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DYER. Two barrels stand in the southwest corner. More than two
dozen large glass jars are near the west wall. There are twelve
large vats, a few dozen buckets and several stirring sticks. A pump
faucet is against the south wall and the stone floor is equipped with
drains in case of spills. Clotheslines stretch across the room.
The
barrels contain tannic acid and alum for use as a mordant. The glass
jars hold colored extracts made from sassafras, oak bark, walnut,
madder, weld, indigo, beets, logwood and various berries and leaves.
The
skeletal corpse of a well-dressed man is curled up in the southwest
corner behind one of the vats. A hand axe is buried in his back. He
wears an ivory brooch valued at 100 gold crescents and he has a pouch
containing 8 gold crescents and 21 silver spanners.
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