chinese wax-dying

making colored wax printing has two kinds of methods: one to draw colored pattern on calico first, stand up it " seal with wax ", dimple the colored pattern after contaminating ; another kind of method to float after drying only according to general method of wax printing, white place fill out the color. folk colored dyestuffs that wax printing spend, dye with red bayberry getting red by juice, yellow cape jasmine dye getting yellow.

pattern of the wax printing of guizhou, first, old line kind, such as related to bronze drum of guizhou mere line, sawtooth line, fig. line, melon rice line, cloud line, snow line, line line, pattern, petal line, bird line, fish line,etc; second, blend line kind that form by culture with the han nationality, for instance bat line , pomegranate line ,etc.; third, it is arrogant to fetch the natural beautiful scenery, for instance line kind , such as flowers and plants , trees , birds and beasts , water flea ,etc.. the color relies mainly on blue.

" ice split " line of wax printing, similar " turning on block " of porcelain glaze have a artistic result very much. size that split move towards, can master by people , can display target of describing just right, the characteristic is distinct. should dye the colored mouth of the polygenetic color level, can adopt the means of the sealing wax of colour separation , the expression is more abundant . the wax printing is used for producing arts clothes , hanging , tablecloth ,etc. more now. the miao nationality is good at the wax printing.