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Blue Wax-resist Dyed Tabby with Flowers
2018-01-06


Tang dynasty
L78cm;W51cm(2739)
As demonstrated by a highly exotic wax-resist dyed cotton cloth found in an eastern-Han tomb in Niya at Minfeng of Xinjiang, wax-resist dyeing might have been introduced from abroad. Nonetheless, by the Tang dynasty, it had already developed as one of the three chief resist-dyeing methods together with tie dyeing and clamp-resist dyeing.
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