Both batik and blue calico are traditional printing and dyeing arts and crafts popular among Chinese.
The process of batik making is delicate: first draw some designs or contours of images of a flower, bird, fish or insect on a piece of white cloth, the use a special brass knife to scoop melted wax to fill in those designs or contours as in hardens on the cotton cloth. The cloth is immersed completely in a jar of indigo dye bath so that the unwaxed parts take on color. The dyed cloth is boiled to melt off the wax and to leave clear patterns in white on a blue ground. Since wax is easy to crack, the dye penetrates fine cracks naturally formed in the solidified wax, leaving hair thin blue lines on the undyed white designs and enhancing the charm of the final product. Batik can be dyed with a single or multiple colors, while some ethnic people adopt four or five colors to make the cloth motley and look even more gorgeous. In the ethnic areas, batik is used extensively to make clothes art quilt covers, headscarves, belts, etc.
Blue calico is also white-and blue cloth which is produced in many provinces of China, the method of making blue calico is to cover a piece of white cloth with a paper cut, the spread a layer of mixed of lime, bean powder and water over it and dip it in an indigo dye bath. After being dried in the shade, the layer of the mixture is scraped off and there is a finished blueprint with two colors, either white back-ground with blue designs or blue background with white designs. Pictures on such cloth are usually flowers, human figurines or legends. Blue calico is used for making clothes, quilt covers, door curtains, canopies and belts.
Batik and blue calico with strong nationalistic features has become more and more popular in modern urban life.
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