Botanical Name - Acacia-Nilotica
Common Name - Bark Of Acacia
Other Name - Babool Chaal
Part Used - Trees Bark
Uses - Tanning Agent, Dyeing And Ayurvedic Remedies
The genus Acacia belongs to the family Mimosaceae Acacia, which is a very large genus containing tree, shrub and climbers. Acacia Nilotica(linn) wild exdel is known as in as babul Kikar, Babur in Hindi. It is truly a multipurpose tree. Its timber is valued by rural folk, its leaves and pod are used as fodder and gum has number of uses. Almost every part of the babul tree is utilised for some purpose. The sapwood of babul is sharply demarcated from the heartwood and white, whitish turning pale yellow on exposure. The heartwood is pinkish brown and turns reddish brown on ageing. The bark is obtained mainly as a by-product when trees are felled for timber or fuel. Leaves of Acacia Nilotica is known as Gum Arabica. Dye stuff from A.Nilotica is extracted by boiling the pods, leaves, barks in varying proportion and occasional additions of wood extracts. Variation in colours from yellow, to black through brown can be obtained by varying properties of leaves, pods, barks and wood extracts.
Alum (potassium aluminum sulfate) is the most common mordant. We can add alum to the dye bath, mix well, then add yarn or fibre to get mordanted. It is often used in canning and preserving also inexpensive and safe to use. It improves light and wash fastness of all natural dyes and keeps colours clear.
Botanical Name - Areca Catechu
Common Name - Areca Nut
Other Name - Areca Nut
Part Used - N
Uses - Textile Dyeing
Nut brown is liquid paste dye extracted from natural source Areca Palm tree nuts. It is mainly grown in much of the tropical Pacific Southeast and South Asia. It is commonly referred to as betel nut. Liquid colour extract of Areca Nut is easily soluble in water and imparts a brilliant red brown colour to different natural fibers like wool, silk and cotton with very good light and wash fastness properties
Copper Sulfate- It saddens the colors and brings out greens. It is a good additive. Used alone, one ounce will mordant a pound of wool. Rinse fiber well, store wet or dry. we can choose to save a few coins and use these as your mordant. Copper produces lovely greens
Botanical Name - Onosma Hispidum
Common Name - Purging Nut
Other Name - Physic Nut, Barbados Nut
Part Used - Trees Bark & Wood
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Ayurveda-Syphilis And Leprosy
Onosma Hispidum is commonly known as Ratanjot. These are obtained from the . Commonly known as Ratanjot or Alkanet. Roots are the basic colour producing parts of this plant, which yields red colour for commercial of dye used for colouring foodstuff, wool, oils and for medicinal preparation too. It belongs to the Borage family.
Botanical Name - Terminalia Chebula
Common name - Myrobalan
Other Name - Harde
Part Used - Dried Fruits
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Mordanting And Leather Tanning
Terminalia chebula extract is in the form of crystalline powder, which have strong stability and high colour fastness. Yellow dye obtained from T. chebula fruits can be applied to textile substrate with or without using mordents to get a large range of shades of reasonable colorimetric fastness properties. This dye is a rich source of tannins. Hydrolysable tannins, chebulagic acid, chebulinic acid, gallic acid, and ellagic acid are the major tannins present in myrobalans..
Botanical Name - Terminalia Chebula
Common Name - Myrobalan
Other Name - Harda, Haritiki
Part Used - Dried Fruits
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Mordanting And Leather Tanning
Terminalia Chebula is medium to large sized deciduous tree. Haritaki is one main key ingredient in triphala and famous rejuvenating herb. Common name of haritaki are hog plum and walnut. Haritaki is gentle laxative, digestive, tonic, expectorant and anti-dysentery. Myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) is a yellow colour natural vegetable dye produced from the dried fruits of tree Terminalia chebula which is mainly found in the himalayas. These dried fruits are first grinded into a powder form which is a rich source of tannin and can be used both as a mordant and a dye for cotton and other plant fibres.
