This beautiful brush is made for cleaning the inside of the teapot. I am in love with the bamboo handle so I am using it for dusting my keyboard etc, but for the tea connoisseur it is an essential item for up keeping the teapot.
The brush is used to remove any small pieces of tea leaves, for picking up the moisture left in the pot. For cleaning the hard to get to places and to give a slight polish to the pot.
DIA40xH20mm, China
After a feast of Chao Zhou food, trays of Kang Hu Te would be served in tiny cups. They are equivalent of espresso for coffee, a strong and flavorful tea best take in small dosage. They are so tasty and perfect for the digestion that one would often have one too many and end up counting sheep.
Talking about Chao Zhou food, particularly missed the local joint on the building as our shop. Unpretentious, a 4 meter square kitchen, one chef and one waiter, serving the amazing food for 40 guests cramped into the small rooms. Sadly, the chef has retired and the drawnwork yarn shop at the same premise was no longer there. Thinking about it is making my mouth water.
DIA230xH120mm, China
This bamboo weaved basket is known as a Wu Fu, a basket for storing charcoal for brewing tea. It use can be dated back to the “Book of Tea” by the Tang Dynasty scholar Gu yuan Qing. The name Wu Fu is sophisticated way of refer to the charcoal basket, the word “wu” means black, dirt – which is the charcoal, the word “fu” is a grand mansion – the humble basket.
RIM DIA160mm, China
On the Tea Horse Route, there are gangs of horse cavavanners who take up the job for transporting goods through the network of narrow mountain pathway from Yunnan. Their routes connects Beijing and other big Chinese cities to Tibet, South East Asia, India, Africa and Europe. They were the main form of trade transport before the arrival of railways and roads. Nevertheless, even today, they cavavanners are still the main porters for the Pu Erh tea of Yunnan.
The life of the cavavanners take up a lot of hardship; camping at where ever they stop, taking care of the goods and the horses, facing all sorts of danger and unexpected danger on their journey. All these made the groups unite and willful, not only do they look out for their gang members but also other gangs. The palm fiber hat is part of the gang costume that unified the group.
DIA75xH35, China
A modern day Jun ware cup. Jun ware is a type of celadon which dated back to the Tang dynasty and its popularity goes from the Sung dynasty all the way to the Qing dynasty. Its typical glaze has a spectrum of colour; rose purple, begonia red, aubergine purple, rooster blood red, grape purple, cinnabar red, spring onion green. Within these colours, there is a complexity of colours within.
Mountain Folkcraft 
