Taste Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage: Putian Qingdai Printing and Dyeing Techniques

The indigo dyeing and printing technique performance is a municipal intangible cultural heritage in Putian City. Indigo is a dry pigment extracted from Malan branches and leaves after soaking in lime water. It is blue in color and has a powder as fine as indigo. It can be used as a dye for painters to color, as a fabric dye, and for medicinal purposes. The fabric used for indigo dyeing can be cotton, cotton, silk, etc. The fabrics are kneaded together, tied, and then immersed in the dye pool, then picked up to dry slightly; soaked again, picked up again, and repeated several times. Patterns of different shades are formed due to different times. Whether the fabric dyed with indigo is used to make clothes, scarves, fans, etc., it gives people the beauty of blue and white porcelain, sometimes like a graceful lady, sometimes like a naughty blue elf. The fabric printed and dyed by Indigo Naturalis is fresh and elegant, with the unique fragrance of Indigo Naturalis. </p