The ice pattern of batik is a character trait that people praise endlessly. The formation of the ice pattern is that the wax painting cloth is constantly rolled and infected, the wax traces are broken, and the dye liquid is soaked on the white cloth with the cracks, leaving a natural pattern that is difficult to imitate artificially, like an ice flower, like a turtle pattern, which is really wonderful, and the wax painting cloth of the same pattern, after the infection, the ice pattern is never the same as a human fingerprint, showing a fresh and natural beauty.

The "ice crack" pattern of batik is similar to the "opening piece" of porcelain enamel, which has a great artistic effect. The size of the crack can be mastered by people, and the depicted object can be expressed just right, and the characteristics are distinct. To dye multi-color layers of flower mouths, you can use the means of color separation sealing wax, which is more expressive. Batik is mostly used to make craft clothing, wall hangings, tablecloths, etc.

Miao batik is a "humanized nature" spiritual symbol that is simplified, deformed, exaggerated and abstracted into scenes of life, production, war, migration and other scenes of the Miao family in accordance with the laws of nature and the logic of psychological activities, forming an idealized gestalt relationship.

This "humanization" role communicates the connection between people's hearts and minds, and builds a bridge of common aesthetic experience of human beings. It is like a link that connects people from different eras, different cultural traditions, and different cultural atmospheres from deep consciousness.

This kind of communication makes different people feel different levels of content from different goals and perspectives, from the accumulated forms.

Under the current historical conditions, Miao batik has been transformed from the original utilitarian content of the idea mark into an aesthetic form of appreciation, and people have re-comprehended and enriched its content in the association and evaluation of this blue and white remote and mysterious symbol.

When people stand in the perspective of modern civilization to examine and evaluate this traditional cultural artwork, it has actually transcended itself, as an artistic element into modern art life, to achieve a new cultural atmosphere and aesthetic realm of leap, showing new cultural significance.

Batik art has been passed down from generation to generation in ethnic minority areas, and after a long historical development process, it has accumulated rich creative experience and formed a unique national art style. It is a flower of national art with great characteristics in China.

Batik patterns are based on realism. The artistic language is simple, innocent, rough and powerful, especially its shape is not constrained by the details of the natural image, and bold changes and exaggerations are carried out, which come from the naïve imagination and contain infinite charm.

The patterns are very rich, there are geometric shapes, there are also natural images, generally from life or beautiful legends, with a strong national color.

Batik is an ancient art, but also a young art, modern art, it summarizes the concise shape, simple and bright color, exaggerated deformation of the decorative pattern, to meet the needs of modern life, suitable for modern aesthetic requirements.

First, the self-produced cloth is bleached and washed with grass ash, and then the cooked taro is kneaded into a paste and smeared on the reverse side of the cloth, and after drying, it is smoothed and polished with horns, and the slate is a natural grinding ironing table.

The first step in painting is to dip the wax with a copper knife by placing the white cloth flat on a wooden board or tabletop, placing the beeswax in a ceramic bowl or metal jar, and melting the wax with charcoal ash or chaff husk fire in the brazier.

In some areas, the large outline is determined according to the pattern of the paper cutout, and then various patterns and patterns are drawn. By drawing a large outline, you can easily draw a variety of beautiful patterns.

The method of dipping and dyeing is to put the painted wax pieces in the indigo dye vat, and each piece generally needs to be soaked for five or six days. After the first soaking, take it out and let it dry, and it will get a light blue color. Soak it several times to get a dark blue color.

If you need to have a dark and light pattern on the same fabric, after the first soaking, you can paint wax flowers on the light blue and dye them, and after dyeing, two shades of patterns will appear. When the wax flakes are put into the dye vat for dipping, some of the "wax seals" are damaged due to folding, so they produce natural cracks, which are generally called "ice lines".

Sometimes "ice patterns" are also made as needed. This "ice pattern" tends to make the batik pattern more layered and rich, with a natural and unique flavor.

In fact, batik is a "wax anti-dyeing method": the wax is dotted on natural fiber fabrics such as hemp, silk, cotton, wool and so on to form a pattern, and then the fabric is placed in the indigo dye vat for infectation.

The batik patterns are endless, and the birds, beasts, fish, insects, flowers, trees, water, wind, and lakes in nature can all be painted into batik patterns. Even the rattan sleeve used for cattle slaughtered and worshiped ancestors or the shape of cow bones connected to the skull; The grass that has cured the disease of Miao women is also an auspicious pattern of batik.

The motifs mainly come from the imitation of objects in the natural environment and the profound recording and expression of national culture, not only that, but these patterns also have some legends. The batik pattern is not constrained by the details of the natural image in terms of modeling, but has made bold changes and exaggerated artistic treatments, which is full of "wild fun".

