Teawares and Equipment
Teacups, teapots, and anything used to enjoy tea and prepare tea.
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What Makes Music into “Tea Music”?
Before we get to discuss what would define music as tea music, we first need to answer the question, whether there is such thing as “tea music” at all. It seems that while music seems to be rarely composed for the particular purpose of being tea music, some of the music that is basically produced Continue reading
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Are Your Tea Towels Thirsty?
Tea towels are handy to have around the kitchen. They suck up spills, dry our dishes, and generally keep things neat and dry. If you don’t use them enough, though, they can get a bit thirsty! Don’t panic. No one is advocating that you engage in spilling things (especially not your tea) just to save Continue reading
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5 Teacup Styles Explored
Teacups come in a wide array of sizes and shapes. They all have that essential characteristic: being able to hold tea liquid. But from there they cover quite a design spectrum. To keep this down to a manageable size (we’re talking blog article here, not doctoral dissertation), I will limit my coverage here to five Continue reading
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Teapot Styles — Bone China Beauties
The popularity of tea through the ages has spurred the development of new materials, plus new techniques for working with them, to create perfect steeping and pouring teapots. Bone china is one such material — a result of experimentation and lots of sweat and ingenuity. First, let me answer that oft asked question: Yes, there Continue reading
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5 Reasons to Use a Kyusu Teapot
Recently, I listed why a cast iron teapot, popular in Japan, is a good tea steeping option. Time to look at another teapot style also popular in Japan: the kyusu. The word “kyusu” means “teapot.” Many have the handle set at a 90-degree angle to the spout. These are yokode kyūsu (横手急須, side hand(le) teapot) Continue reading
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Why Do Some Teacups Have Feet?
Awhile back, a regular reader of this blog asked about teacup designs, having seen some of the articles about teapot styles. That led me to wondering about something that has puzzled tea drinkers like that reader and me for a long time: why do some teacups have feet? First of all, this is not like Continue reading
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Teapot Styles — Victorian
Teapot styles tend to parallel the styles of other objects, from buildings, to art works, to furniture and clothing. Since the era of Queen Victoria ushered in the Afternoon Tea (credited to Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, one of Queen Victoria’s ladies-in-waiting), how appropriate to take a look at teapot styles from that period. Time Continue reading
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Yixing – The One and Only or Just Another Teapot?
Imagine you just recently entered the world of tea, you have already managed to collect quite an assortment of black, green, Oolong, and even white, and yellow teas, you have only started digging a little deeper into the old Chinese tea tradition, and now, you’ve learnt that what you need to prepare your tea the Continue reading
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In Search of the First Tea Bag Patent
There is a commonly accepted tale for the origin of the tea bag, one that I’ve written about at this site and elsewhere. I’ve also seen it mentioned countless other times in many other places. I’ll kick off this article by giving a very brief version of the story. Sometime around 1904 or 1907 or Continue reading
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5 Reasons to Use a Cast Iron Teapot
Awhile back I unabashedly waxed rhapsodic about my little cast iron teapot from Japan. Others before and since have done the same. So, just what is so special about these teapots that they would inspire such a reaction from their users? I found five reasons. You may have more. 1 Appearance Designed as much for Continue reading
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