What kind of handicrafts does turtle pattern appear in?

Batik, a traditional textile printing and dyeing handicraft in China, was called wax valerian in ancient times. It was also called the four major printing processes in ancient China together with twisted valerian (tie dyeing), grey valerian (hollow printing) and clip dyeing.

Batik cloth is made by coating wax, drawing, dyeing, dewaxing and washing. Because in the process of dyeing, the surface of wax white cloth will naturally crack, so that white gray cloth will be colored by infiltrated dyes, and many irregular color lines, thick or thin, also called turtle lines, will appear. These turtle patterns are the standard to distinguish true and false batik fabrics.

Because any "turtle pattern" designed by imitation batik cloth is regular, it is often difficult to find real batik cloth, and it is impossible to find exactly the same turtle pattern.

Batik is to draw flowers on the cloth with a wax knife dipped in melted wax, and then dipped in indigo. When the wax is removed, the surface of the cloth presents various patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background. At the same time, in the dip dyeing, the wax as a resist naturally cracks, which makes the cloth surface show a special "ice grain", which is particularly eye-catching.

Because batik is rich in patterns, elegant in color and unique in style, it is simple, elegant, fresh and pleasing to the eye when used to make clothes and various practical articles for life. From the perspective of raw materials, batik has no special requirements for fabrics, such as cotton, hemp, silk and wool.

Anti-dye materials are not limited to specific varieties, and animal and plant waxes can be used, generally resin and beeswax; Dyeing can only be done by cold dyeing process, generally plant dyeing, mainly indigo.

The Cultural Value of Batik

Under the current historical conditions, batik has changed from the original utilitarian content to an aesthetic form for appreciation. In the association and evaluation of this distant and mysterious blue and white symbol, people have re-recognized and enriched its content.

When people examine and evaluate this traditional culture and art from the perspective of modern civilization, it has actually detached itself, entered modern art life as an artistic element, and achieved a leap to a new cultural atmosphere and aesthetic realm.

Batik design is based on realism, and its artistic language is simple, naive, rough and powerful. In particular, its shape is not limited by the details of natural images, and it has undergone bold changes and exaggeration, which comes from naive imagination and contains infinite charm.

Patterns are very rich, including geometric figures and natural images, which generally come from life or beautiful legends and stories, and have a strong national color.