Sister Ai's Qianjiazhai Mountain Gongfu Tea Set
Sister Ai's Qianjiazhai Mountain Gongfu Tea Set (Collaboration with @Bolitashi and Sister Ai) What is a Gongfu Tea Set? Gongfu Teamaking goes back over 1000 years, originating in Chaozhou in Guangdong Province, China. With a little practice, this technique of making tea in a lidded cup and filtering into a pitcher not only greatly improves the quality of the tea experience, but also can be a surprisingly relaxing and meditative hobby. This set contains everything you need to get started, both for making tea yourself, and for friends. What's In The Case? This set is a three-way collaboration between: Jesse's Teahouse; Sister Ai, our Yunnan tea farmer partner, and @Bolitashi, an LA-Based Chinese artist with experience in Shan Shui Hua, traditional Chinese landscape painting. Using the tea trees, mountains, waterfalls, and architecture of Sister Ai's tea mountain as inspiration, @Bolitashi and Jesse worked to design a tea set in the traditional blue-white porcela