Madder Roots

Madder roots has been used since ancient times as a vegetable red dye for leather, wool, cotton and silk. For dye production, the roots are harvested after two years. The outer brown layer gives the common variety of the dye, the lower yellow layer the refined variety. The dye is fixed to the cloth with help of a mordant, most commonly alum. Madder can be fermented for dyeing as well (Fleurs de garance). In France, the remains were used to produce a spirit as well.

The roots contain the acid ruberthyrin. By drying, fermenting, or a treatment with acids, this is changed to sugar, alizarin and purpurin,
Purpurin is normally not colored, but is red when dissolved in alkaline solutions. Mixed with clay and treated with alum and ammonia, it gives a brilliant red colorant (madder lake).

Madder Root ( Rubia Tinctorum )





Definition of Madder



Madder is a perennial plant with evergreen leaves and small pale yellow flowers. The roots can be over three feet long, and are usually harvested in the second or third year of growth. Considered an ancient or heirloom dye plant; madder has been used throughout history for the brilliant orange and red hues it can produce.
Alizarin is a red dye found in the roots of the madder plant and the powdered roots are used
directly in the dyeing process.



Madder Plant



The common madder can grow up to 1.5 m in height. The evergreen leaves are approximately 5 â??10 cm long and 2â??3 cm broad, produced in whorls of 4â??7 starlike around the central stem. It climbs with tiny hooks at the leaves and stems.



Madder Root



The roots can be over a meter long, up to 12 millimeters thick and the source of red dyes known as rose madder and Turkey red. It prefers loamy soils ( sand and clay soil ) with a constant level of moisture. The root of madder is the source of Alizarin.



Color Spectrum



The Madder Roots has been used for centuries to produce a red dye to color wool, cotton, leather and other textiles.
Depending on the type of mordant used to extract and â??fixâ?? the dye, various shades can be obtained, from saffron to turkey red and madder lake.



Madder Root Powder



Madder Root Powder is an herbal powder that has been used for thousands of years to produce a red color that ranges from pink to scarlet.
We use traditional methods (Stone Mill) to prepare Madder Root Powder, which guarantees the final quality of the product.



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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.

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