From a Kunming workshop to your tea kit
Sandry Law spends his days between tea mountains and city workshops, always on the lookout for gear that serves the working sommelier. On a sourcing run through Kunming’s old streets, he saw tea-sellers carrying their trays in rough cloth bundles — protective, but hardly practical. He approached a third-generation canvas maker with a proposition: design a dedicated carry case for the standard 30×42cm tray. Together they built the pattern: a padded body to absorb knocks, internal pockets sized for a bamboo brush and a gaiwan set, and a brass YKK zipper that wouldn’t snag on loose tea leaves. Early prototypes were handed to tea-house staff across Yunnan; their feedback led to reinforced handles and a light wax finish that resists daily wear. Each case is still cut and sewn in that same Kunming alley, in small batches with strict quality checks by Sandry’s team. The result is a quiet, hard-working piece — no branding, just dense canvas and brass — that carries your tray from home to gongfu session and back again.