Development of Sustainable Natural Dyed Knitted Garment Enriched With Tie & Dye Technique

The main idea of extracting dye from plants' (natural) sources is to avoid environmental pollution.Present days with global concern over the use of ecofriendly and biodegradable materials, considerable research work is being undertaken around the world on the application of natural dyes in textile industry.Synthetic dyes and all the processing used in general dyeing are harmful to our health.Dyes derived from natural plant sources have emerged as an important alternative to synthetic dyes.Dye from natural sources can reduce the risk of synthetic dyes.The dyes can be extracted from trees, barks, leaves, flowers and many more sources.Most of the natural dyes also exhibit special properties like anti-microbial, less toxicity, less allergenic, UV protection.This work is aimed to bring out ecofriendly sustainable substantial from different natural source used for extraction of natural dyes, followed by extraction process, and the properties evaluation of fabric dyed by those dyestuffs.Most of the natural dyes showed a very good fastness property in this research study.In this study Prunus dulcis (Almond middle shell), Opuntia basilaris (prickly pear), Cascabela thevetia (Yellow oleander) and Clitoria ternatea (Butterfly pea) have been used on cotton knitted SJ fabric and analyzed with fastness properties.