Herbs
and Textile Industry
Globally,
as many countries have been enforcing a ban on textiles that have been
colored using chemical dyes, this had been a body blow to the hand loom
industry.
At the same time, textiles dyed using natural vegetable dyes, especially
medicinal plants, have been commanding a huge market due to their obvious
advantages. Nowadays much of the stress in textile industry is given on
Herbal dyes that uses only natural plants and minerals for all steps of the
production process. The advantages of the dyes extracted from the medicinal
plants origin from renewable resources, limited chemical reactions involved
in their preparation, Biodegradable properties, health curing properties,
and harmony with nature.
The traditional cotton dyeing embedded with innumerable hazardous chemicals
and pesticides pose a serious threat to the human skin and environment. A
liberal use of dangerous chemicals in the textile industry leads to severe
health problems that affect the nervous system. Alternatively, organic
cotton prohibits the use of such chemicals, with a gentle attitude towards
environment and skin. The word 'organic' denotes agricultural products that
use no synthetic chemicals or pesticides. Herbal dyeing is famous for its
Eco friendly and herbs integrated in a fabric. In this process, natural
textiles are dyed with herbs like
Turmeric, Henna,
Aloe vera, Indigo etc. In the whole
process, no chemicals are used; the textiles are 100% safe and 100% chemical
free.
Mother Herbs products in
Textile Industry
Soap nuts have become popular as an alternative to laundry detergent
among those who are trying to live in an environmental friendly style. A few
nuts can be placed in a cotton drawstring bag in with a wash load and reused
several times until the nuts turn black the natural filling has many
advantages over conventional fiberfill, foam, or feather fillings.
Buck wheat has the most important quality of
providing relief from pain. Advantages of the buckwheat hull filling are "cool
in the summer, warm in the winter" property, the ability to adjust the
size to your individual needs by removing or adding back filler so the
pillow fits you just right. The filling also lasts for many years making the
pillow the best value cervical pillow on the market. Long after other
pillows have collapsed and worn out a buckwheat hull pillow will still be
fully functional.
Buckwheat hull pillows are also
environmentally friendly.
A few of the products like
Curcuma longa, Pomegranate
seeds are widely in use for dyeing purpose. The herbs used in our
dye process are reported to have various medicinal properties. The process
attempts to keep these medicinal properties alive on the textiles. Dye
fixation is accomplished using natural and harmless resources having high
medicinal value. This process uses innovative ways to standardize the
quality and quantity of colors consistently in long running lengths.
Innovative process is capable of dying all natural textiles such as cotton,
jute, linen and silk as both woven and knit fabrics.