The cloth is dyed and then dried a total of nine times before it is finished. To use a machine to apply the pattern directly gives a very poor sense of quality. There is no comparison between a genuine handmade indigo print and a machine-made one, "says Wei. There are even some sellers who copy her designs and writing directly off the material.
「真正的藍印花布是用植物提煉的染料，染一次、曬一次，要浸染 9 次才完成，用機器直接印的質感很粗糙，兩者根本不能比，」魏籤懿說，甚至有些賣家連圖片、文字都直接抄襲，她也只能更努力研發新產品。