Botanical Name - Quercus Infectoria
Common Name - Oak Tree Fruit
Other Name - Manjakani, Majuphal
Part Used - Dried Fruits
Uses - Textile Dyeing,Ayurvedic Anti-Bacterial And For Wound Healing
natural products characterized as the plant-insect symbiont. They are formed as the pathological excrescence on the young branches or twigs of plants as a result of the insect attack and deposition of the eggs. Gallnut has been used by both Western and Eastern cultures as a traditional medicine for various body disorders as an astringent in painful haemorrhoids and antiphlogistic for the inflammatory condition. The gallnuts are said to find extensive application in tanning, dyeing, mordanting and in the manufacture of ink. When used on its own gallnut extract produces beiges on wool, cotton, silk. With an iron after-bath, the colour changes to grey and black. This extract can also be used to sadden other colours. Gallnut extract is also very useful for the mordanting effect of tannic.
Kerria lacca is a species of scale insect of the family Kerriidae. It is most well known for secreting lac a commercially important scarlet substance that is used for dyeing wool and silk, as a cosmetic, and as a medicinal drug. Kerria lacca insects inhabit trees in colonies of thousands and secrete the resinous substance.
Kerria lacca excretions can be processed to produce shellac, which is used as an ingredient in wood finishing varnishes and polishes such as French Polish. This is a natural red dye and is obtained by washing the raw stick lac by water and then precipitating the filtered wash liquor with acid. The main colouring component is Laccaic acid.
Botanical name: indigofera tinctoria
Indigo is natural dye used since ancient times to produce beautiful blues that range from sky blue to deep, almost black blue. Frequently, people are nervous about dyeing with indigo. It is a tricky dye to work with, mostly because it is not water soluble.
To solve this problem, we extracted the main colouring component from the leaves of indigofera tinctoria plant by using biological and eco- friendly methods. The main main colouring component of indigo blue is indigotin.
Indigo is a dark blue crystalline powder and is not soluble in either water or alcohol. First we make it soluble in an alkaline vat where oxygen has been removed either by fermentation process.
Natural indigo really is better - it can create a deeper blue, and, since it is not water soluble, you can wash natural indigo over and over without any color loss.
No mordant is required when you dye with indigo.
Natural indigo is a sustainable dye; after the pigment has been extracted the plant residue can be composted and used as a fertilizer and the water reused to irrigate crops.
The pomegranate is considered to have originated in the region from Iran to Northeast India. The genus name Punica refers to that Phoenicians, who were active in broadening its cultivation, partly for religious reasons. The rind of the fruits and the bark of the pomegranate tree are used as a traditional remedy against diarrhoea, dysentery and intestinal parasites. The major colouring components in pomegranate is tannins, extracted from the fresh and dried peels. Pomegranate is considered as a plant based yellow dye. Which are tannin, along with some parts of pelletierin called tanante, about 19% along with pelletierine. The main colouring agent in the pomegranate peel is granatonine which is present in the alkaloid from N-methyl graatonine. Punica granatum is from the family Punicacea. It grows in all warm countries of the world and was originally a native of Persia. Colours obtained exhibit good fastness to washing, rubbing and light.
Botanical Name -Rheum Emido
Common Name - Ruharb
Other Name - Revanchini
Part Used - Roots
Uses - Textile Dying , Medical Purposes.
Rheum Emodi, commonly known as Himalayan rhubarb, is a medicinal herb used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine and it is a conventional natural dye used for textile. It makes bright yellow colour and obtains an odoriferous property. This dye is produced by drying the rhizome and roots of a Rheum Emodi. Dye is extracted in aqueous medium from dry powdered materials. The dye when dissolved in soft water gives golden yellow shade with the salt Alum and copper sulphate on wool and silk. It belongs to the family polygonacease. Rheum Emodi has been used in various traditional system as laxative, tonic, diuretic and to treat fever, cough, indigestion, menstrual disorder since antiquity. This plant shares core medicinal values in the Indian Ayurveda, as it acquires anti-inflammatory and anti bacterial properties. The medicinal properties of the same are as purgative and astringent tonic. Rhubarb is used as purgative. The most common constituents of Rheum emodi possess anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti fungal, nephroprotective activities.
