Accidental Cuppa Design: The Silk Sample Sacks that Turned into Tea Bags

Bags are to tea as filters are to coffee, each classic consumer staples integrated into our basic conception of these hot drinks. But tea bags were no genius creation designed to revolutionize the market for this age-old product. In fact, the man credited with popularizing this “invention” didn’t even realize what he held in hand — until, that is, people started swamping him with orders for “tea bags.”
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