Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Natural dye printing with Eclipta prostrata on Cotton
Author(s): Padma Alapati and Khateeja Sulthana Shaik
Abstract: Eclipta Prostrata is considered as weed plant by many farmers in India. And it is also used by many folks as herbal source to dye hair, and to treat skin, fever, wounds, etc. Considering its dye efficiency, the present study is taken up to treat the cotton fabric with Eclipta Prostrata plant dye. Very good color strength was observed, from the research, and gave ocher and black shades with the use of different mordants (SnCl2 and FeSO4). The dye is fixed with two types of gum sources, Cassia tora (CT) (2.5% and 5%) and Mango kernel (MT) (3 and 5%) in two percentages, among which cassia tora gum have good affinity to dyes. Both gums sources are have shown good penetration on cotton fabric with block and screen printing methods. However, 2.5% CT and 3 % MT gum concentrations are good for block printing; where as 5% concentration of both gums is giving accurate design outline for screen printed samples. The samples have shown good acceptance by the costumers through visual evaluation and colorfastness analysis.
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Padma Alapati, Khateeja Sulthana Shaik. Natural dye printing with Eclipta prostrata on Cotton. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):135-140.
