In World 192‚ artificial dyeing has ceased to exist.
The longstanding importance, tradition and symbolism of the colour red in Chinese culture is emphasised through the art of natural dyeing.
This Exploration was contributed by Ni Si Ting, Lee Ericia, Eldeen Ng and Hannah Bianca Velasco Chiu (located in Singapore and the Philippines), developed from a World contributed by this group, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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