Do you like fashion? Today, we can get (1)
colourful
clothes easily. But how about people in old times?
Tie-dye(扎染) is a very old way of dyeing clothes in China. It (2)
has
a history of more than 1,000 years. People in the past made it (3)
by
hand.
Yang Cheng, 52, learnt to tie-dye from his mother in the 1980s. Now he (4)
does
the job all the time. He teaches his daughter this skill. Yang continued(继续) the old skill of tie-dye. At the same time, he studied new tie-dye skills in other (5)
countries
, such as Japan, India and France.
Yang once made two sets of special tie-dyed (6)
dresses
. It took him about two years. He used many skills of tie-dye. Some patterns on the dresses are (7)
traditional
, while others are modern. “I want to put all the beautiful things into tie-dye works,” he said.
Yang now (8)
teaches
tie-dye in many places. More than 100,000 people learn from him. Some people worry that there won’t be tie-dye any more (9)
because
using machines is faster and cheaper. But Yang said, “Machines can’t be designed (10)
like
our creative head.”
