A wooden tray designed to encase a gridiron support, which in turn holds tea leaves heated in the furnace.
A kuo, used in making tea, is placed in a stove about nine inches below the stove's mouth.
Five pounds of tea leaves are taken out of the steam bath and put in a stone furnace.
The tea leaves are taken to long, low tables where the stems and uncurled leaves are separated and discarded.
The tea leaves are steamed until they reach a desirable fragrance. They are then rolled or kneaded by…
A kuo basket is placed above a furnace to be hand-stirred by a worker in order to regulate the leaf…
A winnowing machine was traditionally used to separate yield from chaff. The pictured type of winnowing…
Tea leaves are passed through sieves then winnowed via tossing on large bamboo trays.