Blueberries were used to test the solution concentration, dyeing temperature, and pH concentration on cotton, linen, wool, and silk fabrics, which are natural fibers, as an eco-friendly method for slow fashion. In blueberry dyeing, cotton, linen, wool, and silk fabrics were commonly found to have better dyeing properties as the solution concentration increased, and overall, they were found to have the most stable and excellent dyeing properties at pH 3. Cotton and linen fabrics had better dyeing properties as the dyeing temperature decreases. Cotton fabrics represent various colors of green, purple, and blue depending on the dyeing conditions, and linen fabrics represent purple colors. The higher the dyeing temperature, the better the dyeing properties of wool and silk fabrics have better dyeing properties. The surface color of wool represents a brown color with yellow. In silk fabrics, the pH concentration is a very important factor rather than the solution concentration and the dyeing temperature, and the surface color ranges from red-purple to brown colors. Cotton, linen, wool, and silk fabrics all have a low grade of fade in colorfastness to washing, but the stain is all excellent in grades 4-5. Colorfastness to rubbing was found to be quite excellent, and Colorfastness to light was found to have a low overall grade.
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