Unique Chinese Batik Art

As an age-old art, batik has its own mystery. Unlike oil painting, in which a sense of achievement can be got through the paint accumulated line by line, and also one can adjust their works at any moment. Unlike Chinese traditional painting as well, in which you can see clearly that ink soaking in Xuan paper. Batik may just like a child unborn, whom you can think of and imagine about, but you cannot know exactly what it really looks like before it comes out.     

Enjoyed a good fame “the number one oriental batik”, it is the most aged traditional handicraft in China. As far as the Qing and Han Dynasty about 2000 years ago, the technique of batik (it was called “laxie” at that time) had appeared in China, and it first drew patterns on cloth, then dyed, and the patterns would be fixed after wax was removed. When it came to the Tang Dynasty, batik had been a very popular fabric for decoration, and the batik commodities have exported as far as to the Europe and other Asia nations. After that, manual operation was gradually substituted by new industry along the further economic development in Central China, so batik technique was lost one after one in many places. However, this precious handicraft art had been handed down orally in Guichou located in remote mountain areas. There were mainly two reasons, the first one was its inconvenient traffic and slow communication with the outside world, and the second its rich natural resources for batik.  Batik articles, unsophisticated and bold, have always been decorations to dress and houses for those people of minority ethnic groups in Guichou Plateau.