Batik, a dye resist method for Miao, Bouyei and Gejia people's traditional costumes, has been gaining in fame in recent years and has an increasing number of enterprises paying attention, with some art gallery support.

One place that's interested is the Gao Xuan art design studio, a micro business in the city of Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, whose major business is embroidery and batik and which has seen a boom in micro arts galleries and business in ethnic group areas.

In 2012, the studio began a project to help women in remote areas increase their income through their craftwork and by now, has as many as 90 women of the Miao ethnic group from three villages involved in the project, bringing them an average annual increase in their income of 3,000 yuan ($468) or more.

By 2014, each of the three villages had contracts worth 10,000 yuan.