DYEING ABILITY OF COLORANT WHICH EXTRACT FROM TURMERIC ROOT

Abstract

This paper presents study on dyeing ability of Turmeric root with silk and
cotton woven fabric. The result shows that the colorant which extracted from
Turmeric root can dye for both silk and cotton woven fabric, with the color
fastness in grey-scale level 3-4 and 1, respectively. By using HPLC method to
check the solvent which extract from dyed cotton and silk fabric, the
appearance of curcumin peak on HPLC spectra show that curcumin have been
absorb on Silk and Cotton fabric.