DYEING FABRIC POLICY
We use Neelam color chart and the ordered fabric/s will be dyed in the same color which our customer wants after we will confirm and match the color & number which he/she will give.
If any of our customer/s does not opt Neelam Color Chart then it will be THE BEST if he/she send us a fabric swatch or color sample for better matching and duplication.
Disclaimer: These color charts are a reference guides ONLY and are not to be used for final color matching. The colors may vary based on resolution of your computer screen, your particular color printer output and other factors that cannot be controlled.
ZS Fabrics is not responsible or liable for color matches made with online color charts, photos or fabric swatches which were sent to us. Please note that there would be significant variation across the different fabrics in terms of absorption of the dye. Some fabrics just don't absorb dye as well as others because the affinity of a dye for a fabric depends on the chemical structure of the fabric.
The COLOR CHARTS below are for your reference. Please refer to the color number (including -L, -LL, -D and -DD) associated with each color while placing your order.
If any of our customer/s does not opt Neelam Color Chart then it will be THE BEST if he/she send us a fabric swatch or color sample for better matching and duplication.
Disclaimer: These color charts are a reference guides ONLY and are not to be used for final color matching. The colors may vary based on resolution of your computer screen, your particular color printer output and other factors that cannot be controlled.
ZS Fabrics is not responsible or liable for color matches made with online color charts, photos or fabric swatches which were sent to us. Please note that there would be significant variation across the different fabrics in terms of absorption of the dye. Some fabrics just don't absorb dye as well as others because the affinity of a dye for a fabric depends on the chemical structure of the fabric.
The COLOR CHARTS below are for your reference. Please refer to the color number (including -L, -LL, -D and -DD) associated with each color while placing your order.
*Please click on the row to see the NEELAM colors.
Thank you Courtesy of B.B.D. Enterprises
*Please click on the ROW #20 to view more colors: #14LL - 183; #190L - 332DD; #418 - 717 and #718 - 737.
Do you offer dyed/colored swatches?
You can get swatches of fabric/s from us only in white color because the basic reason of swatches is to feel the swatches.
You can get swatches of fabric/s from us only in white color because the basic reason of swatches is to feel the swatches.
Can you tell me how much fabric will shrink?
No, we do our best possible to minimize shrinkage, however, shrinkage varies, depending on the manufacturer. Some fabrics may shrink as much as 10%. The average amount of shrinkage is 3-6%. Natural fabrics such as Cotton, Linen, Silk, Rayon, Organics and wool are likely to shrink both in width and in length.
Organic Banana Fabric - shrinks approximately 5-8% in length after washing.
Organic Aloe Vera Fabric - shrinks approximately 4-6% in length after washing.
Organic Bamboo Fabric shrinks approximately 5-8% in length after washing.
Organic Corn Fabric shrinks approximately 3-5% in length after washing.
Organic Eucalyptus (Tencel) shrinks approximately 4-6% in length after washing.
Organic Lotus Fabric shrinks approximately 1-2% in length after washing.
Organic Milk Fabric shrinks approximately 1-2% in length after washing.
Therefore, we cannot be responsible for shrinkage!!!
We highly recommend purchasing extra yardage to allow for this shrinkage. Please adjust yardage accordingly.
Tip: It is important to test the fabrics before sewing. Please be sure to wash and dry the fabric when shrinkage is an issue. A mild soap and cold water is recommended. Never use hot water on custom dyed fabrics and spandex (Lycra) fabrics.
How long does the dyeing process takes?
2-7 days, in some cases longer. Dyeing a fabric to an exact shade sometimes requires multiple color adjustments, therefore, we cannot give an exact turn around time.
Custom dyeing - due to the process, quality dyeing and time frame limits, custom dyeing (i.e. getting the ordered fabric in any color) comes with an MOQ of 5 meters per color per fabric type wanted.
Larger dye jobs may require a deposit. Let Us Give You A Quote on your project.
