Garnet Brown Natural Dyes

Botanical Name - Acacia-Nilotica
Common Name - Bark Of Acacia
Other Name - Babool Chaal
Part Used - Trees Bark
Uses - Tanning Agent, Dyeing And Ayurvedic Remedies

The genus Acacia belongs to the family Mimosaceae Acacia, which is a very large genus containing tree, shrub and climbers. Acacia Nilotica(linn) wild exdel is known as in India as babul Kikar, Babur in Hindi. It is truly a multipurpose tree. Its timber is valued by rural folk, its leaves and pod are used as fodder and gum has number of uses. Almost every part of the babul tree is utilised for some purpose. The sapwood of babul is sharply demarcated from the heartwood and white, whitish turning pale yellow on exposure. The heartwood is pinkish brown and turns reddish brown on ageing. The bark is obtained mainly as a by-product when trees are felled for timber or fuel. Leaves of Acacia Nilotica is known as “Indian Gum Arabica”. Dye stuff from A.Nilotica is extracted by boiling the pods, leaves, barks in varying proportion and occasional additions of wood extracts. Variation in colours from yellow, to black through brown can be obtained by varying properties of leaves, pods, barks and wood extracts.