You will definitely enjoy traveling with your favorite tea utensils. The question is how to protect it, pack it, transport it, just don’t break it. Try Care For Teaware! With teapots around the globe Care for Teaware stands for practical and beautiful handmade pieces for tea ceremonies – both in tea rooms and outdoors. The […]
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Object Teapot – Tea Pottery by Hanka Vrbicová
I would like to start this text with an engaging story about being a passionate tea connoisseur who has been drinking selected tea in the cradle… Unfortunately, I do not have such a nice story up my sleeve. I came to pottery and tea pottery in such way that I just landed in it somehow. Well, […]
Postcovid Flush – what happened in Darjeeling
We managed to buy some great teas, which were produced in Darjeeling before the gardens closed in March this year. Until March 24, when a “lockdown” occurred across India, only a very small amount of tea was harvested. Pandemic versus hopeful tea season The weather was good for growers this year, so a very good […]
It’s all about water
It’s been some time since we did our last test of water. Travelling around the Czech lands we collected various water samples and went on to test them straight away. It’s been proven many times before, and we have confirmed it again: the water you put in your tea really matters. Water Sources We tested […]
Tree is not wood under bark – tea trays by Vlasta Hanuš
We are fascinated by people who create things with their own hands – something we can touch and use in our daily lives. Wood is a great accessory for tea – it also is a woody plant after all… Vlasta Hanuš makes tea trays and tables, which you can admire in our shop. […]
The Sakhejung Garden – the Story of Mrs Milan
This story started around 2000. There were very few tea factories in Nepal, but tea farming was on a rise: new gardens sprang up like mushrooms and thousands of small farmers started growing tea. However, there was no one who would process the leaves and, inevitably, their price was falling rapidly. Within a couple of […]
Jarda Marek – fires in an anagama kiln!
Let us introduce another gifted Czech potter, Jarda Marek, who fires tea pottery in a wood-kiln. And not just any wood-kiln, but an anagama. Jarda was born in 1984 and was introduced to pottery making as early as primary school. “When studying at a college of applied arts in Český Krumlov I discovered wood-fired pottery and […]