Impacts of natural and synthetic mordants on cotton knit fabric dyed with natural dye from onion skin in perspective of eco-friendly textile process

Abstract

An important concern has been reached a growing interest in natural dyes in the textile dyeing industry for coloring fabrics due to growing environmental consciousness of preventing toxic synthetic dyes. Moreover, the use of metallic mordants does not make them entirely eco-friendly. Being aware of this, this report examines cotton knit fabric dyeing with natural mordants with dyes derived from onion skin executed using aqueous boiling technique. Diverse mordants, e.g., alum, ferrous sulphate, iron water, myrobalan, eucalyptus bark, and their combinations on cotton knit fabrics were used for pre-mordanting and together mordanting procedures. Several techniques and different types of equipment were used to measure various results. As a result, the mordanting techniques were reported to impact the outcomes of the dyeing procedure. That diverse mordants and mordanting techniques influenced the colour values produced a wide variety of gentle colors; thus, intermixing of natural and synthetic mordant gave the best result in together mordantation. Also, the pre-mordanting method gave averagely better results and dyeing properties than together mordanting, but eucalyptus gave the best results in together mordantation. Fading was found a little dissatisfactory in washing in case of natural mordants, yet staining properties were quite impressive. For other dyeing properties, satisfactory results were found for both natural and synthetic mordants. Their intermixing also contributed better results. Hence, it was evident that eucalyptus bark might be used as a suitable natural mordant for onion skin dyeing since eucalyptus showed the best result as an individual mordant or intermixing with synthetic mordant.