Fabrics, textiles, or other goods that have been dyed or are intended for dyeing; merchandise related to the dyeing trade.
From dye plus ware (goods or merchandise), a compound used in medieval and early modern English to denote commercially dyed textiles. The term appears in guild regulations and trade documents.
Medieval merchants would have kept inventories of dyeware—fabric that was already dyed and ready to sell—and the quality of the dyeing affected its value significantly, so dyers' reputations were everything.
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