Wax-dyeing originated from ancient "taxie", the principle of which is to make use of the dye-resistant property of beeswax or insect wax by tracing a pattern drawn on a white cloth in melted wax,and when the wax oil congeals, the cloth is soaked into the indigo vat for dyeing. What the cloth is property dyed,the cloth is taken out for drying so that the dye will permeate into the fibre. Finally the cloth is put into water and boiled until the wax is melted and removed from the cloth. Then the wax-dyed cloth is ready. As the wax is easily broken,the cloth is left with irregular cracks of color in the process of dyeing (commonly called ice cracks), creating a unique decorative effect. Wax-dyeing falls into two types: mono-colordyeing and double¬dyeing. In some areas,four to five colors are dyed by means of process printing, with the colors natural and diversified.