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Dye medallion
Dye

Dye

Dyeing cloth often touches transformation by colour — the deliberate changing of a hue, where the shade decides the fortune. The dream may ask what you're altering the appearance of, whether the new colour you take on is bright and prosperous or shadowed toward sorrow, and how willingly you're letting yourself be steeped in change.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dye, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To see the dyeing of cloth or garments in process, your bad or good luck depends on the color. Blues, reds and gold, indicate prosperity; black and white, indicate sorrow in all forms.