The dyer

From Hans Sachs, Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stande auf Erden (1568). Reproduced in Shakespeare's England.

Like brewing and weaving, dyeing had recently been a cottage industry under the supervision of women, but was becoming increasingly a profession for men. Here is a recipe for a housewife still interested in dyeing cloth:

To dye wool black

First then to dye wool black, you shall take two pound of galls*, and bruise them, then take half so much of the best green copperas, and boil them both together in two gallons of running water; then shall you put your wool therein and boil it; so done, take it forth and dry it.
From Gervase Markham, The English Housewife (1615).