Mother Nature has gifted us with more then 500 color giving plants. At AHL we have worked on most of them and have selected only those, which are available in abundance, cost effective, yield good color and fastness properties. Our range of Natural Dyes for Textile includes:   Natural Indigo Pomegranate Madder Kamala Lac Mayrabolan Catechu Himalayan Rubrub Natural Indigo Common Name: Natural Indigo, Indigo, Indian Indigo Botanical Name: Indigofera tinctoria Our Trade Name: INDO BLUE Natural Dye: Blue Dyestuff for Textile This is one of the most ancient Natural Dyes used by Man in textiles. Indigo is about 2-3 feet long plant, cultivated on thousands of acres of land in India. The whole plant is used for extraction of dye and the extract form of dye is supplied in powder form. This give deep blue color on wool, silk, cotton etc. It exhibits good fastness to washing, crocking and Light. This is the only Natural Dye, which falls under Vat category of dyes. We are among the largest exporter of Natural Indigo from India. Pomegranate Common Name: Pomegranate, Anaar Botanical Name: Punica granatum Our Trade Name: Mallow Natural Dye: Yellow dyestuff for Textiles. Pomegranate is one of the most largely consumed fruits in Asia. The dye is extracted from its fruit rind. The color obtained exhibit good fastness to washing rubbing and light. At times this dye is also used as mordant and is over dyed with other Natural Dye to improve fastness of later. Madder Common Name: Madder, Manjistha, Majith Botanical Name: Rubia cardifolia (Indian Madder) Rubia tinctoria (European Madder) Our Trade Name: RUBIA Natural Dye: Red, Pink and Orange dyestuff for Textiles. Madder is one of the oldest Natural Dyes. In a way Indigo and Madder are the main ancient Natural Dyes used by man for dyeing textile for ages. The cultivation of Madder needs sub topical climates and prefers moist soil. It is cultivated in the foots of Himalayas in huge quantity. We have specialized in this product. Kamala Common Name: Kamala, Kamala Powder Botanical Name: Mallotus phillipinses Our Trade Name: FLAME Natural Dye: Orange yellow or golden yellow dyestuff for Textiles. Kamala is taken from fruit of the plant Mallotus. This is an evergreen tree growing upto 25 meter high. It imparts beautiful color on wool and silk. Kamala powder was used extensively in India and neighboring southeastern countries and also enjoy export trade. However, on cotton Kamala does not give as deep color as on wool or silk.   Lac Common Name: Lac, Lac Dye Botanical Name: Kerria lacca Our Trade Name: Nimbus Natural Dye: Red & violet dyestuff for Textiles. Lac is probably most ancient of all Animal Dyes. The dye is taken from insect Kerria Lacca. This insect is cultivated on Kusumbh and Tesu trees. This has its history of use as Natural Dye in South Asia and India since the beginning of recorded History. The principal coloring component in this dye is identified as Laccaic Acid. The dye shade exhibit very good fastness to washing, rubbing and light. Mayrabolan Common Name: Harad, Harda, Botanical Name: Terminlia chebula Our Trade Name: Kareel Natural Dye: greenish yellow dyestuff and Natural Mordant for Textiles. Mayrabolan is fruit of tree Terminalia chebula. This is used as greenish yellow dyestuff for textile. This is also used as Natural Mordant in many cases. This is also used as a substitute of Tannic acid. Catechu Common Name: Cutch, Catechu, Kala Kaththa Botanical Name: Accacia catechu Our Trade Name: BEE Natural Dye: Brown dyestuff for Textiles. Catechu is purified extract of wood Accacia catechu. The plant of Accacia catechu is about 15 meter high. This mainly composed of Catechu-tannic acid with catechin, catechu red and quercetin. Catechu is among cheap Extract form of Natural Dyes it gives light brown to good brown with acceptable fastness rating. Himalayan Rubrub Common Name: Dolu, Himalayan Rubrub Botanical Name: Rhum emodin Our Trade Name: INSECT Natural Dye: Yellow dyestuff for Textiles. Dolu is about 1.5 to 3 meter high stout herb. It is grown at an altitude of about 3000 to 5000 meters high. The color is extracted from its wood. This consists of many anthraquinone derivatives based on emodin, chrysophanol, alooe-emodin and rhein. It dyes wool in range of color mainly in yellow and exhibit good fastness ratings.

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