Botanical Name - Tagetes Erecta
Common Name - Marigold
Other Name - Genda Flower
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Food Industry,Asthama And Cough.
Marigold is a potential ornamental plant grown commercially in different part of the world and obtained from different species of Tagetes of family Asteraceae. The genus is also recognised as a potential source of very interesting biologically active products viz, carotenoids that are being used as food colourants. Tagetes (Marigold flowers) are yellow to orange red in colour are a rich sources of lutein, a carotenoid pigment. The principle colouring component of marigold flowers is lutein, a fat-soluble carotenoid, which is responsible for the yellow to orange colour to the dye. It also contains galenite, lycopene, V-carotene. Marigold contains some or many medicinal properties. It is used internally in the treatment of indigestion, colic, severe constipation, cough and dysentry.
Botanical Name - Nyctanthes-Arbo
Common Name - Night Jasmine
Other Name - Ratrani, Har Sringar
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Medicine Purpose, Fabric Dyeing
Nyctanthes-arbor-trusts L., is the night flowering jasmine or parijat or hengra bubar which is a species of Nyctanthes native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. The flowers are fragrant, with a five to eight -lobed with Corolla with an orange red centre. The bright orange tubes of the flowers contain a saffron-yellow colouring matter called Nyctanthin, which is identical with crocheting from saffron. The flower contains an abundance of mannitol and is emmenagogue, which can be used medicinally to provoke menstruation. Anciently the dye was also used for dyeing cotton cloth and as a cheap substitute for saffron in colouring the robes of Buddhist priests. It imparts a beautiful orange, yellow or golden colour like saffron, but the colour is easily washed off, which rapidly fades in the sun. Use of limejuice or alum in the dye bath makes the colour moderately resistant to light, soap and acid.
Botanical Name - Allium Cepa
Common Name - Onion Skin
Other Name - Onion Skin
Part Used - Skins Or Peels
Uses - Textile Dyeing,Used In Medicinal Oils, Hair Care .
The onion Allium Cepa L. also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The dry onion skin produces natural hue which are used for dyeing textiles. Pretreatment of the fabric by metal mordant can give good fastness properties for cotton, wool and silk dyed fabrics. These are used as natural vegetable dye. The skin is inedible and it contains dyestuff called pelargonidin.
For effective and good dyeing, we use extracts of allium cepa skin. These skins are found in different colours depending on the variety of onions like red onion, yellow onion etc. These skins are easily available at our home as a waste from the kitchen. The skins are first separated according to their colour and then grinded into powder form. This powder form dye is mixed with different mordents because it gives good fastness and dark shades of colour on cotton, silk and wool fabrics. The dye has very good potential of uptake, adherence to the fabric and has good wash and light fastness.
Botanical Name - Lawsoina Inermis
Common Name - Heena
Other Name - Mehndi/ Henna Leaves
Part Used - Dried Leaves
Uses - Dye Skin , Hair
Henna dye is prepared from the plant lawsonia inermis also known as the henna tree or mehndi. Henna has been used since antiquity to dye skin, hair, fingers, as well as including silk wool and leather. The leaf of the henna plant contains a finite amount of lawsone molecule. Colors of henna leaves depend on quality of henna leaves and also metal, oil, other ingredients. By adding mordant like chrome, ferrous, and alum shade are different. Henna powder give a dark colour with ferrous. The dry powder is mixed with one of a number of liquid, including water, lemon juice, strong tea, and other ingredients, depending on your end use.
