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Thread #123229   Message #3870911
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Aug-17 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: Meaning: I'll dye my petticoat
Subject: RE: Meaning: I'll dye my petticoat
During the earlier Middle ages, the only available Dye was red and came from a mollusk. It was expensive and only royalty could afford It then. Most homespun was not dyed but was colored as raw as its fiber source.

Not true. Plant-based dyes and pigments go back to the Neolithic.

The hard-to-achieve, really expensive dye colour for mediaeval clothing was black.