The 1,500-Year-Old Art of Chinese Tie-Dye

In southwestern China, the Bai people have been tie-dyeing their clothes with woad for generations.

We went to Dali, the ancestral home of the Bai people, to learn about their unique form of tie-dye and how to be groovy—the Bai way.

0:00 What is Chinese tie-dye?
0:45 Meet your instructor
1:44 How the dye is made
2:33 How the Bai people discovered tie-dye
3:52 Different tie-dye products

CORRECTION: The first line of the video was mistranslated. It should read, "This shade is blue like the ocean."

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Producer: Jessica Novia
Videographer: Guo Yong
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Mastering: Joel Roche

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