Garment Care
The Tending Rite
Free restoration for every TI YA RA TEMPLE piece.
For as long as it is worn.
Yangsheng Cha Dao teaches that the body is worth tending: the patient, ongoing act of returning something to itself.
Tending.
The same intelligence governs the cloth.
A garment that has been in the room during a tea ceremony carries something that a new garment does not. The linen that has been worn through three years of morning practice, the silk that was present at a woman's first moment of genuine stillness: these are not wearing out. They are deepening. They have acquired the one thing that cannot be manufactured: time and presence.
TI YA RA TEMPLE garments are designed to be tended. Repaired, restored, and returned. The cloth is the practice. What you tend is what endures.
This is the foundation of The Tending Rite.
What is worn in ceremony is worth returning to ceremony.
We tend what you love.
Restoration is always free
You cover the postage there and back
Unlimited: no cap on how many times a piece returns
Structural Restoration
- Seam and stitch repair
- Hem re-stitching
- Lining care and re-attachment
- Fastening and clasp replacement
- Elastic restoration
- Button replacement
- Small structural patching
- Fibre tending for areas of heavy use
Natural Dye Refreshing
TI YA RA exclusive
Natural fibres held in tropical light and heat age with beauty. Over years, the depth of a natural dye softens. The cloth remains. The colour shifts.
TI YA RA TEMPLE offers redyeing using the same natural processes and the same artisans used in original production: restoring a piece to the depth it carried when it first arrived.
This is renewal.
A piece returned for natural dye refreshing comes back restored, carrying its history. The colour carries its original depth.
Begin with the garments
Clothing designed to be tended.
The Tending Rite only means something if the garment is worth tending. Linen that has been worn in ceremony. TENCEL™ that has learned the shape of a particular body. Silk that carries the particular quality of a woman who has stopped rushing.
These are ritual objects, designed to accumulate history and be cared for across years. The tending is built in from the beginning.
Deepen with tea
The garment supports the practice.
The practice deepens the garment.
Yangsheng Cha Dao is the method that sits behind the garments. Not separate from them. When you sit in ceremony in linen that has learned your body, when you pour tea in silence while wearing something that does not compete with your attention, you understand why the two things belong to the same world.
The cloth and the cup. The tending of both. The same principle.
Begin the Rite
01 Complete the form with the piece you are returning and what needs tending.
02 We confirm eligibility and send the return address within 48 hours.
03 You send the piece. You cover shipping both ways.
04 We tend it. It returns within 14 to 21 days with a note on what was cared for.
Questions
Yes. The restoration is always free. You cover shipping both ways. We cover the artisan time, materials, and care.
All authentic TI YA RA TEMPLE pieces in wearable condition. We may ask for a photograph before confirming eligibility.
Once we receive your piece, restoration usually takes 14 to 21 days, plus return shipping time.
No limit. A piece can return as many times as it needs to, for as long as you own it.
A service unique to TI YA RA TEMPLE. Natural fibres fade over time, especially in tropical light. We redye the piece using the same natural processes and artisans as the original production, restoring its depth of colour. Not available for synthetic dye pieces.
The restoration returns function and depth. The cloth carries its history, and the history is part of its value.