Tie-dye products made by Hai'an Jinhua Apparel Co Ltd. [Photo/WeChat account: ntwgx6]

Hai'an Jinhua Apparel Co Ltd in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, was recently listed among the third batch of creative bases for intangible cultural heritage items in Jiangsu by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.

The provincial department requires these bases to strengthen their research and development of creative intangible cultural heritage products and their derivatives to function as a destination for cultural innovation, tourism, and education.

Hai'an Jinhua Apparel is a protector of Nantong tie-dying techniques and the company has integrated modern technology with the traditional craft to produce different kinds of tie-dying products.

Among them, a folding screen featuring 108 characters in Outlaws of the Marsh, a classic Chinese novel, has won the most prestigious Mountain Flower Award from the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Tie-dye works are on display at the Jiao Baolin Tie-dying Art Gallery, which was built by Hai'an Jinhua Apparel Co Ltd. [Photo/WeChat account: ntwgx6]

Hai'an Jinhua Apparel has also set up the Jiao Baolin Tie-dying Art Gallery, which is free to the public, to present the history and procedures of Nantong tie-dying techniques, as well as more than 1,500 pieces of tie-dye apparel, home textiles, decorations, and artworks.

In 2018, the art gallery was recognized as a practice base for intangible cultural heritage items by six universities, including Nanjing University, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Macao, and Nanjing Normal University of Special Education.