Handcraft skills Chinese traditional folk skills -- tie-dye
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tie-dye called valerian, the pattern-dye, printing and dyeing, is China's traditional folk and unique dyeing process. The fabric in dyeing is the partial ligation, make it can't be tinted. Prick of qin and han dynasties, there have been many one thousand - year history. The ancient the unique dyeing, has been in their own unique beauty and wonderful appearance, entrenched growth among the people."
Handcraft skills Chinese traditional folk skills -- tie-dye
Tie-dye called valerian, the pattern-dye, printing and dyeing, is China's traditional folk and unique dyeing process. The fabric in dyeing is the partial ligation, make it can't be tinted. Prick of qin and han dynasties, there have been many one thousand - year history. The ancient the unique dyeing, has been in their own unique beauty and wonderful appearance, entrenched growth among the people."
Tie-dye reached its heyday in the Tang Dynasty, and it became fashionable for the aristocracy to wear twisted clothing.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, tie-dye was forbidden by the imperial court due to its complexity and labor cost, which led to its decline and even its disappearance.But ethnic minorities in the southwest retain this ancient skill.
In addition to China, tie-dye craft is also available in India, Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries.
In the 1970s, tie-dye became a popular handicraft and was widely used in clothing, ties, wall hangings and so on.
In the Dali Painting of song Dynasty, among the civil servants and military commanders who followed the king to worship the Buddha, two warriors wore cloth crowns, which were very similar to the traditional blue ground with small groups of white flowers tie-dye. It may be an intuitive record of Dali tie-dye used for clothing nearly a thousand years ago.
With the continuous development of Nanzhao and Dali till now, tie-dye has become a hand printing and dyeing art with bai customs.
The use of tie-dye technique makes cashmere sweaters rich in variety, both simple and vigorous primitive type, and the modern beauty of changing flow, with the beauty of Chinese painting ink lasting appeal and the mysterious hazy beauty.
Tie-dye clothing is both traditional and modern clothing art creation based on national culture.
Clip dyeing, catch dyeing, string dyeing and overlapping dyeing appear various grain effects.
In ancient times, dyes were usually vegetable dyes, also known as vegetation dyes.
Common dyes are safflower, purple clover, indigo and so on.
The tie-dye techniques at that time included rice dyeing, face dyeing, bean dyeing and so on.
Use bean noodles, lime to adjust prevent to dye oar, besmear on cloth through beautiful board, boil next dye, can appear the effect of orchid bottom white flower.
A printing process in which cashmere sweater pieces are bound in various ways with thread or string, according to the effect of a design pattern, and placed in a dye solution so that the dye does not penetrate into the binding area to form a natural special pattern.
The garment can also be directly tie-dyed in two ways: stringing and pinching.
The former pattern is like dewdrop dot, gentle and elegant, the latter pattern color contrast is intense, lively and fresh.
Generally can be used to do more lsweater, scarves and so on.
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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the dyeing and weaving skills of the Bai nationality in Erhai reached a very high level, and the dyeing and weaving party came into being. Erhai Red cloth in the Ming Dynasty, Xizhou cloth in the Qing Dynasty and Dali cloth were all famous and popular products for a while.
By the Period of the Republic of China, home tie-dye had become very common, and towns such as Zhoucheng and Xizhou, known for their dense cluster of family-based tie-dye workshops, had become the center of tie-dye spreading all over the world.