It has light green pinnate. Indigo leaves a product of Indigofera Tinctoria plant which give brilliant blue colour by fermentation of indigo leaves dye to fermentation indigo leaves produced a Indigotin liquid. It is responsible for blue colour today most dye is synthetic but natural dye from I. Tinctoria still available. Indigo is among the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing. In old day is a largest producer of indigo (neel).
Botanical Name - Nelumbo Nucifera
Common Name - Mallouts Phillppensis
Other Name - Red Kamala/ Kamala Tree.
Part Used - Dried Fruit/ Bark / Seeds
Uses - Textile Dyeing
Kamala, Kameela, Kamcela, Spoonwood, Rottlera, Tinctoria all are synonyms of Mallotus philippensis, is a powder form of its fruit. It is a medicinal tree due to the presence of various phytochemicals. The leaves contain an alkaloid. The glands and hairs covering the fruit give rottlerin, mallotoxin and kamalin. The bark has astringent action due to the presence of tannin and applied as a poultices on cutaneous diseases. The colouring components of Kamala comprises of several of several chalcones. They are rottlerin, 4-hydroxy rottlerin,3, 4-dihydroxy rottlerin.
Kamala powder exhibits several pharmacological properties such as anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and antimicrobial activity. It is a powdery substance obtained from its fruit. Tree is also known as the monkey tree and found throughout tropical India.
Colour obtained on cellulose fabrics is ranges from golden yellow to apricot shade, while brighter shades are achieved on silk and wool. Different shade can be created with the use of iron mordant.
Quebracho is a hardwood tree indigenous to . Their notoriously dense wood earned them a name derived from the phrase, quebrar hacha which means axe breaker. It is the source of the worlds most stable polyphenol. These polyphenols are what makes quebracho of interest of medicine. Its extracts naturally contains tannins, a water soluble polyphenol. Quebracho is a proanthocyanidin within the class of tannin, making it an extremely powerful antioxidant. They have many medicinal properties such as antifungal, antiviral, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory. Quebracho is suitable for dyeing cellulose fibres and also performs well on silk and wool, and yields a lovely pinkish peach to brown rose colour. On wool brighter shade can be obtained using the Alum mordant.
Botanical Name - Acacia-Nilotica
Common name - Bark Of Acacia
Other Name - Babool Chaal
Part Used - Trees Bark
Uses - Tanning Agent, Dyeing And Ayurvedic Remedies
Acacia nilotica, is a genus of shrubs belonging to the sub-family Fabaceae. Its bark being rich in phenolic such as tannins, quercetin, catechin etc.is used in dyeing and cosmetics. Our Garnet Brown extract is dry dark brown yellow crystalline powder that is very stable and of high colour fastness. We extract the main colouring component from the bark and pods of the tree by boiling them in water, it gives a slippery liquid. When the liquid is evaporated and the extract remains behind which is a rich source of tannins called catechin and is easily soluble in water.
Botanical Name - Caealpinia Sappan
Common name - Sappan Wood
Other Name - Patang Lakdi
Part Used - Wood
Uses - Fabric Dyeing Pink Colour, Antiinflammatory And Medicinal Purpose
Jaipur pink or Sappan wood natural dye extract is produced by solvent extraction method. Sappan wood is known as Indian redwood, or also called as the heartwood of Caesalpinia trees. The heartwood contains different water soluble flavonoids namely, brazilin, protosappanin and haematoxylin. Brazilin is the main flavonoid constituent found in the heartwood, which is well known as the natural red color dye for staining cotton, silk and wool. Under natural condition it mostly grows in hilly areas. The Brazilin gives red pigment to fabrics. In extraction process of Brazilin, the wood is first crushed into powder form and then the powdered bark is boiled with water at high temperature for about 40-45 minute. Then it is filtered and treated with different mordents to give a varied range of strong red dyes, ranging from deep crimsons to pinks.
Botanical Name -Tagetes Erecta
Common Name - Marigold
Other Name - Marigold
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Textile Dyeing And Medicinal Purposes As Inflammatory , Wound Healing Etc.
