Hot Spots and Trends of Textiles with Herbal Dyes

Abstract

With the strengthening of environmental awareness and the concept of health, using non-toxic and environmentally friendly herbs on textiles has become an important research issue. It has attracted increasing attention from the academic community. This study systematically reviewed and visualized 474 papers related to herbal dyeing of textiles collected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases using the bibliometric tool CiteSpace to analyze the relevant literature in the past 10 years (2015-2024). This study constructed a knowledge graph framework for herbal dyeing research, focusing on the analysis of keyword co-occurrence knowledge graph, keyword clustering, keyword prominence, Cited References and Authors Analysis, and national cooperation network. The results show that the evolution trend in the field of herbal dyeing of textiles can be summarized into four main aspects: raw materials and dyeing technology, sustainability and new mordants, functional applications and medical textiles and bioactivity. Herbal dyeing is not only an environmentally friendly alternative, but also a new textile technology that combines science and technology, functionality and medical value. This study provides data support and theoretical reference for subsequent research by sorting out the core research directions and development context in this field.