Carl Schuster describes a folk tradition of stitch-resist dyeing practiced by women in Szechuan, Kweichow and Yunnan in western China. The cloths are mostly indigo-dyed cotton bedspreads, bed valances, bundle wrappers and hangings. He explains the folding, stitching and cord-resist methods, compares them with plangi and tritik, and discusses the motifs (lotus, herons, butterflies, lions, fish, Taoist symbols). Six plates, a frontispiece and an end-piece show specimens from his 1932-1938 collection. Extensive notes cite literature on resist dyeing in China, Indonesia and West Africa.