African marigold [Tagetes erecta L.], a major source of carotenoids and Lutin, is grown as a cut flower and a garden flower, in addition to being grown for its medicinal values. Marigold flowers [Tagetes ], which are yellow to orange red in colour, are a rich source of lutein, a carotenoid pigment. Nowadays, Lutein is becoming an increasingly popular active ingredient used in the Food Industry and Textile coloration.This pigment has acquired greater significance because of its excellent colour value. Although marigold flower extract has been used in veterinary feeds, the potential use of marigold as a natural textile colorant has not been exploited to its full extent. This is due to the lack of information on its safety, stability, and compatibility in textile coloration. The dye potential of the extract was evaluated by dyeing using the flower, in 100 % cotton and silk fabrics under normal dyeing conditions. And it gives good strength and fastness of colour on cotton, silk and yarn.
Botanical Name - Terminalia Chebula
Common Name - Myrobalan
Other Name - Harda, Haritiki
Part Used - Dried Fruits
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Mordanting And Leather Tanning
Terminalia Chebula is medium to large sized deciduous tree. Haritaki is one main key ingredient in triphala and famous rejuvenating herb. Common name of haritaki are Indian hog plum and Indian walnut. Haritaki is gentle laxative, digestive, tonic, expectorant and anti-dysentery. Myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) is a yellow colour natural vegetable dye produced from the dried fruits of tree Terminalia chebula which is mainly found in the himalayas. These dried fruits are first grinded into a powder form which is a rich source of tannin and can be used both as a mordant and a dye for cotton and other plant fibres.
Botanical Name - Punica-Granatum
Common Name - Pomegranate Peel
Other Name - Grenade Ã??corce
Part Used - Fruit-Grind
Uses - Textile Dye, Natural Mordant And Ayurveda
The rind of pomegranate is a rich source of tannin, about 20% with pelletierine . The main coloring agent in the pomegranate peel is granatonine (23%) which is present in the alkaloid form N-methyl granatonine, This compound gives colour to the dye. This colour is simply extracted by boiling the pomegranate rind into water. The extracted dye is easily soluble in water and gives variety of shades from light yellow to dark color when combined with different organic mordents & change in pH.
Botanical Name - Rheum Emodi
Common name - Himalayan Rubharb
Other Name - Revanchini
Part Used -Roots
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Ayurdeva And Food Colours
Apsara yellow or an India Ruharb is a stout herb mainly found in the Himalayas, it is distributed from Kashmir to Sikkim. The stout roots are the chief source of golden yellow colour and mainly use as colorant in textile industry. The chief colouring component of Rheum emodi is chrysophonic acid. Colouration of silk and wool with Rheum emodi is found to be effectively accomplished within a wide pH range of 4-8. Dye uptake, rate of dyeing and affinity of this colour are found to be higher for silk fibre than that for wool fibre.
Botanical Name - Acacia Catechu
Common Name - Kattha
Other Name - Black Catechu
Part Used - Root
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Medicinal Purpose
Catechu is extract of Acacia tree used variously as food additive, astringent tannin and dye. It is commonly known as cutch, black cutch, cachou, khoyer and Kathy. Catechu dyed fabric imparts some or many medicinal activities. Kathy has antimicrobial properties in them. It has astringent and neutral properties. The main colouring component of this is catechin. Cutch is an important historical brown dye that comes from the heartwood of the cutch tree (Acacia catechu). This colour was produced by steeping the wood into hot water until a syrupy liquid immerses. It has high light fastness and wash fastness as well as being inexpensive. Cutch is a very rich source of tannins and excellent dye for cottons, it is also suitable for dyeing wool, silk, and cotton a yellowish- brown. Cutch gives gray-browns with an iron mordant and olive-browns with a copper mordant.
Botanical Name -Rubia Cordifolia
Common Name - Alizarin
Other Name - Madder / Manjistha
Part Used - Root
Uses - Textile Dyeing , Medicinal Purposes.
