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What is Natural Dye

Natural Colors mean colors that have been derived directly from nature. Their purity remains intact as no synthetic additives are used Dye color obtained from natural sources such as fruit, leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, and bark of trees and some dried insects, and mineral. These dyes have been in use since antiquity. Indigo the first Natural Dye it is produced in the solid form from fermented leaves of Indigofera tinctoria. The filtration, concentration and drying of the extracted coloring matter yields Natural Dye powders with reasonable reproducibility.

Why Natral Dye?

Chemically dyed garment passes through more than 100 chemicals, where 1/3rd of chemicals are lethal which is not only effecting our body but also the environment, air, soil or water pollution. To answer the mounting questions of pollution, global warming, chemical sensitivity, allergies, the role of natural dyeing comes into the picture and it not only answers these questions but also preserves the ancient's lost legacy of doing herbal dyeing. With the advantages of skin friendly, eco friendly, after the process of dyeing we can decompose and give it back to nature, without any contamination.



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