Green dyeing is all-natural, fabric, dye and mordent

Document Type : Original Article

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higher institute of Applied Arts - fifth settlement

Abstract

With the increasing awareness of environment by replacing synthetic materials or chemicals by natural one due to the damage caused by these materials to the environment such as water and air pollution1. In textile industry, Synthetic dyes offer a large scale of colors and shades, obtained easily, not expensive and have good fastness properties2. On the other hand most of synthetic dyes are not biodegradable, may cause allergies, toxic and carcinogenic 3 . So that natural dye is considered a topic of international interests as it is biodegradable, non toxic, easily available, have lots of medical properties and also have wide range of shades of various hues 4.

It was one of the oldest techniques which recorded civilization of the ancient people5 .these records were found in many countries as Egypt, India and chain which had been exclusively done with natural colourants 6, 7, 8.

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