The main folk handicrafts in Guizhou include:
1. Guizhou batik, also known as "Guizhou wax flower", can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. With its elegant tones, beautiful patterns and rich cultural connotations, it is unique among Guizhou folk arts. Batik is an ancient resist-dyeing technique, known as "wax dyeing" in ancient times. Together with twisting and knotting, it is known as the three basic types of dyeing techniques in ancient my country.
2. Guizhou Shiqiao white paper making technique is one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in China. It is inherited in Shiqiao Village, Nangao Township, Danzhai County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Because its production method is completely inherited from ancient handmade paper, it is also called "Shiqiao Ancient Papermaking", and its paper products are also called "Shiqiao Ancient Paper".
3. Miao tin embroidery. Miao tin embroidery in Guizhou Province uses metal "tin" as the material to complete an embroidery. Because of the particularity of the material, it is different from other embroidery materials. As a material for embroidery, silk thread has special characteristics. It has changed people's traditional concept of materials for embroidery and formed a unique embroidery.
4. Sizhou Stone Inkstone. Sizhou Stone Inkstone in Guizhou Province maintains exquisite traditional craftsmanship, blends it with contemporary art, has ingenious and delicate shapes, and complex and rigorous structures. There are more than 60 kinds of patterns carved on it, such as "Double dragons grabbing treasures", "Single dragon playing with pearls", "Two phoenixes rising to the sun", "Dragon and Phoenix showing auspiciousness", "Mandarin ducks playing in the water", "Goldfish inkstone", etc., which are beautiful and simple.
5. Traditional handicrafts in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages. The Yuping flute is made from a unique kind of water bamboo, and is made through four processes: material extraction, blank making, carving, and finished product. The manufacturing processes are complex and all are made by hand.