Also worth noting that, according to @Barnes (who actually works in the cloth dyeing industry), there is absolutely no weight to the ‘realism’ argument eitther.
(One such comment is here, another here, and another here, but I recall him providing a picture of a ‘real’ dyer’s workbench of some sort, that I can’t find. Also an excellent comment on the nature of ‘realism’ from @LostBrythunian here. Not the image I was thinking of, but a good ‘more realistic’ dyer’s ‘bench’ from @Croms_Faithful here. Obviously, I’m aware that you (jmk1999) don’t need any of this, since you are already opposed to the ‘realism’ argument, but I just wanted to throw together some past comments to quash this ugly waste of time from once again raising its pointless head.)