National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Natural dyes are sustainable and renewable. This can provide employment to agricultural growers and indigenous peoples and will lead to utilization of wastes. They provide beautiful colour in ecological home fashions for environmentally concerned consumers. In present investigation cotton fabric was dyed with banana petaloids in the form of fresh flowers using pseudo stem sap, alum and tealeaves as mordants. The evaluation of colour strength (λ max, 470), visual evaluation and colour fastness tests for mordanted and dyed samples were carried out. Dyeing along with mordanting techniques which include pre, simultaneous and post mordanting was carried out. A comparison of different methods of mordanting shows that colour strength for the simultaneous mordanted dyed fabric is higher than other mordanting methods. Large range of Worn white, Greenplay gray, Banana cream and Lemon blamcolours were obtained because of varying mordant combination and their ratios. The light, washing, rubbing and perspiration fastness of dyed samples were also evaluated, giving fair range of good fastness grades. Thus banana bio waste can be successfully utilized for enrichment of textiles. It is easy in application as well as safe for the environment.
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