Spoorthi Kulkarni completed a chemistry project on dyeing fabrics with malachite green. The project involved dyeing wool and cotton cloth directly with the dye as well as using mordants like sodium carbonate, tannic acid, and tartaric acid for indirect cotton dyeing. Direct dyeing of wool produced a fast color while direct cotton dyeing resulted in a color that was not fast to washing and had low intensity. Indirect cotton dyeing using mordants produced a fast, high intensity color. The conclusion was that indirect dyeing is needed for cotton to produce a durable color from malachite green dye.