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Strapwork

Chinese tea · workwear study

Straps hold the leaf in place

Every sheet harnesses the tea: canvas webbing, a cord, a punched tag, and then nothing. Utility first, tea second, decoration never.

A dense pu'er clump wrapped in indigo and off-white canvas webbing with red and blue cords and blank punched plastic tags

The catalogue in seven bundles

34 teas · 7 categories

Green teaGreen tea5 teasOolongOolong14 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)6 teasPu-erhPu-erh4 teasWhite teaWhite tea2 teasTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)2 teasBuckwheat (not a tea)Buckwheat (not a tea)1 tea

Wear built from the same webbing

All tees and hoodies →

Wear — Ālǐshān Zhū Lù CháĀlǐshān Zhū Lù CháWear — Bái JiānBái JiānWear — Passion-Fruit OolongPassion-Fruit OolongWear — Raw Pu-erh PasteRaw Pu-erh PasteWear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng Páo

Why the leaf arrives tied up

One gesture runs through the whole shop: something loose gets harnessed so it can be carried. Webbing, cord and a blank stamped tag are the only ornament, and they are photographed as real objects on real leaf rather than drawn on afterwards. Indigo does the signalling, so a blue strap reads before any word does, with one red cord left in for tension. The name is stencilled in short stacked lines because that is how a shipping mark goes onto a crate, not because stencils look loud. A pressed clump of ripe pu'er suits the treatment best: it already arrives as a bundle that has to be broken open.