Batik cloth is made by waxing, drawing, dyeing, dewaxing and rinsing on the cloth. Because in the process of dyeing, the surface of the wax white cloth will have natural cracks, so that the dye will infiltrate the white cloth to be colored, and there will be many coarse or fine irregular color patterns, also called moiré patterns. These moiré patterns are the difference between true, The standard of imitation batik cloth, because any imitation batik cloth designed into the "moire pattern" can be found regularly, and the real batik cloth is often difficult to find, and can not find the exact same tortoise pattern.
Cotton cloth is often used in Qiandongnan and Qiannan, usually plain cotton. Danzhai and Sandu like to use bucket pattern cloth, which is a kind of home-woven fabric with small diamond-shaped layers of overlapping patterns on the cloth surface. Clothing products, especially quilt surfaces, are mostly made of bucket pattern cloth. Guiding, Longli, Kaiyang, Fuquan and other places in Guizhou like to use linen or cotton and linen interwoven cloth. Linen and wool are popular in western and northwestern Guizhou.