
Natural Dyes for Textiles
Sources, Chemistry and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Written by an expert author with many years of experience in researching and writing on natural textile dyes
- Provides quantitative information about extraction and fastness properties that will be valuable to those involved in dye selection
- Offers complete and practical coverage of the whole dyeing process from source selection to post-treatments
Readership
Textile colorists from industry and academia, including dye technicians, and those engaged in textile dye research and development
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Newer natural dye sources suitable for cotton fabrics, silk fabrics, and wool yarns
Chapter 2: Isolation and characterization of the colorant molecules from each dye plant
Chapter 3: Structure-mordant interactions, replacement by biomordants and enzymes
Chapter 4: Dyeing application of each dye on cotton, silk and wool with fastness properties, CIELab values and shade card
Chapter 5: Innovative dye extraction methods
Chapter 6: Unique pretreatments and post treatments for natural dyeing
Product details
- No. of pages: 238
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: June 12, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081012741
- eBook ISBN: 9780081018842