Perhaps the most amazing of the indigo discharge designs, 'Rose' was intended to have a white ground. This required that the whole cloth be dyed blue, then discharged or bleached out (with blocks cut in the negative of the design) in all areas except for those intended to be blue or green. The cloth was then cleared by a soap or bran bath, dried, block printed with a mordant for yellow, submerged in a dye bath of weld, cleared again, block printed with a mordant for madder, and submerged in a madder vat to produce red and other colors. Evidence of the use of the indigo discharge technique can be seen on the reverse of this fabric, which remains blue in many areas that are white on the face since the bleaching agent did not permeate through to the back of the cloth. The selvage is also blue since it was not necessary to bleach out an area that would not be printed.