The Natural Dyeing Service costs $4.50 - $8.00 per meter plus cost of fabric (this price doesn’t includes the white fabric cost!).
FABRIC DYEING PRICES:
1. Prices for Non-organic Fabrics:
• $4.50/meter charge for all fabrics except; Silk; Wool and Polyester
• $6.00/meter charge for Silk, Wool Fabric
2. Prices for Organic Fabrics
• $6.50/meter charge for all Organic Fabrics except: Organic Silk, Organic Wool.
• $8/meter charge for Organic Silk and Organic Wool.
No, we do our best possible to minimize shrinkage, however, shrinkage varies, depending on the manufacturer. Some fabrics may shrink as much as 10%. The average amount of shrinkage is 3-6%. Natural fabrics such as Cotton, Linen, Silk, Rayon, Organics and wool are likely to shrink both in width and in length.
Organic Banana Fabric - shrinks approximately 5-8% in length after washing.
Organic Aloe Vera Fabric - shrinks approximately 4-6% in length after washing.
Organic Bamboo Fabric shrinks approximately 5-8% in length after washing.
Organic Corn Fabric shrinks approximately 3-5% in length after washing.
Organic Eucalyptus (Tencel) shrinks approximately 4-6% in length after washing.
Organic Lotus Fabric shrinks approximately 1-2% in length after washing.
Organic Milk Fabric shrinks approximately 1-2% in length after washing.
Therefore, we cannot be responsible for shrinkage!!!
We highly recommend purchasing extra yardage to allow for this shrinkage. Please adjust yardage accordingly.
Tip: It is important to test the fabrics before sewing. Please be sure to wash and dry the fabric when shrinkage is an issue. A mild soap and cold water is recommended. Never use hot water on custom dyed fabrics and spandex (Lycra) fabrics.
How long does the dyeing process takes?
2-7 days, in some cases longer. Dyeing a fabric to an exact shade sometimes requires multiple color adjustments, therefore, we cannot give an exact turn around time.
Custom dyeing - due to the process, quality dyeing and time frame limits, custom dyeing (i.e. getting the ordered fabric in any color) comes with an MOQ of 5 meters per color per fabric type wanted.
Larger dye jobs may require a deposit. Let Us Give You A Quote on your project.
The Natural Dyeing Service costs $4.50 - $8.00 per meter plus cost of fabric (this price doesn’t includes the white fabric cost!).
FABRIC DYEING PRICES:
1. Prices for Non-organic Fabrics:
• $4.50/meter charge for all fabrics except; Silk; Wool and Polyester
• $6.00/meter charge for Silk, Wool Fabric
2. Prices for Organic Fabrics
• $6.50/meter charge for all Organic Fabrics except: Organic Silk, Organic Wool.
• $8/meter charge for Organic Silk and Organic Wool.
NATURAL DYEING SERVICE (LOCATION: INDIA)
We use only Natural Dyes! What are natural dyes? Natural dyes are dyes made from naturally-occurring materials – overwhelmingly from plants, but also from minerals, insects and even shellfish. Dyes are soluble and they change the color of the material they come into contact with, whereas pigments are non-soluble, requiring a binder to hold the color on the surface of a material.
There are chemicals in nature that produce colors. In plants, those chemicals might be in the leaves (e.g. weld: yellow-orange); roots (madder: red-deep pink); bark (soaked birch bark: pink-brown); flowers (marigold: yellow-orange; dyer’s chamomile: yellow-gold); or even stamens (saffron: golden yellow).
Natural dyes need to be used with mordants (from the Latin mordere – to bite). They are substances that allow the plant dyes to ‘bite’ onto the fabric, making it set, and stopping it from washing out. Examples of mordants are aluminium sulfate (alum), tannic acid (from oak bark and leaves) and oxalic acid (from rhubarb leaves). ‘Substantive’ dyes don’t need mordants, because they’re from plants that contain natural mordants – for example pomegranate skin, which contains tannic acid, and is used a lot in India to
In herb dyeing, finishing is done by sprinkling pure water on the cloth and then stretching under pressure, using hand rolls,
aloe vera, castor oil etc. Solid and liquid waste is separated through the process of filtration and used for farming purposes as manure and for watering the fields.
