PREPARATION OF DYES WITH VEGETABLES

A CHEMISTRY PROJECT REPORT

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my

chemistry teacher as well as my principal who gave me the
golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic
“Preparation of dyes with vegetables”, which also helped me
in doing a lot of Research and I came to know about so many
new things.
I am really thankful to them.
Secondly I would also like to thank my parents and friends
who helped me a lot in finalizing this project within the
limited time frame
ABSTRACT

This is an experiment to dye the fabric clothes (cotton , linen ,

nylon ,etc). The dyes are made up of the concentrated coloured
solution of vegetables . Also some other chemicals are used to
prepare the dyes to prevent the fading of the the colour from
the clothes.

The reason why I have selected this topic is that

because it’s very interesting to dye clothes using those
natural colours which are already available at home.
There are a plenty of colours in our kitchen itself which
we don’t even know like red cabbage, onion peel ,
turmeric , beetroot , spinach , etc.
SR.NO TOPIC PAGE
1. INTRODUCTION

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENT

3. APPLICATION

4. REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION

For thousands of years, dyes were created by using natural materials like leaves, roots, bark,
and flowers. Some of the most beautiful and longest lasting coloured fabrics were created with
those natural dyes. Today, most fabrics and fibres are dyed with synthetic dyes that create
reliable and easy to repeat results. The liquid synthetic dyes you can buy for home use involve
fewer steps than naturally created dyes.

Part of the joy of creating your own dye are the happy mistakes and surprises that can come by
combining plant material and mordants. A mordant is a substance used to permanently bond
dyes on fabrics or create a chemical reaction to create new colours. Mordants include alum,
sodium chloride (table salt) and certain metal salts like iron, copper, and tin.

The general process is this: Choose what you would like to dye and dyes, prepare it for
dyeing (also known as scour and mordant), then dye and wash. Some of these words might
not mean anything at this point (scour and mordant!?), but by the end of this post, you’ll be
able to throw them around with ease. You’ll know more about natural dyeing than most
people and have resources at your hands should you want to try it.

The following substances has the following chemicals or colouring agents:

Turmeric : curcumin (yellow colour)

Red cabbage : anthocyanin (red colour)

Spinach : chlorophyll (green colour)

 DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENT

AIM: To dye fabrics with dyes made up of vegetables and

and hence prevent the fading of the colour from the

cloth by using mordants.

APPARATUS:

Dry turmeric powder, water, potash alum, white

cloth.

PROCEDURE:

1.The cloth which has to be dyed is soaked in water and

heated to simmer.

2.To the same some measured amount of potash alum is

added .

3.Then in another vessel a little amount of the natural dyeing

substance was added ( turmeric, coffee, red cabbage, beetroot,
etc ) is added.
4.In the same vessel water was added and heated .

5.Till the solution becomes concentrated it was heated.

6.Then the solution was filtered

7.Then the cloth was soaked in the solution for a few hours.

8.It must be stirred constantly once in every five minutes for

equal distribution of the dye.

9.Even in the dyeing process the mordant is added.

10.After dyeing again the cloth is rinsed in the solution of

mordant.
RESULT:

Thus, the cloth has been dyed successfully.

 APPLICATIONS

Natural dyes comprises of those colourants (dyes and

pigments) that are obtained from animal or vegetable matter
without chemical processing. They are mainly mordant dyes
although some vat, solvent, pigment, and acid types are known.

Natural dyes find use in the colouration of textiles, foods,

drugs, and cosmetics. Small quantities of dyes are also used in
colouration of paper, leather, shoe polish, wood, cane, candles,
etc. In the earlier days, dyes were derived only from natural
sources. But natural dyes suffer from certain inherent
disadvantages of standardized application and the
standardization of the dye itself as dyes collected from similar
plants or natural sources are influenced and subjected to the
vagaries of climate, soil, cultivation methods etc. Hence for the
natural dyes to be truly commercialsed and to take a
competitive place with respect to the synthetic dyes, the
standardization methods play a very significant and vital role.
In this paper we shall indicate some conventional and often
used methods of application, the identification methods and
also standardization process of the natural dyes.
 REFERENCES

• https://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-
article/5367/natural-dyes-application-identification-
and-standardization

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordant

• https://www.slideshare.net/sheshir/mordant-dyes