Cotton Fabrics Treatment With Gallnut Extract (Terminalia Chebula) For Improving Color Fastness Of Alizarin Dye

Abstract

Terminalia Chebula Powder also known as Haritaki powder, karakai powder is one of the herbs used in ayurvedic medicine and terminalia chebula plants are classified under medicinal plants and these are specially referred as the king of medicine in Tibet. terminalia chebula is one of the popular and proven herbs for various types of medicinal properties. In the recent fashion of utilizing the natural and conventional techniques for modern-day usage, the karakai powder is also being used for textile applications, especially in the dyeing with natural coloring to textile goods. In this present work, the karakai powder is used as one of the mordant along with alum and other mordants for treating cotton fabrics, and these fabrics are dyed with alizarin natural dye and studied with K/S values, color fastening to washing and rubbing were studied and found improvements by application of Terminalia Chebula Powder in both pre mordanting and meta mordanting methods.