Chinese Wax Printing
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Wax printing is an ancient and unique manual printing art form popular among minorities. Wax printing integrates encaustic and dye. Along with wring printing and bandhnu, wax printing is one of the three printing techniques of ancient China.
Wax Printing Textiles of the Chuang Nationality
Wax printing of the Chuang is mainly of white flowers blooming on blue cloth, and is elegant and tasteful. The craftsmanship, although not difficult, requires precise techniques. The raw materials used are primarily local products, such as the beeswax, white cloth, konjak, straw ash, and indigo. Producing a wax printing starts with bleaching a white cloth using straw ash, then pasting the back of the white cloth to a board and rubbing it down after it is dry. The cloth is then cut to a certain size. Finally, colorful pictures are painted freely on the surface of the cloth using a wax spatula dipped with wax (the wax should first be melted in a container using charcoal). After being painted, the waxed cloth is placed into indigo and dipped several times, then put into boiling water to remove the beeswax. After the cloth has dried, a wax printing textile is produced.
Wax Printing Textiles of the Miao Nationality
The traditional way that the Miao make wax printing textiles is by painting various pictures onto different-sized white cloth using a specific wax spatula dipped in melted beeswax. The painted white cloth is then dyed in a dye vat. The beeswax from the dyed cloth is removed in boiling water, and the cloth is rinsed in clean water and dried in the sun.
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