Alizarin, also spelled Alizarine,is a red dye originally obtained from the root of the common madder plant, Rubia tinctorum. Alizarin is the main ingredient for the manufacture of the madder lake pigments known to painters as Rose madder and Alizarin Crimson. Alizarin in the most common usage of the term and has a deep red color. Alizarin changes color depending on the pH of the solution it is in, thereby making it a pH indicator.
The application of alizarin to cotton, wool, or silk requires prior impregnation of the fiber with a metal oxide, or mordant. The shade produced depends on the metal present: aluminum yields a red; iron, a violet; and chromium, a brownish red.
Botanical Name - Bixa Orellana
Common Name - Annatto
Other Name - Sindoor Plant
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Fabric Dyeing, Antibiotics And Cardiotonic.
Candy orange is a natural dye extract produced from seeds of Bixa orellana or annatto tree. Annatto is obtained from the outer layer of the seeds of the tropical tree Bixa orellana L. The principle pigment in annatto, namely bixin, is a carotenoid, which is contained in the resinous coating surrounding the seed itself. Processing may alternatively involve aqueous alkaline hydrolysis with simultaneous production of norbixin. Traditionally, water or vegetable oil is used as a suspending agent, although solvent extraction is now also employed to produce more purified annatto extracts. The unmordented cotton gives dull shades but using proper mordant, the colour & brightness of the colouring cloth is increased and offers beautiful orange. The colourful dye extracted from bixa is non- carcinogenic. From Literature, it is seen that due to its non-toxic nature, dye is extensively used in dairy-industry for colouring butter, ghee, cheese, margarine, ice cream, chocolate, meats, cereals, confectionary, spices etc.
Botanical Name - Quercus Infectoria
Common Name - Aleppo Oak/Oak
Other Name - Manjuphal / Myrobalan
Part Used - Dried Fruit
Uses - Textile Dyeing As Tanning And Medicinal Purposes
Plantgalls are abnormal outgrowth of plant tissues caused by various parasites, particularly insects. Oak marbal galls are Chinese Sumac galls are gall on Oak and Chinese Sumac, respectively which resembles nuts and are called â??gallnutsâ?? or â??nutgallsâ??Are small tree or shrub 2-5m high, native of Greece, Asia Minor and Iran. This tree yields the Oak galls, used widely in dyeing and tanning. The galls contains tannic acid (gallotannic acid) as the principle constituent (50-70%) They contain gallic acid, ellagic acid, gum, starch, sugar and essential oils. Is used extremely for its astringent effect. The galls are said to find extensive application in tanning, dyeing, mordanting and in the manufacture of ink.When used on its own gallnut extract produces beiges on wool, cotton, silk. With an iron after bath the colour changes to grey and black. This extract can also be used to sadden other colours. Gallnut extract is also very useful for the mordanting effect of the tannic.
Botanical Name - Mulbverry Leaves
Common Name - Mulbverry Plant
Other Name - Green Plants
Part Used - Leaves
Uses - Textile Dyeing
As we know, the Chlorophyllin is responsible for the green colour of plant leaves. The extract green is produced from the leaves of green plant & grass as raw material and acidified, saponified with Copper-based salt for the green colour(Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin). The extract gives olive shade to dark green shade by adjusting the pH and dye concentration. It can provide products with good acid resistance and light resistance. Widely used in fields of frozen drinks, Processed seeds and nuts, confectionery and Dyeing of fibres etc.
Botanical Name - Onion Peel Extract
Common Name - Onion Skin
Other Name - Onion Skin
Part Used - Dried Peel
Uses - Textile Dyeing And Medicinal Purposes As Outer Skins Offer An Excellent Source Of Vitamin A, E, C And Antioxidants. It Has Abundant Flavonoids Especially Quercetin Which Acts As Antioxidant And Anti-Inflammatory.
