there was cloth for purchase of every weave and color imaginable. Of reds alone, there numbered several shades, and the best, the most blinding vermilions, hailed from the guilds of Italy, particularly Florence.
There was no good red dye in Europe in 1422. Before synthetics, the first good red dye was cochineal, a polymer produced by a beetle found only the the Americas. It wasn't until the 16th century that it reached Europe.
