PROJECTS IN PIPELINE:

Vegetable Dyes Packages

Objective: To preserve and promote age old art of vegetable dyeing and save women from the drudgery of preparing dyes in the traditional time consuming methods of dyeing.

The National Handloom Development Centre under NWAB plays an important role in promoting the weaving activities in the Kingdom mainly focusing on the quality aspects of the handloom weaves by providing the weavers vegetable dyed yarn using the traditional methods.

Although the vegetable dyed yarn has many merits over the chemically dyed yarn, such as, colour fastness, durability and bio-degradable quality of its by-products, the main impediments in the traditional process of vegetable dyeing are that it is too laborious and time consuming.  Processed vegetable dyes are not available in the market and every weaver is required to dye yarn with the available raw materials as and when required.  And for those who do not have the knowledge of conventional vegetable dyeing which is passed from mother to daughter, the alternative is to buy vegetable dyed yarn from dyers which do not always suit the colour combinations required for the traditional textiles.

In order to overcome the hardships of the weavers, as mentioned earlier, a Vegetable Dyes Packaging Project is essential to fulfill the objectives of developing the handloom sector and to be self –sufficient in the field of vegetable dyes.