This extract is produced with environment-friendly practices by using the waste onion skins as a raw material and then extracted with the water and alcoholic solvent for the extraction of yellow colour responsible flavonids, querctin. The extract produces brilliant yellow to Greenish shade at different pH and dye concentration (WOF) on different natural as well Synthetic fibres and also shows varied Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and C. albicans and results showed that relatively sensitive to the S. aureus and resistance towards E. coli
Botanical Name - Indigofera Tinctora
Common name - Indigo
Other Name - Indigo
Part Used - Leaves
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Pigments,Paints..Etc
Indigofera Tinctoria is also known as true Indigo, is specie of plant from the bean family which is original sources of Indigo dye. Indigo is a blue dye, which comes from the indigo (neel) plant grown in India. It is among the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing. Natural indigo is obtained by fermenting the leaves of various species of Indigof era, running off the liquor and oxidising it to precipitate the dye. The precipitated blue natural dye at the bottom is mixed with a strong base such as Sodium hydroxide and is then dried in the air to make the cake; which is subsequently dried & powdered. The powder is then mixed with various other substances to produce different shades.
Botanical Name - Butea Monosperma
Common Name - Parrot Tree
Other Name - Palash Tree
Part Used - Flowers
Uses - Textile Dyeing,Curing Eye Cataratcts,And Kidney Stones.
Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical part of the , and Nepal. It is commonly known as flame-of-the forest, bastard treak and Palash. It is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine and dyes. The flowers are used to prepare a traditional Holi colour. It is also used as dye for fabric. It belongs to the family fabaceae. In India dried leaves of Palash are used to make disposable leaf plates and leaf bowls to serve food. Its leaves are rich in glucoside, linolenic acid, oleic acid, palasitrium, burin, bucolic acid. Flowers are rich in flavonoids, triterpene, button, button, isobutrin, coreopsis, isocoreopsin and sulphurein. All the parts of plant contain various different biological activities like anti- microbial, anti-fertility, anti-helminthic, anti-diarrhoea. Nowadays Butea Monosperma is largely used as dyeing colour for fabric (colour, silk, wool) Generally alum, is used as mordant while process of dyeing flowers of B.monosperma have also been used as blood purifier and its seeds as antiseptic and antihelmentic in traditional medicine.
Botanical Name - Eupatorium
Common Name - Eupatorium
Other Name - Boneset
Part Used - Leaves
Uses - Textile Dyeing And Medicinal Purposes .
Eupatorium is product of eupatorium perfoliatum known as common boneset. It is also called agueweed, feverwort, or sweating-plant. It is nearly always found in low, wet areas. E. perfoliatum leaves and roots contain mixed phytochemicals, including polysaccharides (containing xylose and glucuronic acid), tannins, volatile oil, sesquiterpene lactones, sterols, triterpenes, alkaloids, and various flavonoids, such as quercetin, kaempferol, and caffeic acidTannin are present in eupatorium leaves and bark also. It is mostly use in traditional medicine like dengue and fever And in textile purpose. Eupatorium give a light Yellow shade on cotton with alum. Eupatorium powder Easily soluble in water.
Botanical Name - Syzyguim Cumini
Common Name - Jamun
Other Name - Black Plum, Java Plum
Part Used - Kernels
Uses - Fabric Dyeing
Syzygium cumini, commonly known as Malabar plum, Java plum, Jamun ki guthli, or black plum, is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant. It is native to the Indian Subcontinent. The extract of the fruit and seeds are found be effective against hyperglycemia in Diabetes-type2. The seeds of fruit are used in various alternative healing system like Ayurvedic treatment of anaemia, vocal related problems It is high source of vitamin A and vitamin C. In textile purpose jamun guthali give light yellow shade on normal ph.
