Ms Maggie, our local "Bai" guide upon discovering our interest in local crafts, directed our driver, Mr Yang, to make a stop at a local workshop where tie-and-dye fabrics were made. It was a very good visit and we witnessed how the fabrics were made - right from its design stage, through the 'tie' processes, waxing, dyeing using natural dyes and lastly a visit to the showroom where the materials have been used to make into lovely tablecloths, bedspreads, dresses, shirts etc etc.
completed 'tie-and-dye' fabrics being dried in the sun...
the plant from which some of the natural dyes are derived...
traditional motifs are traced on to the plain cloth...
these young village girls tied little 'knots' around the designs...
the knotted and 'tied-up' piece before being soaked in a dye...
our guide demonstrating how to make a 'tie'...
the piece of completed knotted and tied cloth being soaked in a blue natural dye....
the lady who owned the workshop with her productsshe received a lot of orders from foreigners especially Japanese...
some techniques are similar as to the Malaysian 'batik' -
after the sketch/design traced out the cloth is covered/painted with wax
on the areas that will not be coloured with the particular dye
after the first dye has been put on the process repeated for the next colour....
pakdokter's partner had visited a similar workshop doing the same in Nagoya, Japan
In Japan this technique is called the 'shibori'.....
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