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Extracting Biodye From Caselpenia pulcherrima, Rosy perwinkle, Clytostoma callestigoides Flowers

Hemalatha R

Abstract


The panoramic beauty nature is copious by the flowers. The flowers are now being used as a dyeing agent. The trend of biodyeing has an age old history. There is unique flora and fauna in India. Nature provides us immense number of flora and has unique advantages of it. One among the significant aspect of flora is production of biodye. The current study focuses on an approach to extract the biodye from Caselpenia pulcherrima, Rosy perwinkle, Clytostoma callestigoides flowers, and to identify whether flower extract can produce the dye in the different fabric majorly cotton, silk and wool.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijbb.v3i1.188

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