Tie dye. A name for a resist-dyeing technique and the fabric made by it. Shibori 絞 designates a huge variety of resist techniques that include folding, stitching nuishime shibori 縫締絞, binding kanoko shibori 鹿の子絞, and sheathing, and can be used alone or in combination. After the bindings are removed, the fabric, which has been partially protected by one of these methods when the cloth is in the dye vat, has hazy patterns that may be radial rasen 螺旋, squarish hitta 匹田, wood grained mokume 杢目, or spider webbed kumo 蜘蛛. Shibori-zome may be combined with such techniques as *yūzen-zome 友禅染 or embroidery. Textiles dyed by bound resist *kōkechi 纐纈, wax resist rōkechi 臈纈, and carved block resist kyōkechi 夾纈 were all imported from China. In the Heian period, shibori was used for banners and Buddhist ceremonial canopies. It was not until the Edo period that special techniques developed in Kyoto, Narumi 鳴海, Arimatsu 有松 (near present-day Nagoya 名古屋, Aichi Prefecture) and other centers of shibori production. Kanoko shibori, especially the large, squarish variant called hitta shibori 匹田絞 was one of the most popular textile designs in the Edo period.