The Aura Natural Dye Process

All together, there are about 7 processes used to produce textiles.  Even though dyeing is just one of these steps, we do not use any chemicals at any stage of our process.  The conventional textile production process uses approximately 8000 chemicals throughout the process to produce a final textile product. The typical textile process steps are:

Growing
Sizing
Scouring
Bleaching
Dyeing & Printing
Dye Fixing
Finishing

Our partner in India, Aura Herbal Wear, has developed and patented a Herbal Dye process that uses only natural plants and minerals for all 7 steps of the production process.  In fact, the effluent generated from the dye process is used to irrigate a garden behind the facility that grows the herbs required in the dye process.  Here are some characteristics of our natural dye process.

For a list of the typical herbs used in our dye process and their properties, check out our herbal dye materials page.

Innovations of Herbal Dyeing
	Only natural sources such as flowers, roots, stems, etc are used in all seven steps in the process.
	Application uses natural ingredients alone
	The herbs used in our dye process are purported to have various medicinal properties.  Our process attempts to keep these medicinal properties alive on the textiles.
	Dye fixation is accomplished using natural and harmless resources like harda (high medicinal value), sumack leaves, begar, dhavdi, etc.
	Our process uses innovative ways to standardize the quality and quantity of colors consistently in long running lengths.
	Even, plain dyed colors are possible in quantity.
	Present capacity is up to 2000 meters/day with a large expansion project underway.  Mass production is possible by integrating our innovative natural dyeing techniques with conventional equipment while maintaining the natural properties of herbal dyeing.
	Innovative process is capable of dying all natural textiles such as cotton, jute, linen and silk as both woven and knit fabrics.
	Fully sustainable process uses the solid and liquid waste as manure and to irrigate soil used to produce natural herbs.
	Mass production quantities may result in lower cost than existing natural textiles processes.