Printed on the mountain, worn off it
This tee carries the same trip that filled Sandry Law’s sample bags with Yā Shǐ Xiāng (鸭屎香) last October. Sandry, our Head of Procurement for China, walked the old stone paths above Pingkeng Village with Master Lin Bao, a fifth-generation dancong maker who still refuses mechanical rollers, tasting through twenty-three lots of the season’s autumn flush. Back in Kunming, Sandry handed the workshop’s screen-printer a page from his field notebook — a rough sketch of the twelve main cultivar plots around Wudong, the same map that later became a numbered atlas poster. The printer redrew it clean, then set it in a single tonal green just a shade darker than the garment dye, so the map only reveals itself in raking light. Eighty tees were cut from a pre-washed 180gsm organic cotton, boxy through the body so it layers over a base layer on a cold tasting-room morning. No care label inside, just a small woven tab at the side seam with the edition number. Wear it on the mountain path or under a jacket at your own tea table — either way, it’s the same walk Sandry took that October.