Guide Street, one of the historic districts in Taipei City, was beautifully famed for its tea merchants Lane. During the tea production seasons, the scents of gardenia flowers and tea leafs would fill the streets with its captivating aroma.
The street’s beautiful sights of family members of the tea merchants would gather together, sitting on stools and began picking dried tea leafs from the production baskets, in time for tea production season.
This was a collaboration with Guide Street's tea market fair in Taiwan. I designed a collection of prints inspired from the street's tea industry history, merging Paochong Tea leafs with gardenia flowers as the key visual story.
Screen printing the patterns onto second-handed cotton canvases provided by the local textile vendor at Guide Street, Taipei city. By breathing new life into the used fabrics, I wanted to treasure the resources yet building the collaboration on the basis of reusable materials and environmentally-friendly ink.