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In recent years, the textile industry must go towards developing of new technologies to reduce the energy and water consumption. The use of microwave in textile wet processing is one way for this purpose. The advantages of microwaves, which it is use much less liquid, they can exhaust or save dyes and leave no waste of liquid dye compared to conventional methods. Microwave dyeing has other advantages such as less power consumption, easy production of desired shades, and quick dyeing.

On the other hand natural dyes have been used since ancient times for coloring and printing fabrics. Several studies on the application of natural dyes have been reported (Hebeish et al., 2012) to protect the environment for indiscriminate exploitation and pollution by industries. Recently, the potentiality of using natural dyes in textile coloration as UV-protection and anti microbial has been investigated (Ali et al., 2011)