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In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

author:Straits Metropolis Daily

Haidu all-media reporter Chen Jiangyan Ma Junjie text/photo

Bailu festival, Fuzhou has a saying to eat longan. In the hands of Xu Dongfang, the non-hereditary inheritor of Fuzhou's handicraft skills, longan is still one of the tie-dye materials. The longan shell can be used as an "accessory" for color grading, dyeing the fabric with a longan-like color through the technique of grass and wood dyeing. On this day, the reporter followed Xu Dongfang to experience the mystery of longan tie-dye.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance
In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

On this day, Ms. Xu Dongfang used natural materials to tie-dye autumn golden

Fruit core peel branches

It's all tie-dye material

Xu Dongfang introduced that tie-dye, known as "stranding" in ancient times, is an ancient textile dyeing technique in China. Tie-dyeing is generally made of cotton and silk satin as raw materials, the cloth is rolled up in a specific way, knotted, and tied tightly, and then selects the favorite color to dye on the disposed cloth ball, and uses alum and other materials to fix the color, and after drying and air drying, a piece of dyed cloth is obtained.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

Xu Dongfang introduced that tie-dyeing is generally divided into dye preparation, drawing draft, zabu, dyeing cloth and drying cloth, among which the most test of creative ability is the painting process, the most test of hands-on ability is the zabu link, and the rest is to wait patiently.

"Tie-dye is an art with uncertainty." Xu Dongfang said that according to the fabric material, the way the cloth is processed, the dyeing method, etc., the final pattern effect may be very different, and it is difficult to predict in advance. Her most common dyeing method is grass and wood dyeing, also known as plant dyeing, which is a method of using natural plant dyes to color textiles.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

Tea stalks and longan shells can also be used as the main ingredient for dyeing, giving the cloth a autumn color

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

Coinciding with the white dew festival, after tasting the sweet flesh of the longan, Xu Dongfang used the core, peel and branch of the longan as a tie-dye material, leaving a sweet memory of the longan with cloth.

Use the longan core skillfully

Make wonderful pieces

Since the skin of the longan is difficult to extract the color, in order to obtain the dye that is closest to the color of the longan, it is necessary to use other materials in nature, such as onion skin, to dye grass and trees. Xu Dongfang put a large amount of onion peel in the pot, added water and boiled a pot of lemon yellow dye. If you want a dark shade, you can boil the leftover tea leaves with the longan shell.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

Wait for the dye to come out of the pot, you can first use a pencil on a white cloth to draw the desired pattern. When the cloth is zzled, the longan core can be wrapped in cloth and then fixed with a leather band; It is also possible to fold the longan branches and hide them in the cloth, and then sew them up with needles and threads; Or simply tie the local fabric tightly with a clip, etc. When you have finished tying the cloth with your imagination, you can put the tied cloth into the dye, then cook it for 15 minutes, and patiently wait for the yellow dye to gradually blend on the cloth.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance
In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

The longan core is wrapped in cloth and dipped in an unexpected pattern

When you blend into the color you want, you can fish out the cloth and put it in alum water to fix the color. After waiting for another 15 minutes, take out the cloth and rinse off the floating color of the surface with water, avoiding stringing colors when drying. Finally, the clips, leather bands, needles and other materials are removed, and the longan core and branches are removed, the cloth that has not been soaked in dye is still white, the rest is yellowish, and the location of the longan core is like a small flower, which is very wonderful.

In the white dew season, when the longan meets tie-dye - brits flowers and fruity fragrance

This article is the original manuscript of The Straits Metropolis Daily, and may not be reproduced or excerpted without authorization.

Editor: Bai Caihui

Intern: Lai Shuwen

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