The Tang Dynasty was one of the most powerful countries in the world at that time, what are the printing and dyeing methods of the Tang Dynasty?

The Tang Dynasty was a period of great prosperity for China's feudal society, with economic prosperity, developed culture, openness of the world, and frequent foreign exchanges. As a result of the influence of foreign ethnic minorities, women in the Tang Dynasty were subject to fewer constraints. In this era of environment and social atmosphere, the Tang Dynasty women's clothing styles, colorful, elegant and gorgeous, printing and dyeing is more and more widely used in clothing.

Tang Dynasty women's clothing is divided into dresses, crowns, hats, shoes and several categories. Tang Dynasty printing and dyeing fabrics are extremely popular, very popular. At that time, women were popular to wear "green and blue val", foot on the "flat head small flower grass track". In the palace, it was widely popular in beautifully patterned printed and dyed silk clothing, "green and blue val dress" became the basic style of the Tang Dynasty fashion. During the Tang Dynasty, printing and dyeing technology was introduced to Japan and other countries. Japan will be China's printing and dyeing technology as a national treasure, so far in Japan's Tōdaiji Temple, still preserved in China's Tang Dynasty colorful printing and dyeing fabrics.

From the Tang Dynasty "Nanzhao Zhongxing national history scrolls" and the Song Dynasty "Dali State scrolls" in the characters of the clothing and costumes, as early as more than a thousand years ago, the Bai ancestors have mastered the dyeing and printing technology. Sheng Tang years, printing and dyeing in the Bai ethnic area has become a folk fashion, printing and dyeing products have become the tribute to the Imperial Palace. Tang Dezong Zhenyuan sixteen years (800), the Nanzhao dance team to Chang'an dedication, wearing dance clothes that are made of dyed fabrics.

The Tang Dynasty printing and dyeing is divided into clip val, wax val, stranded val and other printing and dyeing methods. Sandwich val is the most common dyeing process: two wooden plates, carved the same pattern pattern, sandwiched between the silk and dyeing. After printing and dyeing, unraveling the wooden plate, the pattern is relative, the left and right even, the effect is very good, very popular. Sandwich val process is more varied, there are direct printing, alkali agent printing, anti-dyeing printing. Sheng Tang period and the use of screen printing, also known as sieve Luo printing, with the current screen printing is no less than.

Methods and processes of batik production: the white cloth flat on a wooden board or tabletop spot wax flowers. The method of dotting wax is to put beeswax in a ceramic bowl or a metal canister and melt the wax with a charcoal fire or chaff fire in a fire bowl, then you can dip a copper knife into the wax to make a drawing. When the wax sheet is put into the dyeing tank for dyeing, some of the "wax seals" are damaged and cracked due to folding, and then natural cracks are produced, which are generally called "ice patterns". Sometimes it is also made according to the needs of the "ice pattern". This kind of "ice pattern" will often make the batik pattern more rich in layers, with a natural chic flavor. Tie-dyeing is to tie up the fabrics to be dyed and then put them into the dyeing tank to be dyed. Tie-dye is rich in color, natural and interesting. What is even more amazing is that even if there are thousands of flowers in each knot, there will not be the same ones after dyeing. This unique artistic effect is difficult to achieve mechanical printing and dyeing process.