Usability of Essential Oil Extracted Plant Pulp in Screen Printing in the Context of Sustainability

Problem statement; The main purpose of the study, "Usability of De-Essential Plant Pulp in Textile Printing in the Context of Sustainability", is to reveal the industrial use of natural dyes in the textile printing sector. During the preliminary evaluation process, it was seen that screen printing as a printing method has significant advantages for the industrial integration of natural dyes. Based on this, as a result of the applications and analyzes carried out with the experimental research method, it has been revealed that the use of natural dyes on an industrial scale will be possible by transferring the natural dye obtained from plant pulp with essential oil removed to the textile surface with the screen printing technique and ensuring sufficient fastness. In this study, it is aimed to present screen printing as an alternative to traditional fabric printing techniques, as well as to make positive contributions to sustainability by using natural dyes obtained from plant pulp. This increases the importance of the study. As a result, it has been observed that natural dyes obtained from plant pulp with essential oils removed can be transferred to the fabric by screen printing technique, and the pre-mordanting process and fixing in salt water increase the washing and rubbing fastness values. Apart from all these, three new emulsion-free printing techniques have been developed, independent of the emulsion printing technique applied as standard in screen printing technique