NATURAL DYES Edited by E. Perrin Akçakoca Kumbasar Natural Dyes Edited by E. Perrin Akçakoca Kumbasar Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. As for readers, this license allows users to download, copy and build upon published chapters even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Silvia Vlase Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer Jan Hyrat Image Copyright Luciano Mortula, 2011. Used under license from Shutterstock.com First published October, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] Natural Dyes, Edited by E. Perrin Akçakoca Kumbasar p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-783-3 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface VII Part 1 Eco-Friendly Pretreatment 1 Chapter 1 Eco-Friendly Pretreatment of Cellulosic Fabrics with Chitosan and Its Influence on Dyeing Efficiency 3 Mohamed Abd el-moneim Ramadan, Samar Samy, Marwa abdulhady and Ali Ali Hebeish Part 2 Dyeing 13 Chapter 2 Dyeing in Computer Graphics 15 Yuki Morimoto, Kenji Ono and Daisaku Arita Chapter 3 Dyeing of Textiles with Natural Dyes 29 Ashis Kumar Samanta and Adwaita Konar Chapter 4 Natural Dye from Eucalyptus Leaves and Application for Wool Fabric Dyeing by Using Padding Techniques 57 Rattanaphol Mongkholrattanasit, Jiří Kryštůfek, Jakub Wiener and Jarmila Studničková Chapter 5 Lipid Role in Wool Dyeing 79 Meritxell Martí, José Luis Parra and Luisa Coderch Chapter 6 Flame Retardancy and Dyeing Fastness of Flame Retardant Polyester Fibers 101 Seung Cheol Yang, Moo Song Kim and Maeng-Sok Kim Part 3 Surface Modification 109 Chapter 7 Protein Fibre Surface Modification 111 Jolon Dyer and Anita Grosvenor Preface As it is known dyes are colored materials that have an affinity to the substrate. Textile materials without colorants cannot be imagined and according to archaeological evidence dyeing has been widely used for over 5000 years. In the past, dyes were obtained from plants, animals or minerals. After the discovery of the first synthetic dye by W. H. Perkin in 1856, many thousands of synthetic dyes have been found and by the 1870s commercial dyeing with natural dyes was in the decline. For textile finishing processes first stage is pre-treatment. In general, dyeing and printing, chemical and mechanical finishing processes follow pre-treatment. With the development of chemical industry all finishing processes of textile materials are developing continuously and, ecological and sustainable production methods are very important nowadays. So some researchers show the ecological values of natural dye. The first section of the book “Natural Dyes” considers eco-friendly pre-treatments. The application of natural dyes and approach to ecological dyeing with natural dyes is discussed in the following section. As it is known, the efficiency of finishing treatments can change with chemical properties. Accordingly, in the last Chapter, the importance of surface modification of wool fibers is evaluated. Prof. E. Perrin Akçakoca Kumbasar Ege University Turkey Part 1 Eco-Friendly Pretreatment