[Allen] Modern yixing is generally at 1% or less absorbtive rate and current particle size is around 0.15 m/m as compared with 0.3 m/m at Mid Qing and 0.5 m/m...
Years ago there used to be a teapot shop in Melbourne that sold Yixing tea pots that were directly sourced by the seller from China herself. She had some...
... [Guang] The seller is right. Several kinds of blue-green-gray clays were popular in Qing dynasty but many of them are now extinct or scarce, for example...
Hi I just bought a organic green pu'er beeng and it has a spot about half dollar size of yellow mold. I have heard in the past that this yellow mold is a good...
Hi Guang thanks for the information ... Is this a blue clay tea pot with white spots? Just wondering, based on the description. Its a real shame I've never...
Hi Kathy, I won't add too much more to Guang has said since he's covered all the bases as a master should. I will say with "colored" teapots that you should...
I got my answer on this offline. Thanks. Blake Ross <dblakeross@...> wrote: Hi I just bought a organic green pu'er beeng and it has a spot about half...
... [Guang] There are at least two kinds of "white spots" you can see on yixings: (1) nature sands : from creamy-white color to more yellow. You will recognise...
Greetings, I was invited to join this wonderful new group and am delighted to be here with you all. I think this will be a fun and interesting journey. My name...
... [Guang] I was just offering some little info that are available in published prints (books, magazines). More a book worm than anything ; ) ... [Guang] Yes...
Yellow mold is considered to be good and tasty. Usually it won't spread after the first few months the tea was compressed. Chinese Pu-erh sellers often point...
Hi Guang, [Guang Wrote:] Be careful with books. I've found many instances that the author/publisher tries to use his/her own book to promote some products or...
[Guang] Yes normally the Tianqings are more gray than blue. As for the Snowflake Tianqing I mentioned, the blueness would show up more when the teapot is wet....
... [Guang] Sure, you bet I have! Those were my "tuitions" during my learning on yixings. I still have ~20 of them in Taiwan. Most were bought with my little...
Hi Guang, [Guang wrote:] He told me Europe has a lot more geuine Asian anqitues than faked ones. Used to be. So he grew up with the chance of seeing genuine ...
... Hi Bob I got some conflicting offline answers so I can't be definitive. One person reminded me that Scott from Yunnan Sourcing had posted here about 1000...
Hi Stephane, Yes that's the one and I am familiar with Hsin Sheng south and Pa De Road too. Thanks for much my gray matter is getting too old to remember such...
Hi Scott I have been "lurking" on this topic just to see what conflicting theories might come out here. May I ask some questions? ... [Guang] You mean the...
... [Guang] Once I chatted with him, he told me several antique dealers made huge fortunes by "importing high-end faked antiques" from China to London, Paris,...
... Not sure how to respond to this question, you can't really have one without the other. My understanding it is "tasty" together. ... White mold and and...
Sorry, I only just returned yesterday from a business trip to Bangkok, there are so many email to read! Interesting topics too! I don't care much for yixing...
[Scott] Aside, I would like to mention I am simply "transmitting" what a number of what I consider credible Pu-erh tea drinkers and sellers have told me over ...
... number of ... me over ... in the ... [Guang] Agree, we should be very careful of what information to transmit. Many chin-shan-lu-shui people after reading...
Hi Kevin Can you find another name for the fungus? Aspergillus cristatus seems to be a name unique to Asian websites and I don't see it showing up on Western...
The most likely candidates are Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Aspergillus niger A.niger is often found as a contaminant in packaged black teas....
Hi Guang, [Guang wrote:] Cheap dyed clays are very easy to tell. More carefully "dyed" clays are not difficult to tell as well, if we are equiped with a good ...
I agree it is difficult to find info on the fungus, even the chinese websites speak little of it. Another option, pop in to a bookstore or library... ...
I thought you would all enjoy this. My 22-month old will NOT drink plain water. He refuses it. I knew he liked the taste of tea, so I made a pot of Ti Kwan...
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