Chinese tea · dyed grounds, quiet type
The ground is dyed the colour of the cup
Thirty-four Chinese teas laid on dyed cloth grounds — ochre, bone, warm grey — each with one line of service copy in small caps and nothing else on the sheet.
Chinese tea · dyed grounds, quiet type
Thirty-four Chinese teas laid on dyed cloth grounds — ochre, bone, warm grey — each with one line of service copy in small caps and nothing else on the sheet.
34 teas · 7 categories
Each ground is dyed to the colour the tea gives up in the cup, so the sheet is already a tasting note before a word is read. Natural dye behaves like tea does: it is uneven, it drifts at the edges, and it changes with the batch, which is why the wash is left visible instead of being flattened. The type is small and low-contrast because the leaf is the largest thing here and anything louder would compete with it. One letterspaced line carries origin, altitude and season — the four facts that actually change how a tea tastes — and no adjectives are added to them. There is no outline, no frame and no second colour, so the only edge on the page is the edge of the leaf itself. The pale white-tea sheet is deliberately close to invisible, because that tea is picked before it has any colour to give.