Nantou County, located in the middle of Taiwan Province, China, has 
formed a local characteristic industry, and Tang Wenjun is the local inheritor of blue dyeing.

 

The production technology of indigo, a Taiwanese plant, was first introduced from Chinese mainland. Vegetation dyeing is an interesting process, which can dye red, orange, yellow, green and unexpected colors. Only blue is not easy to appear, and Tang Wenjun is curious about it. The production of 
blue dyeing needs to go through complicated processes such as soaking, bluing and filtering to turn it into blue mud; In the dye vat, the blue mud becomes a dye liquor with slightly green luster after the link of building blue; It is in this green soluble liquid that beautiful blue flowers are formed.

 

In Tang Wenjun's blue dyeing practice, pattern paste dyeing is a blue dyeing process which is close to the original design effect by covering the 
hollowed-out pattern with soybean paste or glutinous rice paste as dyestuff agent on the carved pattern paper. Tang Wenjun, who loves natural colors, often integrates what he hears and sees into his blue-dyed creation. Elements such as the sparkling Sun Moon Lake and the owl, the patron saint of Shao nationality, are the inspiration of his creation. The blue and clear colors make the local scenery displayed in a more creative form.