In the continuous rolling and infecting of the wax painting cloth, the wax traces are broken, and the dyeing liquid will penetrate the white cloth with the cracks, leaving a natural pattern that is difficult to imitate artificially, which is the batik ice pattern. Like ice flowers, tortoise patterns, ice patterns are never the same as human fingerprints, with a fresh and natural beauty, wonderful.

Throughout the batik process, the natural beauty of the ice pattern plays a pivotal role in the overall artistic composition. It can coordinate the layout and color of the pattern, adding a hazy artistic emotion to the picture. The size and direction of the crack can be mastered by people, and the method of separating wax can be used to dye the flower mouth with multiple color levels, which is more expressive.

In the Miao gods, the butterfly mother is the ancestor of all things in the world, including gods, ghosts, people, animals and plants, and thunder and lightning. Therefore, butterflies are considered to be the embodiment of fertility and beauty, and are the most revered and become an important pattern for batik.

Like the butterfly pattern, the centipede pattern is based on the ancient mythological songs of the Miao people. The ancient song tells a beautiful mythical story: according to legend, the ancient thunder, dragon, tiger, snake, and centipede are brothers. Each of the five brothers has his own duties. The little brother centipede cultivated the land, built a house, prospered and lived in peace and contentment, so it was respected by people and became a beautiful insect in people's minds. It is also recognized as one of the main patterns of beautiful wax pattern.

In the consciousness of the Miao people, the dragon has always been a mascot for the benefit of mankind. The Miao concept of the dragon is not afraid, the Miao batik dragon has no fixed pattern, ever-changing, there are bird head snake body, bull head fish body, or flying, or curved, or stretching, change freely.

Similar to the butterfly pattern, the fish and bird pattern is a pattern that celebrates fertility and beauty. The Miao people believe that birds are male and fish are female. Fish and birds form a pattern that is a metaphor for the love of husband and wife.

This is the most local characteristic pattern, according to legend, the ancestors of the Miao people in the migration, once went to a place called Pear Blossom Pass, just when the pear blossoms are in full bloom.

The ancestors in the long-term migration exhausted their meticulous care, and were almost dragged down by the uncertain life, but suddenly saw the pear blossoms blooming all over the mountain, and felt that the world was so beautiful, so they strengthened their confidence in life, and therefore, the pear blossoms left a deep sense of beauty for the Miao people. Children can grow up safely and healthily when they wear pear pattern batik clothes, and the pear pattern is also an auspicious pattern for Miao baby.

The copper drum is a characteristic of Miao culture, and the ancient patterns on the copper drum are often the source of the traditional patterns of Miao batik.

White homespun cloth is generally used for batik painting, but there are also fabrics such as woven white cloth, cotton silk, and poplin. Because the natural fibers of the cloth contain impurities and slurry, which will affect the quality of batik, it must be washed and pulped before it can be used.

The fabric is soaked in water, beaten, and repeated several times, while rubbing, and washed with water over and over again, from part to the whole piece of cloth are repeatedly rubbed and washed.

Wash the fabric in water, hang it up to dry, and stretch it slightly to make it smooth.

Cut it according to the desired size, glue it to the wooden board, use a carving knife or fingernail to draw the general range and outline of the pattern, and if there is a favorite pattern that can be drawn, this link can be understood as what we call a board.

Put the wax in a porcelain bowl on the charcoal brazier and heat it to about 130 degrees Celsius. During the waxing process, the wax must be maintained at this temperature at all times, and two copper wax knives, one large and one small, must be prepared. The wax used in it is mainly beeswax, but it is also used mixed with white wax.

Place the wax bowl on top of a heat source such as a brazier and place a wax block to dissolve.

Use a copper wax knife to reach vertically into the wax bowl and dip it in wax, the wax liquid is stored between the axe-shaped copper sheets, heat transfer with copper to keep warm, after dipping in wax, tap the edge of the bowl to shake off the excess wax, and move the wax knife horizontally to the cloth surface to prevent accidental dripping.

Use a large wax knife to draw the outline of the saliva pocket, with thicker lines. Use a small wax knife to draw a fine line pattern.

The key to wax spotting is to grasp the optimal temperature of the wax liquid, when the wax liquid penetrates the fabric fibers, the anti-dyeing effect can be achieved.

Soak before dyeing, then lift it up to drip dry water and shake the fabric.

The cloth is slowly placed in the dye vat, constantly turning gently, for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Take out the cloth and dry it, and air dry it to oxidize the dye. After entering the dyeing vat three times in sequence, wash it with water, wash it and dry it, and then continue to dip and dye.

