NATURAL AND ECO-FRIENDLY APPAREL MADE FROM HANDLOOM FABRICS

Abstract

Handloom is the traditional device of manufacturing simple and decorative fabrics meant mostly for apparel and home fumishing in our country and has boen playing a major rolo for the oconomic development of rural sectors by the way of gonerating employment potential. Handloom tself is an eco friendly process of manufacturing fabrics and hence use of natural dyes in presence or absence of diterent innocuous inorganic salts really completes sustainable textiles. The strength of handloom lies in introducing designs which cannot be replicated by the power loom sector. Handloom weavers with their skillful blending of myths, faiths, symbols and imagination provide the fabric an appoaling dynamism. Eco-friendly collection of apparels/gaments is made trom natural dyed yarms. It is also the fundamental requirement that coloured toxtiles should withstand the conditions encountered during processing and subsequent usage and hence assessment of different colourfastness properties viz. washing, light and rubbing, are also assessed and reported in this study. In viow of the use of various salts at concentrations much below their respectivo maximum permissible limits, such apparols/garments ocan also be considered as eco-friendly product and 1s worth labeled as eco-textile.