The Reveal

Every tea print starts the same way.

Tea bags steeped, then arranged on watercolor paper. The paper absorbs what the tea leaves behind — pigment, water, pressure, time. You can adjust the composition while it's wet. Once it dries, it's permanent.

Then you peel the tea bag away from the paper.

You reveal what the tea left behind.

The edges, the density, the way the pigment pooled or faded — all of it decided by how the bag sat, how saturated it was, how long you waited. No two placements are identical. So no two prints are identical.

That's the moment the artwork becomes itself.

Everything that follows — the photograph, the translation to silk, the scarf — comes from that reveal. The fabric carries it forward. But it started there, on paper, when you lifted the tea bag and saw what was underneath.

— Reed Slater
Founder, Teascarf Brooklyn

See how it's made.