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Once there were only burned fingers and dangerous drinks: too hot, too untouchable to raise your fingers at theirs. Nowadays there are save people that walk around without worrying about that.
Now coffee cup sleeves are housed in the same building as Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” since they can be found at MoMA (New York’s Museum of Modern Art). It’s not an out of place object and it’s not worth considering such a choice like a mistake or worse like an inadmissible slight for those who admire art. Coffee cup sleeves are humble masterpieces, with a modest price, indispensable and necessary. A real masterpiece of design!
Coffee cup jacket: a common name for a unique idea
Why didn’t I think of it before? Because we are not Jay Sorensen, the man who invented the Java Jacket in 1991 as a solution to a common problem: hot drinks burn fingers. He was driving with his car, holding a too hot cup of coffee without a jacket and it dropped into his lap as the worst comedy movie. Without threatening his cup of coffee, he started thinking of a solution for such a problem.
First of all he designed an insulated cup that could replace the common paper cups, but he suddenly realized that:
1) It’s really difficult to storage and package that kind of cup.
2) Such an insulation didn’t worth for all drinks: cold drinks don’t need insulation.
Sorensen doesn’t remember the fatal day of his inspiration, but he was a real change and he still remembers when he went to a trade show in Seattle and he sold 100 cases of coffee cup sleeves Java Jacket in just 30 minutes.
What is zarf? A brief history of an ancient coffee cup sleeve
Different time, different cultures and the same problems. Business men and business women, college students and everyone who likes hot coffee knows how dangerous it is to drink it without the right protection.
In Turkey at around the thirteenth century, people thought the same thing; that’s why they invented zarfs. They could be considered as forerunners of modern custom coffee sleeves and they were made with different material and decorated with chasing, niello or set with precious gems. Ancient coffee cup sleeves like zarfs were useful holders without handles to keep hot drinks away from ancient fingers without giving up style and beauty.
The best way to protect you from a hot cup
A coffee sleeve no matter how you call it it’s the best way to protect your fingers from hot and treacherous drinks.
There are so many that it is quite difficult to choose the right one and choice doesn’t depend only on how it is effective against heat. Coffee cup sleeves are often made with no reusable materials that’s why a leather cup holder could be the best deal for your fingers. A customizable, reusable and stylish accessory to wake your morning up. Handmade and manufactured by Italian artisans, a leather coffee cup sleeve can be a pretty gift as well as a useful friend during your everyday life.
Crazy ideas to customize a coffee cup sleeve
If you like knitting you could think about a wool coffee cup holder for your cold mornings. A soft and warm touch that could lighten a hard awakening.
You could also use reusable material to create your own cup sleeve such as old tyre, Tetra pack packagings and other goods that you can easily find at home. There are may online stores where you can buy coffee cup sleeves or where you can get ideas to satisfy your creativity by customizing your coffee cup sleeve.
A good morning also depends on little details a pretty and stylish coffee cup sleeve could be the right input to start your day.
