Hmong Indigo Batik cloth is a practice very old and traditional to the Blue/Green Hmong hill tribes. It’s used to decorate the pleated skirts and other articles of dress. The Blue/Green Hmong created symbols from their surroundings and these symbols are used throughout their batiked cloth. Once the roll of cloth is covered with batik drawing and all the wax has dried, it is dyed in a natural indigo vat, dipped many times to achieve the dark blue coloring. Then the wax resists indigo from penetrating in the areas where the wax has been applied, is removed by boiling the cloth in water. From here, these lengths are dried in the fresh, open air, looped between the drying the lines.