Natural dye plants in Savaştepe (Balıkesir, Turkey)

Abstract

Natural dyes are recently becoming object of consumer interests because of the harmful effects of the synthetic dyes. The dyeing with natural colourants was one of the oldest techniques practiced by the ancient civilization people. An ethnobotanical study was conducted between 2012 and 2015 in order to determine wild plants used in Savaştepe. Savaştepe is a town and district of Balıkesir Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. With this study, we aimed to document traditional uses of dye plants in Savaştepe (Balıkesir). According to the results of the identification, 15 species belonging to 12 families were used as dye source. Used parts of plants were flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, seeds and galls.

Keywords

• Ethnobotany,natural dye,Savaştepe,Balıkesir,Turkey

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