Botanical Name - Rubia Cordifolia
Common Name - Heart Leaved Madder Root
Other Name - Manjistha, Dyers Madder, Madder
Part Used - Roots
Uses - Red Fabric Dye, Ayurvedic, Food Additives And Paper Dyeing
Rubia cardifolia commonly known as India Madder is an evergreen plant native to Himalayas. It is an economical and important source of red dye producing plant for the textile industry. The roots of Madder produce a variety of red colour includes orange reds, brick red, blood red and fiery reds. The color depends on the climatic condition of the environment where the plant grows and soil where the roots grew, their age, the mineral content of the water used for dyeing, the temperature set up of the process, on the dye pot used, and also on how much madder used relative to the fiber. Madder can be used on cotton, leather, wool and silk. Madder is one of the most valuable herb used in Ayurveda. It is known as artificial colouring agent. Ayurveda its medicinal uses are also emphasised. Madder is the best known for blood purification and helpful in curing various skin diseases.
Botanical Name - Bixa Orellana
Common Name - Annatto
Other Name - Bixin, Achiote
Part Used - Seeds
Uses - Fabric Dyeing, Antibiotics And Cardiotonic.
Achiote (Bixa Orellena) is a shrub or small tree originating from the tropical region of the America. Originally seeds of the Bixa Orellana were used to make red body pant and lipsticks as well as spice. It is best known as the sources of annatto, a natural orange red condiment. Annato is an orange-red condiment and fabric coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana). Annatto and its extracts are also used as an industrial food colouring to add yellow or orange colour. These seeds are processed to obtain the orange-yellow pigments, bixin and norbixin (carotenoids) as dyes for the food, cosmetic and soap industry. The flowers may be pink, white or purple. The paste is mainly produced by grinding the achiote seeds. Similar effects can be obtained by extracting some of the color and flavour principles from the seeds with hot water, oil, or lard, which are then added to the food or fabrics. Dyes extracted from Annatto also possess some or many medicinal and antimicrobial properties.
Iron (ferrous sulfate) is called copperas. It saddens or darken colors, bringing out green shades. Usually cotton and wool is dyed before mordanting with iron when darker shades are required.
Botanical Name - Curcuma Longa
Common Name - Yellow Zedoar/Mango Ginger
Other Name - Haldi
Part Used - Roots
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Food And Natural Paints
Turmeric is one of the oldest natural colouring agents used throughout the world from ancient time because of its unique bright yellow colour and antiseptic property too. Curcuma Longa L. belongs to the family Zingiberaceae, which is commonly known as Turmeric or Haldi. This herb is of bright yellow because it contains the Curcuminoids Curcumin, Demethoxycurcumin and Bisdemethoxycurcumin Curcumin is a diphenolic compound that exerts anti- inflammatory action. The Curcumin is the main colouring constituent of the turmeric and it is reported that its content varies from 2-8% depending on the variety and habitat. The procedure for the extraction of pure curcumin is altogether different depending upon the type of application eg. general or therapeutic purpose. The addition of natural and metallic mordants to the extracts improves the durability of the turmeric dye on the fabric.
Botanical Name - Juglans Regia
Common Name - Walnut
Other Name - Akhrot
Part Used - Shells Of Walnut
Uses - Fabric Dyeing, Cosmetics And As A Scurb.
Juglans Regia commonly known as walnut, is an old world walnut tree species native to the region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Commonly known as Walnut, it is a large deciduous tree mainly grown in poor soil. The bark of the tree is smooth, olive brown when young and silvery-grey on older branches with a rougher texture. As all walnuts, the pith of the twigs contains air spaces, which is brownish in colour. Some extracts of walnuts have in vitro antioxidant and anti proliferative activity due to its high phenolic content. Walnut is used for study different dyeing properties for different textile. The main colour component was extracted by boiling the bark powder at high temperature and then it is cooled down and filtered. The remaining residue is again heated for 2-3 times for obtaining the remaining colour component. These extracts are highly rich in colouring matter and gives different shades of brown colour while dyeing the cotton, silk and wool fabrics with the use of organic mordents. This extracts have very good light, wash and rub fastness.
