Cotton Fabrics Treatment With Gallnut Extract (Terminalia Chebula) For Improving Color Fastness Of Alizarin Dye
Siva Jagadish Kumar1, B. Venkatesh2, Ch. Govardhana Rao3, M. Ramesh Naidu4
1Siva Jagadish Kumar M*, Department of Textile Technology, Vignan‟s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India.
2B. Venkatesh, Department of Textile Technology, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India.
3Ch. Govardhana Rao Ch., Department of Textile Technology, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India.
4M Ramesh Naidu, Department of Chemical Engineering, Vignan‟s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India..

Manuscript received on November 15, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on November 23, 2019. | Manuscript published on November 30, 2019. | PP: 1520-1523 | Volume-8 Issue-4, November 2019. | Retrieval Number: D7640118419/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.D7640.118419

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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.
Keywords: Terminalia Chebula Powder, Natural Dyes, Gallnut Extract, Natural Mordanting.
Scope of the Article: Natural Language Processing.