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Teapots
2007-08-06 12:01:00
The teapot, as we know it today, derived from ancient Chinese ceramic kettles and wine pots made of bronze and other materials. The oldest teapot that still exists today is the one made in 1513 from Yixing clay by Gongchun. It is kept in Hong Kong Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware.From the end of 17th century tea and porcelain teapots were shipped from China to Europe. Most of those teapots were painted in blue and white underglaze. It means that the decoration was put to the surface before it is glaze. First porcelain similar to the Chinese was produced in 1765 by William Cookworthy in Plymouth, UK. Teapot in space...well, there is the constellation of Sagittarius which by many resembles a teapot...See for yourself...

Flowering tea
2007-08-04 08:30:00
Flowering or blooming tea is made by hand-sewing green tea leaves into small, silvery green balls around various flowers like for example amaranth, carnation, jasmine, chrysantemums, rose and marigold. Such ball is then dried.When added to water, at the boiling point, flower tea ball will slowly open or let's say "blossom". Such tea can be refreshed 10-15 times by adding more water...
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Yerba Mate tea
2007-08-03 17:01:00
Hello everyone!! New weekend has started...Today I'll write very little. Instead of me writing today I put a video about famous southamerican Yerba Mate Tea. Have fun!!source : Nativa Yerba Mate

Diamond tea bag
2007-08-02 18:28:00
British tea company PG Tips celebrated its 75th company with a rather special tea bag. In three months Boodles jewellers made for them a tea bag using 280 diamonds. The diamond tea bag is worth £ 7,500. The bag will be sold and the money will go to Manchester Children's Hospitals.source : Ananova
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Really big tea party
2007-08-01 15:08:00
Well, anyone interested to go to a tea party...As to Guinness World Records the largest simultaneous tea party consisted of 14,718 people drinking powdered green tea (matcha) according to the Japanese tea ceremony and was arranged by the city of Nishio and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nishio, in Nishio-city, Aichi, Japan, on October 8, 2006.
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Tea and haiku poetry
2007-07-31 12:12:00
Haiku, traditionally Japanese poetic form, certainly includes some examples of tea as motive.The most famous poet of Japanese Edo period Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) wrote a poem "A monk sips morning tea". Here it is translated by Robert Hass.A monk sips morning tea,it's quiet,the chrysanthemum's flowering.Here is an example of haiku by Stephen Fox...titled "Whisking tea"seamless skywinter waterwhisking teaside by sideoffering, receivingstars drift down moonlesswinter raintea bowls passedno dreamwhisking teavoice of the kettlewinter chillssweeping the tea roomvows renewedTitle: Haiku poem written in calligraphy on board about teaTime and creator unkonwnSource: California State University, Sacramento Library
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Tea and stamps
2007-07-30 13:25:00
Tea appears as a motive on stamps. I am a stamp collector but I must admit that I do not have such stamps. Still I managed to find few scans on the internet...
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Tea bag envelopes and tea labels collecting
2007-07-29 10:59:00
Hi everyone! I decided to dedicate today's post to people collecting tea bag envelopes and tea labels.Tea bag envelopes started to be more popular in 1960. They are made of paper or aluminum. They protect the tea bag from deteriorating by exterrnal agentssuch as light and humidity. They are integral part of the marketing and promotion of each company.If interested you can sea more of tea bag envelopes atKolekcja kopertek or at this Czech tea bags collector websiteTea labels are that pieces of paper located on one end of string which is connected with the tea bag itself. They are also object of collecting. The current world record holder in number of different labels collected is the German Felix Rotter. He has 10500 different tea bag lables from 93 countries. Unfortunatelly his web site only contains his personal info...nothing about his collection...It is a pity.
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Tea caddies
2007-07-28 10:56:00
Tea caddy is a decorative box created for storing tea leaves. The word is believed to be derived from catty (the English word fora traditional Chinese measurement of weight called a jin), the Chinese pound.Some of the finest tea caddies were crafted of exotic woods (mahogany, rosewood..) adorned with tortoise shell, ivory, silver etc. Tea caddies were made of brass, copper and other materials too. Large tea caddies were known as tea chest. Nowdays tea caddies are regarded as ornaments or preserved in collections.These are just some examples of tea caddies. If you want to see more just log on to World of Tea Caddy
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