A cloth with a floral pattern, just out of the dyeing vats, was to become an informal court robe for Genji himself.

May also be used as a dyeing vat, containment basin, fish-breeding tank, storage tub, or garden pond.

Dyeing vats were spotted at Arikamedu.

Dyeing vats bubbled away.

Spinning whorls, cotton seeds, remains of a woven cotton cloth and dyeing vats provide evidence for the activities of the textile industry.

It was not unusual that he, an outcast, should be working for the rabbi who had proscribed him; at the dyeing vats Abraham's father used slaves who were not Jewish, and other Jews hired pagans who still worshiped Baal and Jupiter on the high places back of town.