hand-processed tea is not made uniform. The badge is the only closed shape on the page, so it can hold the lot number and the series without a panel or a box. Mono type is used throughout because it aligns in columns without effort and because it reads as recorded rather than composed. Olive sits between the greens and the browns of the range, so a spring green and an aged dark tea both keep their colour against it. Care symbols and serial numbers stay in the corners, where a real garment label would put them.