Tea of Grace #16 With a beautiful tray

"Tea", time with tea - including thinking, imagining, preparing, serving, drinking or cleaning up, and even when you don't see it as relating to tea

is like a ritual, prayer, reflection of myself, a way of communication, holding hands, respect for mother nature and craftmen's (worker's) hands, enjoying the change of the seasons, gratitude for everything, a gesture of love, grace ... 

Even though there are both good and bad, happiness and sadness, ease and pain ... I always wish every person is blessed with beautiful moments, warmness, peace and love.

Small things with Great love. 

◆Russian handicrafts: Zhostovo painting◆

This tray is made in a village Zhostovo, Russia. 

Zhostovo painting (Жостовская роспись in Russian) is an old Russian folk handicraft of painting on metal trays, which still exists in a village of Zhostovo in the Moscow Oblast. It appeared in the early 19th century mainly under the influence of the Ural handicraft of flower painting on metal. Subsequent development of the Zhostovo painting handicraft was stylistically related to porcelain and enamel painting techniques, used by factories near Moscow, flower motifs on printed cotton, produced by the Ivanovo factories, and Lukutin miniature (see Fedoskino miniature).