"Now the popular image of most ancient and medieval clothing is typically a rather drab affair, with the poor peasantry wearing mostly dirty, drab brown clothes (often ill-fitting ones) and so it might be imagined that regular folks had little need for involved textile finishing processes or dyeing; this is quite wrong." https://acoup.blog/2021/04/02/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iva-dyed-in-the-wool/