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rōketsuzome

Rōketsuzome (Japanese: 蝋纈染め) sometimes shortened to rōzome (ろう染め), is a traditional wax-resist textile dyeing technique in Japan, akin to Indonesian batik.

Roketsuzome (Japanese style batik) printing wheels at Roketsuzome Yamamoto, Kyoto, Japan.
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Rōketsuzome (Japanese: 蝋纈染め) sometimes shortened to rōzome (ろう染め), is a traditional wax-resist textile dyeing technique in Japan, akin to Indonesian batik. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Rōketsuzome”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

rōketsuzome is Japanese wax-resist dye, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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