What is tie-dyed cloth

Development History

Tie-dye, anciently known as miscellaneous flower cloth, also known as twisted dyeing, is an ancient folk hand-dyed dyeing process. It originated in the Central Plains area more than 1,000 years ago and is now mainly preserved in Zhoucheng and Dangshan County, Dacang, Temple Street, etc. in Dali City. Made in the ground. Zhoucheng Town, located at the edge of Butterfly Spring, is a large settlement of Bai people. There are more than 1,500 households and more than 8,000 people. The Bai women in the village are especially good at tie-dyeing and rusting, and almost every family has dyed tanks and households. Tie-dyeing, has the reputation of the town of tie-dye.

Features

Tie-dye uses folk patterns to further render and artize the traditional tie-dyeing process, making it a handicraft that combines art, abstraction and practicality. The process is made by hand stitching and repeated dyeing with vegetable dyes. The product is not only bright and never fades, but also has anti-inflammatory and health effects on the skin, and overcomes the side effects of modern chemical dyes harmful to human health. The Dali Bai people's tie-dye is made of pure cotton cloth, silk cotton, hemp yarn, gold velvet, corduroy, etc. At present, in addition to retaining the traditional soil-dyed blue-white variety, a new color-dyed dyed variety has been developed. Products include color cloth, tablecloths, curtains, clothing, ethnic bags, hats, hand towels, scarves, pillows, sheets and other hundreds of varieties.

Craftsmanship

Tie-dyeing is also known as twisting. Before dyeing the Fabric, tie the thread at different parts according to the design requirements, and then loosen the tie, which gives a natural halo pattern. The tie-dye cloth and the batik cloth are all just a blue and white variety. Now it has grown to a variety of colors, and fabrics have evolved from single cotton to silk, synthetic and blended fabrics. Tie-dye tools have also evolved from simple tethers to specialized tools. The current tie-dye fabrics have evolved from the clothing of rural women to fashion fabrics.

It takes three steps to make tie dyeing: pre-dyeing, bundling and dyeing.

Pretreatment

In order to ensure uniform dyeing during the tie-dye production process, the fabric needs to be pre-dyed. Because the fabric often contains slurry, additives and certain impurities of natural impurities. Pre-dyeing treatments are:

Desizing: The purpose is to remove the slurry, and use a lye, an oxidizing agent or an amylase to add water to boil the cloth to desizing.

Dosage: The agent is 3% of the cloth weight, and the water is about 30 times the weight of the cloth.

Refining: The purpose is to remove the natural impurities and residual slurry on the fiber, and boil it with caustic soda and water. Dosage: caustic soda is 3% of the weight of the cloth, and water is about 30 times the weight of the cloth.

Bleaching: used to remove pigments and residual impurities. It is usually boiled with sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide. Dosage: The bleaching agent is 3% of the cloth weight, and the water is about 30 times the weight of the cloth. In addition, the pre-dye treatment of silk is refined with soap and sodium carbonate plus water.

Ironing and standby: Ironing the rinsed cloth with an electric iron for patterning and bundling.

Strapping dyeing

The designed pattern pattern is marked on the cloth with a drawing powder or drawn with a drawing liquid, and then the cloth is bundled or sewn. After completion, immerse in water and let it dry. Remove it and let it dry. After it has not dripped, put it into the prepared dye solution or dip or cook for a certain time, then rinse it with water and dry it.

Post-dye treatment

After the drying, the bundle can be untied and untied, and the iron is slicked and ironed and finished.

Editor in charge: Zhu Ling