‘Hometown of Bai Tie-dye’ at the quaint village of Zhou Cheng of Xizhou in Yunnan of China. There is a museum that introduces the cultural history of tie-dye. In 2006, the Bai tie-dye craft was designated a national intangible cultural heritage.

‘I am proud to be the eighteenth-generation inheritor of this craft,’ said Duan Shukun. ‘The refinement of the craft lies in the spacing between each stitch. It cannot be replicated by machines, only human hands can manage such delicate precision.’