Why don't you buy disposable tea bags? No more hassle than with regular tea bags, and you can load up - or mix - how much loose leaf tea you want. Purists who claim the bags impart taste are imagining things.
Teapots
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Which I sometimes do. But this a thread about the appreciation of applied art 
Being a semi obsessed fan of old martial arts movies, i love the old old old school tea cups that you just put the leaves and hot water in the cup and use the lit to sweep back any floating leaves while you sip, then place the lid back on to keep it warm until you sip again and you repeat the process.
That's the pot I had in mind as you described your criteria. I think we had one in every AirBnB we rented in Ireland and also in a few cafes. Forlife brand, IIRC.
These are designed to use very large tea leaves and multiple very short brews from the leaves. Most loose leaf British teas are too small for convenient use. These are also only about 6oz in capacity and intended for brewing tiny.servings.of 1.5 to 3 oz.
Yah i actually looked that up because it seemed crazy they would use the typical tea we are used to, I made friends with the couple that own a local chinese restaurant, one of the nice ones, anyway i used to give her husband cigars (Partagas shorts) all the time, he loved them but i told them about my tea obsession from those movies and they gave me a pound of chinese tea made for that, i still haven't opened the package because i never bought the cups, but i understand it's very good tea.
A funny tea story, when i moved to Boston as a teen i first worked at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, it's a top notch hotel (at least it was) right off Harvard Square, a lot of celebrities stayed there and working in room service i met every one from Jack Nicholson to Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant to Lucy and everyone between. Anyway when Sting was doing his Dream of the Blue Turtles tour he stayed there, I brought up his breakfast one morning and tea was the beverage.
That night i had tickets (well my brother bought them for us) to see him at the Garden, great show, then he pulls out a tea bag and starts going off on how we dumped tea in the harbor and of course knew nothing about tea, complained about the tea he got with breakfast all while swinging the tea bag around. Yah the tea I brought him .. then he broke into Englishman in NY but changed it to in Boston for the show. I got a kick out of it!
Back when I still drank tea I purchased a small but lovely antique brown-and-cream-colored Sadler (Burslem, England) teapot, which I still have. It was the ideal size for two cups.
I had a Forlife one. But I lost the filter. Without the filter I was left with a tiny little spout which blocked all the time when I would pour.
Burslem/Stoke on Trent is famous for its bottle kilns where literally millions of teapots, plates, cups etc etc were made over the centuries mainly due to the red clay that is found in the vicinity in massive quantities.
Burslem/Stoke on Trent is for pottery like Sheffield is for steel and cutlery, both places were at the very centre of the industrial revolution and their products are to be found all over the world.
Jay.
I've always used Yixing clay pots, filtered water, never wash the interior except by flushing with hot water.
Your pick of the one-cup teapot is almost identical to what I use most mornings. I got into a bit of tea blending several years back with flavored blacks mostly. My teapot collection is decent, yet like my french press for coffee, I always come back to this little mechanical one-cup teapot every morning. I like the fine metal strainer it comes with for the cut teas...preferring a robust malty caffeinated base for the half n half and sugar.
Yes. Been called a teapot for being somewhat of an anglophile, but never had a proper teapot. That is if you don't count the Chinese restaurant metal types. Those I have about twenty of 'em. My father in law used to own a Chinese restaurant. He even cooks Chinese. After about ten years of providing visa to Chinese chefs, he got tired of catering to their moods. So spent two years learning over their shoulder and kicked 'em out. And few more years of slinging those giant woks, his back gave out.
This is the utilitarian teapot I use in the office. Good spout that does not drip. And a metal basket so emptying tea leaves is a breeze.
I have a few “artisanal” pots - look great but spouts don’t work as they should. They stay in the cupboard
Long Jing (Dragon Well green tea) with a pinch of Jin Jun Mei (Golden Eyebrow black tea)
The Long Jing on its own is “too green”. The pinch of Jin Jun Mei ameliorates the “greenness” and gives it a greater depth of flavour
I have a few “artisanal” pots - look great but spouts don’t work as they should. They stay in the cupboard
Long Jing (Dragon Well green tea) with a pinch of Jin Jun Mei (Golden Eyebrow black tea)
The Long Jing on its own is “too green”. The pinch of Jin Jun Mei ameliorates the “greenness” and gives it a greater depth of flavour
