blue cloth with design in white

China folk traditional craft printing and dyeing products, known as medicinal patch cloth in the Song Dynasty and flower watering cloth in the Ming Dynasty, are said to have been invented by Jiading-Gui Xing. Nantong is the main producing area of blue calico in China, and homespun and natural bluegrass are common things for farmers, so the blue calico dyeing workshops in Qianzhuang Houfang once spread all over rural market towns. Blue calico is mainly used to make daily clothes, quilts, mosquito nets, pillowcases, wrapping cloth and so on. The patterns of blue calico are simple, beautiful and auspicious, and most of them are based on animals and birds, flowers, trees and myths and legends, such as: Five Blessingg (bat) holding longevity, Jiqing Youyou (fish), lion rolling hydrangea, carp jumping over the dragon gate, etc. Nowadays, the blue printed fabric has developed from single-sided printing to double-sided printing, from monochrome to multi-color, from small cloth to wide cloth, from homespun to fine cotton grey cloth and cotton-linen blended cloth. There are more and more varieties of colors, such as blue printed door curtains, wall hangings, tablecloths, shoes and hats, handbags, toys and other handicrafts, especially blue printed cloth fashion, which has become a beautiful landscape in the city. Nantong Blue Calico: Report of Nantong Municipal People's Government on Delineating the Protection Scope of Nantong Blue Calico Geographical Indication Products, Nantong Blue Calico (Draft), the local standard of Jiangsu Province, Tong Zhengfa [2012] No.83, is a geographical indication protection product.
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