What are the characteristics of printing and dyeing in various regions of the Song Dynasty?

Song Dynasty due to the development of engraving and printing, printing and dyeing process has been higher development. Tang dynasty with hollow paper plate printed "large cluster of folded branches of two-color printing Luo process, to the Song dynasty called" medicine spot cloth ", its version of the mold is more fine, pulp mixing technology has also improved, the Song dynasty" medicine spot cloth "often The "medicine spot cloth" in Song Dynasty was often "green and white text", which was the predecessor of the later blue printed cloth. Jiading County Records" records printed cloth "out of Anting, Song Jiatai, women began for the family, to gray medicine cloth dyed green, and then dry wipe away, green and white into the text, there are landscapes, buildings, figures, flowers, fruits, birds and beasts of the elephant. Shanxi unearthed in the Southern Song Dynasty printing Luo, small scattered dots flower pattern, powder printing, the same as above is the same technique. Due to the popularity of the masses, this printing and dyeing process in the Song dynasty is very common, Song Tang Zhongyou in Jiangxi wuzhou opened color silk store, on the printing of this "medicine spot cloth".

Guangxi Yao also produces a fine batik, is a combination of the traditional Tang Dynasty clamp val and wax val. "The method of two pieces of wooden board, stranded into fine flowers, used to clip the cloth, and dissolve the wax canister in the skeleton, and then was released to take the board of cloth, thrown into the blue, the cloth is subject to the blue, it is boiled to go to the wax, so it can become a very fine spot cloth, Bing Ran can be seen".