PEMANFAATAN KULIT BUAH KAKAO SEBAGAI PEWARNA ALAMI PADA PROSES BATIK

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Has conducted research cacao fruit skin as natural dyes in the textile batik process using cloth Primissima, cotton and silk as well as variations in the type of fixator. The results showed using alum fixation produces brown, lime fixation produces reddish-brown color, and lotus produces greenish-brown color, the color intensity according to the fixator. Pelorodan process changes the intensity of the color, the color brown fixator alum produces younger, fixator lime produces a yellowish-brown color and fixator lotus produces a  dark brown color. further research to test colorfastness to washing, to determine the nature of the erosion resistance