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Drawing on the background; to draw by brush the lines of sketch or picture on the cloth, in a
squeezed sap called Aobana, in English, blue flower
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Applying paste; to trace these lines using a special utensil from whose nib a very
thin thread of paste is squeezed out through the cone tube.
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Colouring; after the paste has been absorbed into the cloth, to cover those parts
with a diluted liquid of beans on the reverse of the cloth to get
rid of the blue sap lines.
After being dried naturally, to dye the parts of picture with pigments
or paint in many colours.
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Resist in paste; in order to dye the background, to put paste on the dyed parts of
the picture whose new dye should be kept clear.
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Substratum dying; to paint the ground with wide brush soaked in dye.
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Finish; after the substratum dyeing having dried, to steam the cloth for about
one hour and wash off the paste on the picture already dyed.
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