Erjia town de local specialty

Blue calico is one of the traditional printing and dyeing processes in China. First seen in Han Dynasty, dimethyl blue calico entered its heyday in the middle of Ming Dynasty. Plate making, printing and dyeing are all manual operations, and indigo extracted from plants is used as the dye. Its technological method is to "pile up leather paper into a board, and carve patterns on it with its width as the degree." Every time it is printed, it is covered with a wooden board, brushed with drugs such as soybean powder, and then soaked in a blue vat. " Calico is blue and white. With the changes of the times, folk artists boldly absorb art patterns such as paper-cutting and embroidery, and the technology of dimethyl blue printed cloth is more perfect. Not long ago, the central government awarded the title of "the hometown of blue calico in China". From June 5438 to October 2002 10, the blue printed fabric produced by Tongzhou Erzhen Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. won the title of "Jiangsu Quality Product" in the quality appraisal of Jiangsu Province, and won the honorary certificates of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade. In particular, the dyeing process of "Xiaoqing vat" in Jill Town has been reported and published by CCTV and domestic and foreign newspapers and periodicals for many times. In 2007, Erzhen blue printed cloth was recognized as intangible cultural heritage by the state.