Abstract:

The dye extracted from palas flower petals has been used on cotton fabric and a comparative study is carried out for conventional exhaust dyeing against the pad dyeing. For these two methods, combination of experiments has been conducted for three typical mordanting methods with four different mordants. In conventional dyeing method, at three different temperatures (60Ëš, 80Ëš and 100ËšC), more uneven dyeing is observed. Hence, to overcome this problem, padding method is tried for 5, 15 and 30 min steaming time.