Colour infuses life and vitality to every day materials and makes them attractive and appealing. The natural burst of colourful flowers and varied hues of green in summer to the contrasting shades of orange and yellow in autumn, the colour in nature makes impressionable prints on our mind. How do we perceive colour? We hardly give it a thought!
Dyes and pigments brighten and add vibrancy to our lives. Though pigments have touched an average individual’s life in every possible way, they form the basis for earning the daily bread and butter for an artist or a painter. Pigments help the artist to create beautiful pictorial visions on canvas which is savoured by each and every other individual.
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One of the original vat dyes, the indigo dye has been in use around the globe for many years and generations making it one of the popularly used dyes on cotton and linen fabrics. These dyes take their name from the wood tubs known as ‘vats’ which were used for the dyeing process. The use of indigo as a dye was discovered in India where the indigo plant as well as cotton fabric was available in plenty. Let us understand the dyeing process used with regard to the indigo dye in the early periods.
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Pigments in layman’s terms are materials that possess certain properties that enable them to lend color to other materials. A lot of varieties of pigments can be found in the market what with them having a wide application in almost all spheres of life. However, the properties of each pigment determine the application for which they are most suited and selected.
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Pigments and dyes are two colorants that are being widely used in several commercial and industrial applications. Though fundamentally they come from the same building block, dyes and pigments differ from one another in one major aspect and that is dyes are soluble in the medium in which they are mixed while pigments are non-soluble.
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Where would the world of fashion be if there were no textile dyes! Glitz and color is added to the fashion ramps due to the infusion of vibrantly dyed fabrics used to clothe the models. Models attired in flashy leather jackets and boots or soothing hues showcase the creativity of various designers; their appeal and attraction however, lies in the base fabric color. It is all because of the magical effect of dyes!
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How dull and boring would life be without the world of colors! From tees to tunics, to toys and walls of your bedroom, to cakes and cookies and its packaging, color has become an integral aspect of our lives. Several applications in the industry just cannot do away with dyes and pigments which fulfill all their colorant requirements.
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Who would want to have a world without dyes? Dyes have made the textile world vibrant and colorful, giving each piece of fabric a unique personality. The dyeing process has been carried out since times immemorial; however the dyes of today are largely obtained through laboratories and factories rather than from natural sources.
Pigments have entered into every aspect of our life and made it very colorful and bright. Since the time they were naturally discovered to today’s times when they are synthetically produced in laboratories, pigments have come a long way in terms of their use and application. Today, we find that pigments have wound their way into several hundreds of applications ranging from plastics, inks, paints, textiles, soaps and detergents and many more.
Pigments are the reason for all things colorful! The bright reds of roses, dark blues of your jeans to the cheerful yellow splash in your bedroom are all a result of the existence of pigments. Pigments, by definition are substances that add color to an item. The term is quite often confused with dyes but in reality they can be said to be distant cousins. The main point of difference is that pigments can be dissolved in a liquid with the help of a binder while a dye can dissolve by itself.