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Scope of Natural Dyes and Biomordants in Textile Industry for Cleaner Production

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Nowadays, it is obvious to everyone that the majority of synthetic dyes pose significant danger to human health since toxic elements are released during their production, use, and ultimate release into the environment. As a result, it has been argued that using natural dyes to color textiles would be a more environmentally beneficial and green alternative. In this regard, scientists have discovered and used several sources of plants, animals, and insects for dyeing fabrics to promote cleaner production. Numerous researchers are interested in natural dyes because they often have multiple benefits, including coloring, antimicrobial, UV absorption, and anti-allergic qualities. Therefore, one of the most important goals of researchers in recent decades has been the introduction of new environment friendly color compounds, investigation on their extraction, dyeing potential, and color fastness, as well as some other advantageous characteristics of these dyes. The majority of natural dyes are less fitting to bind to textile fibers. This makes the necessity of large amount of metal mordants to fix the dye on fabric. But, for the sake of the environment, natural dyes and eco-friendly mordants must be used. Biomordants offer acceptable dyeing and solidity properties and are a sustainable and environmentally responsible alternative to metal mordants. Plants having high tannin content or hyper-accumulative metal plants are sources of biomordants. This book chapter deals with classification of natural dyes and their extraction processes, dyeing application to fibers, biomordants and their use in textile industry, and advantages and disadvantages of natural dyes and biomordants. The work presented may help to promote cleaner production in textile industry.

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We gratefully acknowledge the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for supporting this work through the research grant DST/TM/WIC/WTI/2K17/82(G3).

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Balachandran, B., Sabumon, P.C. (2023). Scope of Natural Dyes and Biomordants in Textile Industry for Cleaner Production. In: Muthu, S.S. (eds) Novel Sustainable Process Alternatives for the Textiles and Fashion Industry. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35451-9_4

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