Natural dyes do tend to fade faster then the fiber reactive dyes but they have amazing wellness benefits and are hands down the most Eco-friendly. Natural dyes can easily be bleached by natural soaps, deodorants, and detergents and as such require more effort and mindfulness when worn and laundered. Acidic foods such as orange juice can remove natural dye colors if spilled on the naturally dyed fabric. Our dyer uses only natural dyes and natural dyes are as unpredictable as nature itself, so if you are looking for a deep saturation and dark colors with little to no imperfections and easy wash and go we recommend choosing a Low Impact dye color over our natural dyes.
Please read just an amazing article about Natural dyes below:
https://www.lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/natural-dyes/
We do a completely chemical free dyeing/very Eco-friendly (without any toxic things) (no harmful thing and no smell) and you can get your desired/ordered fabric in whatever color which you want. "Natural Dyes are not at all low-impact, depending on the specific dye and mordant (which fix the dye to the fabric) used.
Natural dyes prepared from wild plants.
Many people turn to natural dyes because they are safe and non-toxic, and mordants that are used for natural dyeing are common household materials and not seriously toxic metal. To make the colors bright and fast, natural mordants such as myrobalan, rhubarb leaves, oils, minerals, alum, iron vat etc. are used. We do not use heavy metal mordants like copper, chrome, zinc, tin etc.
The best ones to use are those made from natural materials themselves. Cotton, silk, wool and linen will take the dye the best. In fact, different shades of colors are obtained by using different plants and herbal things. For example:
(a) Grey-black: Blackberries, walnut hulls, iris root.
(b) Green: Artichokes, sorrel roots, spinach, peppermint leaves, snapdragons, lilacs, grass, nettles, plantain, peach leaves.
But natural dyes lack the vibrancy of synthetic dyes and rely on arable land to produce the base material, such as cotton, the easiest fabric for natural dyes to adhere to. Natural dyes, which come mostly from plants these days, are expensive, require larger quantities to create the same depth in color, and need mordants (which include heavy metal salts) to stick to the fabric.
Frankly speaking, the color also washes off over time, raising questions over the fabric’s sustainability.
Bleaching
Fabrics are exposed to direct sunlight and use of a natural grass base and animal manure starts the bleaching process.
WHY NATURAL DYEING? DO YOU KNOW...
Chemical dyeing processes use over 8000 different chemicals in its various stages. As high as 40 times the weight of the fabric, water is required to process the same. Most of the so-called Eco-friendly dyeing or Low- impact dyeing available on Organic Fabric as well as conventional cotton is still being dyed by using huge amounts of chemicals and dyes but in permissible limits.
Thus they may be LOW - impact but certainly not NO - impact! The Eco cycle or ORGANIC Textiles can only end with True Organic processing where the waste is reused for e.g. in the form of manure.
Natural dyeing is a practice of a society in tune with nature. No petrochemical dyes only plant extracts used as dyes, so, no water pollution, instead the waste after dyeing can be used as manure.
Medicinal properties may be acquired by fabric as many dyes have medicinally rich properties. So no to allergies, septic, cancer and bad transpiration. Unique color palate and feel of cloth that cannot be duplicated through synthetic dyes. So a new fashion trend.
There are chemicals in nature that produce colors. In plants, those chemicals might be in the leaves (e.g. weld: yellow-orange); roots (madder: red-deep pink); bark (soaked birch bark: pink-brown); flowers (marigold: yellow-orange; dyer’s chamomile: yellow-gold); or even stamens (saffron: golden yellow).
