Reasons to love felt…
It was love at first sight for me, because of its density and thickness and its vibrant colours, but a number of the reasons to love this beautiful, non-woven wool fabric are invisible. It's a renewable resource. Sheep continually grow their wonderful woolly coats...
Hot that pot, then on with the tea cosy…
Almost every tea culture does it -- warms the teapot (or teacup) with the boiling water before making the tea in it. Why? Because the room-temperature vessel will steal almost ten degrees Celsius from the hot water. This means if you don't pre-warm your teapot,...
Cozy hack, trivet test
Tea cozy hack and trivet test. Customers are such an inventive lot. And helpful. Fits a tall teapot too Recently a customer ordered one of the flock's cosies designed for a french press coffee maker, the 8-cup "Neu" design in Moss Green. Shortly after receiving it...
Rejuvenating your wool felt tea cosy
How to care for your wool felt tea cosy or tea cozy, and rejuvenating your european wool felt tea cosy.
Not everyone got the hang of tea…
Bill Bryson tea history trivia from his book “At Home” for the modern tea and tea cozy lover. Minimalist design which updates the much-loved tradition of tea cosies and makes them for the modern home.
Inspiring Modern Tea houses
Have you seen these? Perhaps it's the spring in my garden -- the sweet warm air, the fresh almost rubbery flowery buds, the crazily chirping birds -- but my mind has been turning to garden structures and what more appropriate for this flock than a modern tea house? A...
Why shop at FoTC?
I'm very proud of the craftsmanship and quality of the products I make to sell under the Flock of Tea Cosy banner, and it makes my day when a sale or a query comes over the transom, especially from some place faraway.CLEAN, MODERN DESIGN Some place like Finland, or...
The teapot in Sagittarius
It seems that if we're tea drinkers then Sagittarius, the Archer is our man. Or rather, our constellation. Eight of Sagittarius' brightest stars form a figure widely recognized by those who peer at the night sky as a teapot, with its handle to the left and its spout...