Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets

The instruction sheet for a 1935 Romany Fortune Telling Cup by Wilkinson; tattered, tea-stained, ans torn, but still readable and carefully preserved by a loving former owner

From a single sheet or brief folded brochure to a full-sized paperback book, many fortune telling tea cups have been issued with accompanying instructions for performing the divination. Most 20th century tea leaf reading cups were marketed as sets consisting of a cup, saucer, and instruction booklet in a chipboard box. The instruction pamphlets and boxes, of course, often fell by the wayside, and even those booklets that did survive were often tea-stained, torn, or worn through at the folds.

Instruction sheets, pamphlets, and booklets that accompanied boxed cups and saucers are different than general books about tea leaf reading. They vary in length from one sheet of paper to a 96-page paperback, but although they may delve into the general history of tasseomancy, when it comes to interpretations, they deal only with the one cup and saucer set they were written to accompany.

In recent years a small, niche market has arisen in making facsimile reproductions of the instruction booklets for specific sets. This is particularly true of the instructions that accompanied symbol cups and saucers because the symbols included by the various makers were not the same, so a set of instructions for one cup might not apply to another.

This page is part of the Mystic Tea Room Bibliography series, covering instructional books and booklets.

* Bibliography of Books about Tasseomancy:

Hardbound and paperback instruction books on tea leaf reading.

* Bibliography of Booklets About Tasseomancy Issued by Tea Companies:

Instruction booklets on how to read tea leaves that promoted brands of tea.

* Bibliography of Booklets on Tasseomancy Issued by Pottery Companies:

Instruction booklets on how to read tea leaves that promoted brands of pottery.

* Tea Company Booklets:

Overview of booklets iabout growing, harvesting, and packing, and brewing tea.

* Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets:

Site-wide link-list of tea cups that were issued with Tasseomancy Instruction Sheets and Booklets.

Although this page is not a bibliography per se, it is a site-wide list of all of the tea cup and saucer sets known to me that were issued with Instruction Sheets or Booklets on Tasseomancy. An image of the booklet may not accompany each cup on its own page because the paper sheets and booklets are more fragile and disposable than the cups. For an illustrated listing of all instruction booklets and sheets known to me, see Pottery Company Booklets on Tea and Tasseomancy

See Also

• Instructions in Tasseomancy
• How To Read Tea Leaves
• A Basic List of Tea Leaf Symbols
• Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets
• Tea Company Booklets on Tea and Tasseomancy
• Pottery Company Booklets on Tea and Tasseomancy
• Bibliographies