Fundamentals of Textile Design 3(2+1)

Lesson 25: Dyes

Mineral dyes

Tribes and nations in different parts of the world have found out the art of colouring and staining textiles with mineral compounds. Minerals provide such dyes as prussian blue, chrome yellow, and iron buff.

Iron buff Iron springs, containing iron salts in solution are found in many countries with colour sediments left when the water stands exposed to the air. Dipping clothes in these springs and then exposing them to the air dyed them in iron rust colour commonly called as “iron buff.”