Truly Handmade

Lemongrass - Irreversibel

Thanks to Olivia Morko, Julia Kories & Alissa Verj from Design Akademie Berlin

3:20mins at ManuTeeFaktur

Thanks to Christian Schidlowski & André Götzmann
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Drink Global - Invest Local

CREDIT NOTE / GUTSCHEIN / GIFT COUPON / VERZEHRSCHEIN   Buy tea and invest in new products or even into the very first tea imported by...
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Kitchen Kimono / Keikogi

Keikogi (稽古着 or 稽古衣?) or dōgi (道着) is a uniform for training, used in martial arts derived from Japan, or budō. (keiko means practice, gi means dress or clothes). The prototype for the...
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up and down

not just drinking tea, but also brewing it keeps you fit ;-) Its a nice ritual to get all teas, spices, fruits together before the...
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the label

For the label a friend of mine - the creative mind behind http://www.LambsAndLions.com/ - helped me out and did a great job. I...
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*truly handmade*

Preparing tea is not a job - its a ritual. For me HANDMADE does not mean to push a button with your fingers or...
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Inside the Manufacture

No comment - the pictures speak for itself.
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alchemistic manufacture

Foto: Ira Hadžić http://www.WanderAtLarge.com/
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bottling - filling

All 'additions' in the bottle are totally fresh or fresh boiled ingredients - hand selected! By the way these 'additions' are not just a...
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handstamped paper cups

Foto: Ira Hadžić http://www.WanderAtLarge.com/
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oak stands for the cards

the stand-ups for the post cards are ready. All made out of oak - but all material are leftovers still waiting in Mikes workshop just...
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Milk bottle

Milk bottles are bottles used for milk. They may be reusable glass bottles used mainly for doorstep delivery of fresh milk by milkmen. Customers...
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preparations of the preparations

Foto: Ira Hadžić http://www.WanderAtLarge.com/
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Samowar

To bring the hot tea to cafés and restaurants I've found these nice Samowars. Of cause with the same labels like on the bottles...
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wander at large

Last summer manufacture was still an office - to keep all conditions needed for an 'official kitchen' producing food I had to separate the...
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opening hours

You can always come over to the ManuTeeFaktur and buy fresh tea - except we are just producing or sold out.
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Name & Story

Helmut Stummer, an old friend of mine and excellent copywriter helped me out by smoothing the story a bit. I've asked him if he...
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my favorite tool

A Chinese chef's knife or Chinese kitchen knife — sometimes referred to as a "Chinese cleaver" though it is not a cleaver — is the rectangular-bladed, all-purpose knife...
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labeled by hand

the labels on the bottles and cartons are rolled, glued,... by hand - like all working steps so long!