Historical Inheritance and Process Classification of Tie-dyeing

Tie-dyeing has a long history and originated in the Yellow River Basin. Classification includes Zigong tie-dyeing, Dali tie-dyeing and white tie-dyeing.

1, Zigong tie-dyed.

Tie-dyeing-first generation name dyeing. The first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects. Zigong tie-dyeing originated in Qing dynasty, including "tie-dyeing, discharge dyeing and anti-dyeing". It is the traditional arts and crafts of Zigong, and is famous at home and abroad for its beauty, freshness, simplicity and people's characteristics.

On the basis of excavating and sorting out the national artistic heritage, Zhang Yuzhong, a master of tie-dyeing technology, absorbed the techniques of traditional Chinese painting, decorative painting, oil painting and modern painting school, and formed a simple, elegant, rugged, dynamic and static, delicate and comfortable, abstract and figurative Zigong tie-dyeing feature. Zigong tie-dyed products, in addition to bed sheets, curtains, tablecloths, bags and other daily necessities, also produce a large number of fabrics with different colors and novel patterns and decorative wall hangings.

2, Dali tie-dye.

Dali national tie-dyeing adopts folk patterns, and through further rendering and artistic processing of traditional tie-dyeing technology, it becomes an artistic, abstract and practical handicraft. Its process is hand-sewn, and it is made by repeated dyeing with plant dyes. The product not only has bright color and never fades, but also has anti-inflammatory and health-care effects on the skin, overcoming the harmful side effects of modern chemical dyes on human health.

3. Bai people tie-dye.

Tie-dyed cloth is a unique craft product of Bai nationality, which can be seen everywhere in Dali urban and rural areas. Tie-dyeing not only represents a tradition, but also has become a fashion. Tie-dyeing is so popular because it is different from other dyed fabrics. It is simple and natural, with blue background and white flowers, elegant, unobtrusive, in line with people's feelings, close to people's lives, full of humanity, and is synthesized by people's hard-working, simple, pure, simple, kind and optimistic, cheerful, hospitable and other beautiful characters and interests.