Traditional tie-dyeing
Since at least eight century in Japan has been practiced form of tie-dying called Shibory. This form of tie-dye includes a number of resist techniques (gathering, stitching, scrunching and tightly tieing) before submerge the fabric in a dye bath. There exist over 200 recognized shibori tie-dyeing patterns. Some achieved by twisting fabric and stitching with thread, some from wrapping the fabric around a core of wood, rope or other material, and bind it tightly with string or thread. This areas that are under the binding or against core would remain undyed. Tie dyeing techniques is used in many other countries for centuries for example Hausa region of West Africa, Kano, Nigeria, Malay-Indonesian (here it called Plangi and tritik), India (they used term bandhna for this technique) Many people think that the Hausa techniques were the inspiration for the hippie fashion in 20th century.
