A note 关于湖记

lakenote is a small buyer shop. It is not a marketplace, and it is not a community. The English name is the one used outward; 湖记 is the name in Chinese.

湖记是一家很小的买手店。不是平台，也不是社区。对外用英文名 lakenote，中文叫湖记。

The person who picks is Dahu (大湖). He chooses in person, in Dali. The measure is his own: he has to have stood there and taken the piece up in his hands.

挑选的人是大湖。他在大理亲手看、亲手挑。尺度是他自己的：要亲自站在那里，把东西拿在手里。

The shop keeps no inventory. After an order is placed, the workshop ships the piece itself. That arrangement still has to be agreed with each workshop, face to face.

店里不压货。下单之后，由工坊直接寄出。这件事还要和每家工坊当面谈定。

The first collection is being prepared around two origins: Bai plant-dyed textiles from Zhoucheng, and author-made zitao tea ware from Jianshui. Until those workshops have been visited and the pieces confirmed, there is nothing for sale — not here, and not elsewhere under this name.

第一批围着两处产地准备：周城的白族植物染，和建水的作者款紫陶茶器。工坊没有看过、东西没有定之前，不在这里卖，也不在别的地方以这个名字卖。

This site is the international face of the shop. Sales in China will later live in a WeChat miniprogram. That program is not public yet, and nothing can be bought there now.

本站是对外的面孔。以后在中国的销售，会放在微信小程序里。小程序尚未上线，现在也还不能在那里购买。