Where Life Relaxes with a Cup of Tea
As a needlework artist and tea enthusiast, I’m always interested in creative ways to express my appreciation for the art of tea. For the past several months I’ve been crafting a variety of handmade tea gifts and collecting several homemade ones to give to the tea lovers on my list this Christmas season [...]
The women in my family have always been attracted to tea traditions and ceremonies. It started with my grandmother, who lived to be 104 years old; and has continued through the generations to my granddaughter, who is 3 years old and counting [...]
Britain’s ever-increasing appetite for tea brought enormous profit to the British Crown and to the East India Company. This section of Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum explores tea as a global commodity at the height of the British Empire, the development of large-scale tea plantations in northern India, and the link between tea and the Indian opium trade [...]
Traveling from Asia to the West, tea has played a variety of profound roles on the world scene—as an ancient health remedy, an element of cultural practice, and source of spiritual insight. Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum provides not only a brief introduction to tea varieties, cultivation, and production, but also tells the story of tea’s mythic origins in the hills of South China [...]
