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Batik:Wax Printing
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- Sep 22, 2009;
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Wax printing is an ancient and distinguishing manual printing art popular among the minorities. Wax printing is the integration of encaustic and dye. Wax printing, wring printing, bandhnu are called the three printing techniques of ancient China.
Zhuang Ethnic Minority Wax Printing
Wax printing of the Chuang is mainly in the pattern of white flowers blooming on the blue cloth, which is elegant and in good taste. The craftsmanship is not so difficult, but requires of high techniques. The raw materials used are mainly some local special products, such as the beeswax, white cloth, konjak, straw ash and indigo and so on. The procedures of producing the wax printing are firstly bleach the white cloth using the straw ash; secondly, paste the back of the white cloth; thirdly, rubdown the white cloth on the board after it is dry; fourthly, cut down the needed cloth according to certain size; finally, paint colorful pictures freely on the surface of the cloth using the wax spatula dipped with wax (the wax should first melt in the container using charcoal). After being painted, the waxed cloth will be put into the indigo and dipped for several times and then put into the boiling water in order to remove the beeswax. And a wax printing textile will be finally worked out after the cloth is dry.
Miao Ethnic Minority Wax Printing
The traditional way to make wax printing textiles of the Miao nationality is to paint various pictures on pieces of white cloth of different sizes using the specific wax spatula dipping the melted beeswax, dye the painted white cloth in the dye vet, then remove the beeswax from the dyed cloth in boiling water, rinse the cloth in clean water and dry it in the sun. After all these procedures, the wax printing cloth will be finally finished.
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