Brush the soy milk once or twice before the last few dips to increase the firmness of the dye

At this time, the surface of the wax is stained with dyeing liquid, and there is also floating color on the cloth, so rinse it in cold water to remove the floating color before dewaxing.

Put the dyed cloth into boiling water and boil, melt the wax and remove it, scoop out the floating wax with a spoon and pour it into other containers.

Use chopsticks to pick up the dyed cloth and rinse it in boiling water several times to remove the residual wax.

This is the last step of batik, and the clarity of the pattern depends largely on the treatment of this step.

Replace the water in the basin with soapy water, about 3 grams of soap powder per liter of water. After the soapy water is boiled, put the dyed cloth in and cook for 30 minutes.

After soaping to remove the floating color on the cloth surface, use chopsticks to pick it out. Rinse with clean water.

After soaking the cloth in clean water for a day and night, it is slightly cleaned and dried, and the entire batik production process is completed.

The Miao people in ethnic villages are the only ethnic minorities in China with a population of more than 5 million, and they are also one of the oldest ethnic groups in China.

Other humanistic batik is an ancient folk traditional textile printing and dyeing handicraft in China.

The Miao people in ethnic villages are the only ethnic minorities in China with a population of more than 5 million, and they are also one of the oldest ethnic groups in China.

In ancient times, batik was called "wax valerian", and "valerian" means dyeing, and it is called together with "twisted valerian" (tie-dyeing) and "clamped valerian" (printed blue cloth).

Batik was called "wax valerian" in ancient times, and "valerian" means dyeing, and it is known as the three major anti-dyeing techniques in ancient China, together with "twisted valerian" (tie-dyeing) and "clamped valerian" (printed blue cloth).

The Gejia batik originated from the ancient Gejia men who went up the mountain to hunt, was dripped on the body by the bee sap, and the color of the bee sap and flowers and plants on the clothes could not be cleaned off after returning home, and it was found that beeswax was the best protective color of clothes, so the Gejia family invented the technique of drawing pictures (batik) with beeswax.

There is no writing in the leather family, and the batik skill can only be passed on by word of mouth. The batik technique of the leather family focuses on the expression of consciousness, recording the historical conquest of the leather family, the migration of ethnic groups and other cultures, and each pattern and pattern in the leather family batik has a profound connotation.

The meaning and concept of batik pattern cultivate the outlook on life and values of the Ge family, the love for nature, and the warm emotions for the prosperity and inheritance of the nation, reflecting the meaning of the national character and artistic temperament of the Ge family.

The women of the Ge family used batik to make dresses, with red tasseled hats and shawls, that is, waistcoats, waistbands, red leggings, and silver ornaments, which formed the dress of the women of the Ge family. The noble customs and commemoration of the love for batik have been preserved from generation to generation, so that this skill can be inherited, and their own national culture can be inherited.

The batik process of the leather family is complex, the girl of the leather family began to learn to paint wax from the age of seven or eight, first use two pieces of copper to make a small triangular wax tool, called "wax knife", and then use a white cloth to spread on a smooth square wooden board, put the beeswax in an earthen bowl and melt it with fire, and when the wax is boiled to about 80 °C, use a wax knife to dip the wax on the white cloth to form various patterns, this step is called wax pointing.

After the wax is ordered, the wax is arranged in the indigo dyeing vat for three days and three nights, and after the dyeing is done, the wax cloth is boiled with boiling water, and this step is dewaxing. After dewaxing, the wax cloth needs to be cleaned to be completed, and the wax cloth after drying is blue on the blue background without wax, and the white pattern is on the wax spot, forming a blue and white style with distinctive characteristics of leather batik.

Most of the patterns of the leather batik are geometric abstract figures centered on the sun. All things grow by the sun, reflecting the cosmology of the Gejia, the snails, fish and shrimp, frogs, melon seeds, stars, teeth, cranes, dragons, phoenixes, butterflies, bats, iron hooks, landscapes, flowers and other patterns in the batik pattern cleverly combined, dot painting pays attention to the symmetry of the structure, fine and rigorous, the shape is simple and generous, giving people a sense of harmony and beauty, which is the crystallization of the Ge family's understanding of all things in the world, the understanding and pursuit of beauty, fully embodies the unique history and culture of the Gejia.

Due to the mysterious and strange abstract patterns, the various production processes, the mastery of high-end handmade techniques and the way of inheritance from generation to generation, the inheritance and development of batik art have made it difficult for the inheritance and development of batik.

With the aging of the older generation of artists, young people are forced to live outside to work, and there is no successor to the exquisite traditional crafts, and the leather family batik is facing a difficult situation. Take a look at the latest chapters of "Dream Claw Book House in the Great Era" and read it for free for the first time.