CARD – Plantable Tea Card – Lemon Thyme and Savory (Ուրց)

Elevate your stationery by sending a card no one can forget. This handmade tea card is crafted with seeds of lemon thyme, mountain savory, and summer savory. Ուրց (pronounced "urts") both refers to the herb "thyme," which was a symbol of courage and heavily used by the Armenians in ancient times for its medicinal properties, as well as to the common name for the aromatic tea that is widely enjoyed today. In Armenia, urts tea is often blended with another herb: savory, a shrub-like herb in the mint family, which has a delicate earthy and stimulating aroma. The front of this tea card is painted with mineral pigments and egg yolk, employing Medieval techniques used in religious iconography and Armenian manuscript painting. It depicts a lion passant (a lion with a single forepaw raised). Lions are symbols of power, might, and bravery, which is why they were included in the family crests of several Armenian royal houses, including the Bagratuni and the Sumbatians. Similarly, thyme symbolize