RYUKYU BINGATA JAPAN

Bingata is a dyeing technique that is unique to the Ryukyu Islands and continues to be made as a traditional art in Okinawa today. The bold patterns and bright red, yellow, blue and green colors of bingata are dyed with the aid of a starch called nori. This nori can be applied to the cloth through a pattern stencil or freehand, pressed through a bag like that of a cake decorator This latter process is called tsutsugaki. Both stencil dyeing and tsutsugaki are examples of resistdyeing. Dyes cannot penetrate br, br,