Substantive Dye

Substantive dye is a dye used in a process in which dye molecules are attracted by physical forces at the molecular level to the textile. The amount of this attraction is known as "substantivity": the higher the substantivity the greater the attraction of the dye for the fiber. Substansive dyes work best on textiles with high contents of fibrous cellulose and are set in a slightly basic or neutral environment at high temperatures close to boiling point. Substansive dyes are set by hydrogen bonding.

Dyeing

Techniques	Batik Dyeing Kalamkari Katazome Leheria Mordant Reactive dye printing Resist Ring dyeing Rōketsuzome Shibori Tie-dye Tsutsugaki

Types of dyes	Dyes Natural Acid Reactive Solvent Substantive Sulfur Vat Disperse

Traditional textile dyes	Black walnut Bloodroot Brazilin Cochineal Cudbear Cutch Dyewoods Fustic Henna Indigo Kermes Logwood Madder Polish cochineal Saffron Turmeric Tyrian purple Weld Woad

History	Trade and use of saffron Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands

Craft dyes	Dylon Procion Rit

Reference	Glossary of dyeing terms List of dyes

Famous quotes containing the word dye:

“It will help me nothing
To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
Which makes my whit’st part black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)