In the Dali Painting of song Dynasty, among the civil servants and military commanders who followed the king to worship the Buddha, two warriors wore cloth crowns, which were very similar to the traditional blue ground with small groups of white flowers tie-dye. It may be an intuitive record of Dali tie-dye used for clothing nearly a thousand years ago.
With the continuous development of Nanzhao and Dali till now, tie-dye has become a hand printing and dyeing art with bai customs.
The use of tie-dye technique makes cashmere sweaters rich in variety, both simple and vigorous primitive type, and the modern beauty of changing flow, with the beauty of Chinese painting ink lasting appeal and the mysterious hazy beauty.
Tie-dye clothing is both traditional and modern clothing art creation based on national culture.
Clip dyeing, catch dyeing, string dyeing and overlapping dyeing appear various grain effects.
In ancient times, dyes were usually vegetable dyes, also known as vegetation dyes.
Common dyes are safflower, purple clover, indigo and so on.
The tie-dye techniques at that time included rice dyeing, face dyeing, bean dyeing and so on.
Use bean noodles, lime to adjust prevent to dye oar, besmear on cloth through beautiful board, boil next dye, can appear the effect of orchid bottom white flower.