Zhangjiajie Batik (Laran)
 2016-12-20 16:41:20   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

Laran is a traditional folk craftwork in Chinese Tu Minority. The batik is one of the three printing crafts in old China. No matter in villages or stockaded villages of Zhangjiajie, girls learn batik from when they are a child. The skills often are devoluted generation after generation. In most Zhangjiajie villages, every family has its own wax knives and dye vats. The batik usually is made by women. They can draw all kinds of fancy pictures on cloth optionally. And the cloth is the handmade cloth by them. The Tu Minority batik is lovely in style. And the patterns are from the natural elements such as flowers, birds, fish and insects and people"s daily works and activities. The batik can be made into clothes and bags etc.