What are the tie-dye patterns?

1. Tie-dyeing usually takes cotton white cloth or cotton-linen blended white cloth as raw materials, and the main dyes come from the indigo solution of natural plants such as Sparganium, Isatis indigotica and Artemisia argyi, especially Isatis indigotica. Banlangen, which is used to dye cloth, is a perennial herb with small pink flowers.

2. People who dye cloth will plant it on the mountain by themselves. Okay, it can grow to half a person's height. They will be harvested in March and April every year, first soaked in water, injected into a large wooden dye vat, and then mixed with some lime or industrial alkali. It can be used to dye cloth.

3. The tie-dyeing method is unique. Old books vividly describe the process of making tie-dye in ancient times: "Pick the thread and tie it, then dye it."

Extended data:

According to the requirements of the pattern, the cloth is crumpled, folded, rolled and extruded to form a certain shape, and then sewn or tied with needle and thread, tied and sewn tightly, so that the cloth becomes a string of "bumps".

The cloth used for tie-dyeing is coarse white cotton homespun woven by Bai people themselves. Now there are few homespun, mainly raw white cloth and packaging cloth woven by industrial machines, with soft texture. First, folk art designers draw various patterns according to folk traditions and market demands, plus their own creations. Printers use perforated wax paper to print the designed patterns on raw white cloth, and then women hold the cloth, sew it by hand, and then send it to tie-dyeing factories or various dyeing houses.