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Botanical Name - Butea MonospermaCommon Name - Parrot TreeOther Name - Palash TreePart Used - FlowersUses - Textile Dyeing, Curing Eye Cataracts, And Kidney Stones.

Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical part of the India Subcontinent and SouthEast Asia, ranging across India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. It is commonly known as flame-of-the forest, 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 barefaced. 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 Indian traditional medicine.

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 onemain 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 - 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 India 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 Indian 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.

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 - 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

Gallnut is a group of very special 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.

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 - 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 - 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 - Pterocarpus Santal
Common Name - Red Sandalwood
Other Name - Laal Chandan, Sandal Red
Part Used - Sandal Wood
Uses - Textile Dyeing, Ayurvedic Medicine And Food Colour

Pterocarpus Santalinus, with its familiar names red sanders, red sandalwood, and saunderswood, is a species obtained from Pterocarpus endemic of the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range of South India. These are valued for producing rich bright red colour extracted from its wood. These are generally used as dye stuff for dyeing of Silk, Wool and Cotton fibre and fabrics. Shades can be adjusted accordingly by adding mordants to that. Alum and Stannous Chloride are used as pre-mordant and ammonia after baths provide Rich Red hue as a dye. It is renowned for its characteristic timber of exquisite colour and beauty. The red sandalwood has natural hue i.e. Santalin, which is used as colouring agent in pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs. Traditionally Pterocarpus Santalinus is used as herbal medicine as antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and anthelmintic.

Botanical Name - Onosma HispidumCommon Name - Purging NutOther Name - Physic Nut, Barbados NutPart Used - Trees Bark & WoodUses - Textile Dyeing, Ayurveda-Syphilis And Leprosy
Onosma Hispidum is commonly known as Ratanjot. These are obtained from the Western Himalayas from Kashmir and Kuman. 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 - 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 Himalayas and Southwest china. 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.

Heena dye prepared from the plant lawsonia inermis also known as the heena tree or mehndi. Heena has been used since antiquity to dye skin, hair, fingers, as well as including silk wool and leather. The leaf of the henna plant contain a finite amount of lawsone molecule. Colors of heena leaves depend on quality of heena leaves and also metal, oil, other ingredients. By adding mordant Like chrome, ferrous, and alum shade are different . heena 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 .

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 - 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.

Botanical Name -Rheum Emido
Common Name - Indian 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 Indian 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 antibacterial 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 - Punica Granatum
Common Name - Pomegranate
Other Name - Pomegranate
Part Used - Fruit Rind
Uses - Textile Dye, Natural Mordant And Ayurveda

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, dysentary and intestinal parasites. The major colouring components in pomegranate are 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 - Laccifer Laca [Keer]
Common Name - Shellac
Other Name - Lac
Part Used - Trees Bark
Uses - Fabric Dyeing, Pharmaceuticals, Food Colouring, Perfume Industry, And Painting

Kerria Lacca is specie of insect in the family Kerriidae, the lac insects. Lac dye was derived from the dried bodies of the East Indian insect, Dactylopins coccus. After the insect bodies had formed a thick gummy red coating on the twigs, the twigs are broken off and sun dried to kill the insects. Lac dye is the scarlet pigment present in the live, pre-emergent insects (Laccifer Lacca/Kerria Lacca) which develops in a resinous coccon, known as stickler. It is widely known for secreting lac, a commercially important scarlet substance that is used for dyeing wool and silk, and also used in cosmetic industry and medicinal drug. Kerria lacca insects inhabit trees in colonies of thousands and secrete the resinous substance. Kerria lacca excreta are used as lac dye. This is a natural red dye and is produced by washing the raw stick lac by water and then precipitating the filtered wash liquor with acid.

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 South America. Their notoriously dense wood earned them a name derived from the spanish 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.

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 india is a largest producer of indigo (neel).

Botanical Name - Caesalpinia Sappan
Common Name - Sappan Wood
Other Name - Sappanwood, Patang Lakdi, Sappan
Part Used - Sappan Wood And Bark
Uses - Textile Dyeing

Caesalpinia Sappan commonly known as Sappan wood. It belongs to the Gulmohar family. It is a small thorny tree. It is also known as Patranga, which is one of the most important herbs in Ayurvedic medicine system. Caesalpinia Sappan belongs to plant family Fabaceae (Leguminosae). It is a multipurpose tree, which is also used for medicinal, cosmetic purposes and as a safe natural colouring agent. Sappan wood is one of the most widely used plant dye, which plays a predominant role in red colour for dyeing textiles. With the variation of the pH of the dye bath by the addition of mordants the dye produces hue from pink to red colour. By combining different metallic mordants like chrome alum, ferrous alum with dye it displays good fastness towards washing. It also has some medicinal properties such as anti-inflammatory activity.