Dyers bench sucks

[DanQuixote]

While it might seem this way to us ‘lay-people’ - see this post from a professional who hand dyes a lot of textiles and suggests there is no need for anything close to this size -

Dying bench, by Rube Goldberg

Jeesh I never even thought of that. It’s not a very welcoming change, is it? For the record, I am a professional dyer. We do thousands of yards of specialty textiles a year, all by hand. You can make the dyes in the space of a mortar and pestle. I won’t say how easy it is or how hard it is to dye a piece of clothing-sized material, but it does not take anywhere near the physical space of a standard armorer bench. The whole issue has been handled distastefully. Strange things bring people back…