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Since pre-historic times plants were useful for a human beings to fulfill most of their basic and other needs. Besides basic and important needs plants has been used for natural dyeing before recorded history, colouring properties of various local plants were known to our ancestors to obtain and retain the colour from the plant throughout the past period. Plants from adjoining areas are used to enhance the life of people through the decoration of animal skin, fabric, craft, hair, and even their bodies. Some of the local plants, when used for dying purpose, did not require the addition of any substance for the attachment of dye to fiber. Based on colour properties various types of dye-yielding plants are available like orange dyes, yellow dyes, red dyes, purple/ blue dyes, green dyes, grey dyes, and black dyes. Traditionally these dyes were extracted from various plant parts like bark, stem, leaves, flowers, rhizome, root, and seeds. The present study includes 35 different plants available from local areas and which are used traditionally for dyeing purposes by the local people. In the present study only plant-based dyes are extracted from various plant parts. In a present study, detailed information regarding the utilization of these plants for purpose of dye is mentioned along with their photographic images.