They dipped the fabric in a vat of dye.

他们在染缸中浸染织品。

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Dye VAT is a key equipment in printing and dyeing industry.

染缸是印染行业中的关键设备之一。

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Production, it will be painted a good wax printed cloth put in the dye VAT of indigo straight after numerous disseminated, the out-dry boiling wax, rinse clean, and any need to sew.

制作时，将绘好的蜡花布投放直蓝靛的染缸中，经多次浸染后，取出凉干，煮沸脱蜡，漂洗干净，任需缝制。

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In summer, when the temperature soars to 45 degrees centigrade, soaking lengths of cotton fabric in a boiling vat of dye calls for a special kind of endurance.

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But on a recent winter afternoon Yasin's younger sibling was himself toiling over a vat of indigo dye in which the water hasn't been changed in a generation.

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