Explorations in Tea

Reed Slater, solo artist and founder of Teascarf Brooklyn, making tea-printed art

What It's Like to Be a Solo Artist Running a Brand

I make the art, take the photos, write the copy and pack the orders. What it's like to run a brand as one person.

What It's Like to Be a Solo Artist Running a Brand

I make the art, take the photos, write the copy and pack the orders. What it's like to run a brand as one person.

Woman in the New York Subway watching D train

Why Brooklyn Is the Right Place to Make This

Brooklyn shows up in the work whether I intend it or not. Rare Earth looks like Brooklyn to me.

Why Brooklyn Is the Right Place to Make This

Brooklyn shows up in the work whether I intend it or not. Rare Earth looks like Brooklyn to me.

Close detail of hand-rolled edge on a tea-printed silk scarf — Teascarf Brooklyn

What Hand-Rolled Edges Actually Mean

Hand-rolled edges take longer and look different up close. More finished, with a softness a machine hem doesn't have. It's how the highest-end scarves have always been finished.

What Hand-Rolled Edges Actually Mean

Hand-rolled edges take longer and look different up close. More finished, with a softness a machine hem doesn't have. It's how the highest-end scarves have always been finished.

Reed Slater in his Brooklyn studio — every order over $50 includes an original tea print on paper

The Original Tea Print You Get With Every Order

Every order over $50 includes an original 4x6" tea print on paper, signed and dated. It's the thing I actually touched. Most people keep them.

The Original Tea Print You Get With Every Order

Every order over $50 includes an original 4x6" tea print on paper, signed and dated. It's the thing I actually touched. Most people keep them.

Model with Teascarf Brooklyn silk scarves on a bridge — selling direct, not through galleries

Why I Started Selling Online Instead of Through...

Galleries take a percentage and tell a version of your story. Selling direct means I know exactly who has these scarves. Some of them have written to me. I'll take...

Why I Started Selling Online Instead of Through...

Galleries take a percentage and tell a version of your story. Selling direct means I know exactly who has these scarves. Some of them have written to me. I'll take...

Model wearing Calm Camomile silk scarf at the Metropolitan Museum fountain — wearable art, Teascarf Brooklyn

What Is Wearable Art?

Each scarf started as a real painting. That painting no longer exists. The scarf is what's left. Whether you call that wearable art is up to you.

What Is Wearable Art?

Each scarf started as a real painting. That painting no longer exists. The scarf is what's left. Whether you call that wearable art is up to you.