5.Words Differentiation

Indigo dye和Shibori的词义辨析

（1）Indigo dye，蓝靛染，一种传统植物染方法，染出非常特殊的蓝色。indigo现在经常指牛仔服装的蓝色。

Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color. Historical-ly, indigo was a natural dye extracted from plants, and this process was important economically because blue dyes were once rare.A large percentage of indigo dye produced today—several thousand tons each year—is synthetic.It is the blue of-ten associated with blue jeans.

（2）Shibori，绞缬，一种传统植物染方法，采用绑、折、扭、压等手法，使部分面料不被染色，形成特殊的图案。

Shibori is a manual resist dyeing technique, which produces patterns on fab-ric. The word comes from Japanese.The main fabrics were silk and hemp, and later cotton.The main dye was indigo and, to a lesser extent, madder and purple root.There are an infinite number of ways one can bind, stitch, fold, twist, or compress cloth for shibori, and each way results in very different patterns.

由于Shibori这个词汇较专业，较少为人所知，因此有时Indigo与Shi-bori混用。