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Watching Tudor Monastery Farm (yay comfort!) and it does totally strike me as a thought re clothing – was it just that dyes were very expensive that there isn’t (much?) dyed clothing for people or is it also a class thing? (Things I know – purple was a royal colour & cloth of gold was only for the nobility)

There were sumptuary laws that prohibited the wearing of certain fabrics and colours, yep.  There’s also the part where most dyes faded pretty quickly; the nobility loved to wear black because there was no colourfast black then, so if something was black it couldn’t be very old or washed very many times.

(Also why I always make a face when someone in The Tudors is wearing a black doublet and nothing under it–by the end of the day their skin should be stained grey.)

Wow was fur a serious mark of status! (Also velvet it seems. And oh I’m reminded of reading a book in which the peasants daughter wore green and gold)

Fur came from hunting, and hunting was also reserved exclusively for the nobility!  Which is also why in England it was deemed classy to stuff your house full of taxedermied deer heads–you had to have special status to come by that stuff.  (But I’m from North America, land of Dead by Moose, where decorating with antlers and hunting a lot is a big sign of being rural and poor, so it always takes me a minute to remember that.)

Green and yellow were super easy dyes to make.  You can dye stuff yellow with onions!  It’s really pretty.

Australia as well ‘putting animals heads on wall/hunting’ is definitely the rural/poor thing. And oh, for some reason I thought the hunting only for the nobility was not a thing (or commoners could hunt on lands that weren’t owned by anyone) – which is silly because even in Victorian England that was a thing.

OOOOH 😀 (All kinds of vegetable and flower dyes?)

(I really do want to write a thing about a tenant farmer family on one of the estates granted to Anne Boleyn now. Just because contrasts interest me)

/Babbly glee

Dyeing was one of those things I’ve always had acquaintances who were crazy about, but I’ve never been crazy about myself.  Here’s some stuff on medieval dyes:  here and here.