Textile

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.