Natural dyes need to be used with mordants (from the Latin mordere – to bite). They are substances that allow the plant dyes to ‘bite’ onto the fabric, making it set, and stopping it from washing out. Examples of mordants are aluminium sulfate (alum), tannic acid (from oak bark and leaves) and oxalic acid (from rhubarb leaves). ‘Substantive’ dyes don’t need mordants, because they’re from plants that contain natural mordants – for example pomegranate skin, which contains tannic acid, and is used a lot in India to
In herb dyeing, finishing is done by sprinkling pure water on the cloth and then stretching under pressure, using hand rolls,
aloe vera, castor oil etc. Solid and liquid waste is separated through the process of filtration and used for farming purposes as manure and for watering the fields.
Natural dyes do tend to fade faster then the fiber reactive dyes but they have amazing wellness benefits and are hands down the most Eco-friendly. Natural dyes can easily be bleached by natural soaps, deodorants, and detergents and as such require more effort and mindfulness when worn and laundered. Acidic foods such as orange juice can remove natural dye colors if spilled on the naturally dyed fabric. Our dyer uses only natural dyes and natural dyes are as unpredictable as nature itself, so if you are looking for a deep saturation and dark colors with little to no imperfections and easy wash and go we recommend choosing a Low Impact dye color over our natural dyes.
Please read just an amazing article about Natural dyes below:
https://www.lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/natural-dyes/
We do a completely chemical free dyeing/very Eco-friendly (without any toxic things) (no harmful thing and no smell) and you can get your desired/ordered fabric in whatever color which you want. "Natural Dyes are not at all low-impact, depending on the specific dye and mordant (which fix the dye to the fabric) used.
Natural dyes prepared from wild plants.
Many people turn to natural dyes because they are safe and non-toxic, and mordants that are used for natural dyeing are common household materials and not seriously toxic metal. To make the colors bright and fast, natural mordants such as myrobalan, rhubarb leaves, oils, minerals, alum, iron vat etc. are used. We do not use heavy metal mordants like copper, chrome, zinc, tin etc.
The best ones to use are those made from natural materials themselves. Cotton, silk, wool and linen will take the dye the best. In fact, different shades of colors are obtained by using different plants and herbal things. For example:
(a) Grey-black: Blackberries, walnut hulls, iris root.
(b) Green: Artichokes, sorrel roots, spinach, peppermint leaves, snapdragons, lilacs, grass, nettles, plantain, peach leaves.
But natural dyes lack the vibrancy of synthetic dyes and rely on arable land to produce the base material, such as cotton, the easiest fabric for natural dyes to adhere to. Natural dyes, which come mostly from plants these days, are expensive, require larger quantities to create the same depth in color, and need mordants (which include heavy metal salts) to stick to the fabric.
Frankly speaking, the color also washes off over time, raising questions over the fabric’s sustainability.
Bleaching
Fabrics are exposed to direct sunlight and use of a natural grass base and animal manure starts the bleaching process.
WHY NATURAL DYEING? DO YOU KNOW...
Chemical dyeing processes use over 8000 different chemicals in its various stages. As high as 40 times the weight of the fabric, water is required to process the same. Most of the so-called Eco-friendly dyeing or Low- impact dyeing available on Organic Fabric as well as conventional cotton is still being dyed by using huge amounts of chemicals and dyes but in permissible limits.
Thus they may be LOW - impact but certainly not NO - impact! The Eco cycle or ORGANIC Textiles can only end with True Organic processing where the waste is reused for e.g. in the form of manure.
Natural dyeing is a practice of a society in tune with nature. No petrochemical dyes only plant extracts used as dyes, so, no water pollution, instead the waste after dyeing can be used as manure.
Medicinal properties may be acquired by fabric as many dyes have medicinally rich properties. So no to allergies, septic, cancer and bad transpiration. Unique color palate and feel of cloth that cannot be duplicated through synthetic dyes. So a new fashion trend.
Below are a few testimonials from our satisfied customers:
Madeline B.
“I received the fabric today.. I am very pleased and the dyed fabric looks great! I hope to order again for future projects.”
Madeline B.
“I received the fabric today.. I am very pleased and the dyed fabric looks great! I hope to order again for future projects.”
