Dyer: adj. "Tinctorial" (a word from the Latin tingere: dye) describes a plant which is capable of impregnating the fibers of various textile or other materials with various colors.
The natural dyes which were, until the end of the last century, the sources of all colors, come from the vegetable kingdom as well as from the animal kingdom (molluscs for purple, insects for carmine, scarlet, etc.) and the mineral kingdom (crushing blue stones, azurite, ...
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