Crafty Brown Natural Dyes

Juglans Regia commonly known as walnut, is an old world walnut tree species native to the region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and Southwest china. Commonly known as Walnut, it is a large deciduous tree mainly grown in poor soil. The bark of the tree is smooth, olive brown when young and silvery-grey on older branches with a rougher texture. As all walnuts, the pith of the twigs contains air spaces, which is brownish in colour. Some extracts of walnuts have in vitro antioxidant and anti proliferative activity due to its high phenolic content.  Walnut is used for study different dyeing properties for different textile. The main colour component was extracted by boiling the bark powder at high temperature and then it is cooled down and filtered. The remaining residue is again heated for 2-3 times for obtaining the remaining colour component. These extracts are highly rich in colouring matter and gives different shades of brown colour while dyeing the cotton, silk and wool fabrics with the use of organic mordents. This extracts have very good light, wash and rub fastness.