dyeing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of dye

noun

1. The act by which something is dyed.
   Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change. 1930, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Standards journal of research, volume 3, page 50
   In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […] 2013, Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, page 52