Thursday TeaDay 10/15/09 Homeland teaware?

[Trey Winston]

Norwegian teaware is almost a contradiction in terms. We tend to drink c*ffee, not tea. So no, I don't have any.

Awww but there is all that lovely Bodum so close by and I bet you have some beautiful tea trays.

Well, I suppose there could be some trays around. No doubt they are all made from untreated pine, like everything else that gets manufactured in this country.

[Victoria]

Guess I missed the second part of the question -
Yes, at least a few but reflect another country's culture/style. Since they are handless tea cups/bowls, the are reflective of an Asian design.

Frozen Summit Oolong in my cup currently.

[Saifuddin]

My mother has a teapot made from Icelandic clay. It's called Lava pottery, or something similar, so you can imagine weather in reflects it's country of origin. Nothing in my cabinet though.

First flush Assam from the Orangajuli estate in my afternoon teacup right now.

[Chip]

I have never been attracted to mass produced US teaware, and potters' works that I had seen in the past have just never done anything for me. I think I finally stereotyped them to be heavy, clunky, BIG mugs.

Recently our own TeawareArtisans have opened my eyes. Most pieces I am attracted to clearly have a fusion of cultures built in, some leaning way to the Japanese side, some simply showing Japanese/Asian influence. But I was surprised to count 9 different US artisans (I think these are all US anyway). 7 of these are our TeawareArtisans.

Moss, Chicago Potter, ColoradoPu, Cory Lum, ShyRabbit, ElmStudios, Little Pig. Also from Jayzo and Mahoggle.

And I am definitely hoping to add to this list very soon!

[Geekgirl]

See? I told ya it's not all from Japan. Heh.

Two tea articles from potters in the States. I use the pitcher for chai, because it keeps it hot for sooooo long. This is very dense stoneware, which I preheat with boiling water. Sometimes I use it for my water for gyokuro for the same reason. If I place a small cup in the mouth of the pitcher, it will keep my water hot at between 160/170 for several steeps. Very convenient.

Pitcher by Karen at One Wintry Night on Etsy.

Cup is by KH Phillips on Etsy.

[Chip]

If I place a small cup in the mouth of the pitcher, it will keep my water hot at between 160/170 for several steeps. Very convenient.

HA, I do the same thing! That pitcher is amazin'!

Began the TD btw with Hatsumi from O-Cha.

Next experimented with Fuji the Ultimate from Zencha. Thanks to BrLarson for sharing his experience with me with this sencha. Brewed at 140* after preheating everything, came out realllly quite nice!

[Dreamer]

American teaware...let's see...the cups from my everyday dishes are just right for a small cup of black tea, two larger cups and two chawan from an etsy artisan, two teapots from Adagio, other various teapots of unknown pedigree, and my absolute favorite "American" teaware are the ceramic picture mugs I designed myself (at http://www.walgreens.com).

Tea today so far...Neela Nilgiri from Tao of Tea...I love this one and describe it as a "greener sort of black", but this morning my son said "this tastes like grass clippings", but he did drink it. Later at work I had some Tulsi tea. This afternoon there must be some Japanese green!

Happy sipping,
Dreamer

P.S. GeekGirl...love that pitcher, now I must have one!

[Victoria]

Geek - That pitcher is stunning!! Wow!!

Dreamer - Glad you like the Neela. It is 'green' for a black. My favorite Nilgiri. I just reordered and am going to try their Kali Cha Oolong.

[battra]

I mostly drink sencha from japanese cups, but when I drink black tea I usually bring out my swedish teacups, for example this one:

[kymidwife]

I'm developing quite a nice collection of teaware. I love and use a variety of yunomi, some being of Japanese origin, and some from our own local artisans. I have a fantastic mountain landscape yunomi from Splitfirepottery which seems very homeland authentic in its design... an earth and water tea bowl/ yunomi from Elmstudios, a texture and crawl yunomi from Redgateceramics, a monk's cup from Mossbeachceramics and an absolutely stunning HUGE yunomi from Mahoggle (on Etsy, still trying to get him to come to TeaChat) which I use almost every day.

I have 8 items in my Etsy shopping cart... including what I hope will be my first Corylum piece. The recent Hagi special offers have kept me from pulling the trigger. Ouch, my budget!

Traditional roast Dong Ding in my Mahoggle yunomi... so good on this chilly, rainy, dreary day.

Sarah

[Victoria]

I'm developing quite a nice collection of teaware. I love and use a variety of yunomi, some being of Japanese origin, and some from our own local artisans. I have a fantastic mountain landscape yunomi from Splitfirepottery which seems very homeland authentic in its design... an earth and water tea bowl/ yunomi from Elmstudios, a texture and crawl yunomi from Redgateceramics, a monk's cup from Mossbeachceramics and an absolutely stunning HUGE yunomi from Mahoggle (on Etsy, still trying to get him to come to TeaChat) which I use almost every day.

I have 8 items in my Etsy shopping cart... including what I hope will be my first Corylum piece. The recent Hagi special offers have kept me from pulling the trigger. Ouch, my budget!

Traditional roast Dong Ding in my Mahoggle yunomi... so good on this chilly, rainy, dreary day.

Sarah

Mahoggle? I never heard of him? Did you show your pieces in show off?
For me this afternoon Luanze Oolong from Tea Masters Blog. In a sweet porcelain cup from a set I bought from Rikyu.

[brad4419]

Nope, I don't have any teaware from the US. Nothing local I have seen has interested me at all and is usually over priced.

green chai today

[horsencl]

I've got one piece I bought off of Etsy that was technically made by an American artist but it is a Yunomi so I don't really count it as much. All the rest are Asian. My family is VERY Irish though so I do hope to one day obtain a traditional teaset from that homeland.

[kymidwife]

Mahoggle? I never heard of him? Did you show your pieces in show off?

Ask and you shall receive. I'll post some others in the show-off thread too. Hard to capture the color, but some of the spots on the glaze are actually sort of an iridescent metallic copper color.



It's really lovely. The other shots will show some close-ups of the glaze too... it's developing a nice patina in the crackle inside.

Sarah

[Victoria]

Ohhh very nice Sarah!! Thanks for posting!!