A registry of tea mascots

This is a registry, not a universe. Each figure on these pages is a record: a real tea, a real custom, a real craft — with a passport that says what is verified and what is invented. Nine keepers close the tea year between them; fifty-six records collect the tea customs of the 56 ethnic groups of China.

The nine — one year, no gaps

The 56 ethnic groups of China — a custom, not a rank

The unit of this set is the way tea is made or drunk. The people lives in the record as the keeper of the custom — never in a rank, never in a rarity tier. There is no secret figure in the set.

Print files, open

Every figure here is made to be printed, and the file that prints it is published with the numbers behind it — spool codes, hours, grams, measured on a real slicer. Files and passports →

Scenes

Two figures, one shared piece of work between them. The relation is read from distance, never from touch. Eight scenes of the first wave →